Pvcs: Utomi Pushes INEC To Postpone The Deadline On January 29

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been urged by the Prof. Pat Utomi-led Big Tent Coalition of political parties and civil society organizations for Obi-Datti to extend the Jan. 29 deadline for collecting Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the organization is supporting Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, and Dr. Yusuf Datti, who is running as his running mate.

In order to encourage a culture of cleanliness of the mind, body, and environment, Utomi issued this clarion cry on Saturday at the Big Tent’s grassroots engagement for the ObiDatti movement with a new iteration of the “Clean-Up Nigeria Project” in Lagos.

Utomi said that there was no “justification for halting the PVC collecting operation when a lot of individuals had not collected theirs, despite making reasonable attempts,” in a statement by Mr. Charles Odibo, Director of Media and Communications for the Big Tent.

According to a respected political economist, INEC must live up to its name by making sure that none of its employees work with political outlaws to unintentionally deny millions of Nigerians their right to vote.

According to evidence we have, millions of Nigerians are being intentionally denied the right to vote by having their PVCs withheld. Every registered voter must be given the chance to pick up their PVC, according to INEC’s regulations.

The INEC employee working out of Falomo Primary School in Ikoyi, Lagos, has been absent from their station for the last three days, and this is a common occurrence.

Therefore, he suggested that INEC seek assistance from organizations headed by the commercial sector, such as chambers of commerce, the Economic Summit Group, and civil society organizations, for the task of distributing PVCs.