Rivers state has the highest number of missing permanent voters card. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Rivers, about 14,000 PVC’s have been snatched and stolen.
Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Gesila Khan, disclosed this on Friday, January 30, in Port Harcourt, saying that some of the missing cards were stolen at the local government collection centers where they were kept to be distributed.
She appealed to those with the cards to return them, stressing that they were useless to the thieves. She said the electoral body was going to make use a new device called card readers to identify owners of PVC before they can be used to vote.
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