Abia voters lament as INEC officials abandon PVC collection centres

Eligible voters successful Umuahia, Abia State, person expressed choler and disappointment aft failing to cod their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) connected the archetypal time of the nationwide postulation exercise.

The voters accused officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of abandoning designated postulation centres earlier the scheduled closing time, contempt the value of obtaining the cards up of the 2027 wide elections.

According to Vanguard, nary INEC officials were contiguous astatine Ugba Primary School, Umuahia, erstwhile its analogous visited astir 2pm connected Friday.

A akin concern was observed astatine School Road Primary School astatine astir 2:42pm, wherever nary electoral officials were seen. Enquiries indicated that the officials who had earlier arrived for the workout had already left.

One of the affected voters, Innocent Odoenelam, a nonmigratory of World Bank Housing Estate, Umuahia, said helium rushed to the centre aft proceeding a vigor announcement that the PVCs were acceptable for collection, lone to observe that officials had closed for the day.

Odoenelam, who arrived astatine astir 2:30pm, described the acquisition arsenic discouraging, peculiarly due to the fact that the authoritative closing clip was 3pm.

He urged INEC to guarantee that its unit stay astatine designated centres passim the stipulated postulation hours, informing that difficulties successful re...