The governor of delta state has
declared March 6 work free day to enable civil servants to collect their
Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) before the March 8 deadline.
The governor made the declaration on
Wednesday during the State Executive Council meeting in Asaba.
The pronouncement came after the
INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Elder Aniede Ikiowak, led other staff
members to demonstrate use of card reader at the meeting.
He urged INEC to extend the
demonstration of the card readers across the state, especially the hard to
reach areas to erase their doubts about the process.
According to the governor, a lot of
people have doubts about the PVCs and the use of the card readers.
“I know there are a lot of people
who are very apprehensive and what our people are saying is that you
demonstrate the use of the card readers’’, he said.
The governor said that based on INEC
report, about 405,000 PVC’s were yet to be distributed out of about 2.2 million
printed for the state.
“And we have till Sunday to collect
these cards. So, I have decided to make Friday work-free to enable the people
to collect their PVC’s before Sunday’’, he said.
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