As the 2023 election draws near, the need to get PVC by most Nigerians has become apparent. Recently, news hit the media waves that the National Electoral Commission faced an upsurge unlike anything they are used to. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, in the third quarter of the current Continuous Voter Registration…
Dr. Nkwachukwu Orji, who is the state’s resident electoral commissioner at Awka, noted that an increase in the number of prospective registrants has put a significant strain on the Commission’s ability and resources. In order to handle the increase in potential voters for the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration drive in Anambra State, the Independent INEC has established 25 more registration centres, bringing the total to 87.
The INEC officials on ground were dilly dallying and more interested in threatening us, telling us they would not attend to us if we did not move back. ” In her wait, she recounts, “I met an old acquaintance who said he’d been there since 7am and was not certain how the INEC staff were working since they were not saying anything.” I exchanged numbers with a woman and a man who brought his three daughters to register and were not aware of the online registration platform, which I shared with them.
The International Centre for Investigative Report notes based on their findings that getting a PVC has gotten difficult, according to several of the potential voters who spoke with the ICIR at the Ojo INEC office in Igbede, Lagos. Similarly, in the Old Parade Ground in Abuja, while thousands are locked outside the gate, thousands more are seated inside waiting to be attended to. And as they hoped for a positive outcome, Maria said she had a “smooth registration” process and that this was because of her “connect”. She said tagging along with a colleague made the seamless experience she had.
Again, some of them were instructed to obtain forms from the office and manually fill them out if they had not registered online when the site opened for registration. A site which Beauty describes as not being “user friendly” and “inactive”“I just wished they would get to my turn because I got there around nine o’clock in the morning. And it looked like there was no way that I was going inside the office. So I have not gone.
Confusing..not sure
Make this things easy na
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