INEC promise to do its best ahead of 2019 poll - Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would continue to do its best to ensure that registered voters collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) ahead of 2019 elections.
Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, gave the assurance in an interview with our reporters on Monday in Abuja.
Yakubu recalled that over seven million PVCs were not collected from the 2015 general elections.
“We have been trying our best but so far only a little over 500,000 cards have been collected nationwide.
“We will continue to do whatever we can to ensure that the cards were collected ahead of the next general elections,” he said, adding that the commission was emphasizing on collection than distribution.
According to Yakubu, we are emphasizing on collection because we want the true owners of the cards to collect them rather than by proxy with the possibility that the cards may end up in wrong hands.
On whether the commission would patronize domestic printers in the printing of ballot papers for 2019 elections, he said “the first priority of INEC has been to patronize indigenous printers.
“Since the 2015 general elections INEC has conducted elections in 180 constituencies and in none of these constituencies were the sensitive and non-sensitive materials printed out of the country.

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