The Independent National Electoral Commission, says distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) will begin in January 2023.
It also said it would obey the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja on extension of the CVR.
Addressing newsmen at a Youth Vote Count awareness campaign in Abuja, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Yahaya Bello, said only PVCs for Nigerians who registered in 2011, 2014 and 2019 are ready for collection.
Bello said INEC would support the initiative by deploying more than 50 voter registration machines at the venue, including 150 staff.
He explained: “The CVR will end on June 30, by our own policy. However, the PVCs will not be ready immediately until after the exercise. It is after the exercise that INEC will have time to clean the data.
“Right now the PVCs that are being collected are for those who did their registration in 2011, 2014 and 2019, which we have printed. I want to make it very clear so that people will know that all those that are partaking in this exercise now, if it ends on June 30, will not be able to collect these cards.
“It is a process, and the timeframe will allow us to print these cards, and the collection will not be done until the first month of 2023. Also, PVCs will be collected by persons who registered, not by proxy”.
