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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Fumes Over Attack On Igbos In Lagos Over PVC

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Fumes Over Attack On Igbos In Lagos Over PVC

Apex socio-cultural organisation of all Igbo people worldwide, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has declared that it will not condone mindless and unprovoked attacks on her people in Lagos State for trying to register and secure their Permanent Voters Card (PVC).

The group consequently condemned the reported attack on the people of South-East residents in the state which occurred on Thursday.

In a reaction through a statement by its President-General, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike and made available to Africa Daily News, New York in Abuja, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide said Ndigbo should not be pushed beyond the walls.

He said: ‘Several

2023 Polls 20 Million PVCs Still Uncollected, INEC Laments

2023 Polls: 20 Million PVCs Still Uncollected, INEC Laments

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decried the high number of uncollected Permanent Voters Card (PVCs), putting the figure at about 20 million.

INEC National Commissioner of FCT, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau States, Mohammed Haruna, disclosed this yesterday at the launch of a campaign to drive the collection of PVCs and increase participation in the ongoing continuous voter registration exercise.

He disclosed that statistics by INEC in 2019 showed that over 84 million PVCs were printed.

Of the figure, the INEC Commissioner explained that over 72 million were collected while over 11 million voter cards were left uncollected.

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