This followed series of meetings of relevant stakeholders and sensitisation for the government officials, traditional institutions and general public across the three senatorial districts of the state.
The state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Segun Agbaje, told the forum of the need to replace the old temporary card with new Permanent Voter’s Card which contained the biodata of the holders.
Agbaje explained that the step taken was curbed the incident multiple voting, adding the card is designed with card reader machine which bring out the information about the individual voters.
As part of efforts to ensure that those registered with temporary voter’s card are issued the permanent ones, the Kogi State government declared yesterday a public holiday in the state to enable civil servants collect their PVC at different register centres. Saturday Mirror monitored the commencement of the Distribution of PVC in Lokoja.
It was observed that INEC officers reported to various polling units early and attended to those who came to collect their cards.
Meanwhile Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State has appealed to the people of state to come out in large numbers for the collection permanent voter’s card and continuous registration exercise currently going on throughout the country.
Wada made the call while monitoring the exercise, yesterday, in Lokoja.
