2027: 116,745 PVCs yet to be collected by newly registered voters in Lagos - INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed that 116,745 Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, belonging to recently registered voters successful Lagos State are yet to beryllium collected by their owners.

The commission’s Administrative Secretary successful Lagos, Mrs Adenike Tadese, made this known successful an interrogation with newsmen connected Friday.

Tadese said INEC had received a full of 177,295 PVCs for eligible residents who registered during the archetypal signifier of the Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, workout conducted successful 2025.

She explained that the commission’s play records arsenic of Monday indicated that 60,550 of the cards had been collected, leaving 116,745 awaiting postulation astatine its offices crossed the state.

According to her, the ample fig of uncollected PVCs could impact information successful the 2027 wide elections if their owners failed to retrieve them earlier the postulation workout ended.

She said registered voters could get their cards from INEC offices successful their respective section authorities areas, stressing that postulation indispensable beryllium done personally and not done representatives.

“The cards are disposable for postulation by their owners, not by proxy, astatine the assorted section authorities offices of the committee successful La...