The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, has stopped
the November 29, 2014 sanitation exercise, scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday in
Lagos and nationwide to afford Lagosians to collect their Permanent Voters Card
(PVC) at various parts of the state, reports NaijaAgroNet.
This coming as NaijaAgroNet
gathered that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has
rescheduled the distribution of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in nine local
governments in Lagos State and other states that were left out in the recently
concluded third phase of the programme.
Others affected states include Nasarawa, Niger, Kaduna, Katsina,
Borno, Rivers, where PVCs are yet to be distributed and the Continuous Voter
Registration (CVR) exercise pending.
PVC distribution is slated to take place in Rivers, Nasarawa
and nine other local governments in News Express reports that Lagos State from
Friday, November 28 – Sunday, November 30, while CVR would take place from
Wednesday December 3 – Monday December 8, 2014.
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has cancelled
this month’s sanitation exercise, which should have taken place tomorrow, to
enable people go and collect their cards.
Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Prof.
Attahiru Jega, said in a statement in
Abuja that the commission met with
leaders of registered political parties to present a progress report on the
production of PVCs and also to explain lingering challenges necessitating
readjustments in the previously announced schedule.
Isaac Oyimah with additional report from NewsExpress.
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