The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has planned to kick-start the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council elections for the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to eligible registrants beginning from March 4.
The election proper is scheduled to hold on March 19 this year even as the distribution of PVC will be conducted up ti March 10.
A statement from INEC said that the seven-day exercise has been scheduled by the Commission to enable all who had registered in the last Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise to collect their PVCs and to participate in the Area Council elections.
It said that the PVCs will be distributed at the Polling Units (PUs) for the first three days of the exercise, while distribution will be done at the Ward level for the last four days from 9am to 4pm daily during the exercise.
The Commission also said that at the expiration of the 7-day exercise, distribution of PVCs will continue at the Area Council level from March 14 to 16.
It said that some of the approved modalities for the distribution of PVCs in the FCT are:
· Collection of PVC is NOT by proxy;
· A registrant shall present himself/herself to the Distribution Officer (DO) who checks the Distribution List to ensure his/her name is on the list;
· The DO shall check the stack of PVCs to ensure the card is available;
· The DO shall retrieve the Temporary Voter Card (TVC) and handover the PVC to the registrant who shall be requested to thumbprint and sign the appropriate portion of the Distribution List;
· Cases of lost or defaced PVCs shall be recorded on the incident forms;
· Cases of names on the Distribution List but card not found and vice-versa shall also be recorded on the incident forms;
· Distribution Officers shall also document and handle cases (if any) of returned PVCs from the public;
· The Electoral Officer shall supervise the exercise in his/her Local Government Area. [myad]
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