PDP demands extension of time for PVC collection

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the collection of Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) by three days.

The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, said in a statement on Wednesday that the demand was predicated on reports across the nation that some “compromised INEC officials” at the collection centres were deliberately refusing to issue the PVCs to voters.

“The PDP believes that this deliberate refusal to release the PVCs is part of the wider plot by the APC to disenfranchise millions of Nigerians and frustrate their eagerness to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari at the February 16 presidential election and elect-in the peoples’ candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

“The PDP demands explanation from INEC for turning back registered voters who went to collect their PVCs and directing them to come at a later date for an exercise that is programmed to end on Friday.

“Information available to us shows that the APC has plans to use the uncollected PVCs to allocate votes to President Buhari.

“The PDP therefore calls on the leadership of INEC not to plunge the election into a needless controversy but to redeem itself by extending the closing date for the collection of the PVCs by three days,” the party said.