Yiaga Africa urges Sokoto electorate to utilise ward level distribution of PVCs
An NGO, Yiaga Africa, has called on the electorate in Sokoto State to maximally utilise the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) at the ward levels to obtain their cards.
The Voice Media Trust (VMT NEWS) reports that the NGO being supported by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through an activity tagged ‘’ Power of Sixteen’’, organised a voter sensitization rally on Tuesday in Sokoto.
The Programme Coordinator, Mrs Manira Tukur, said that the rally was convened with the aim of reminding people of their constitutional rights which can only be exercise through the voter cards.
Tukur said: “As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) started the distribution of PVCs at ward levels, people who are yet to collect theirs in the state should utilise the windows.”
She called on the people to use the prime time and collect their PVCs before the expiration of the deadline.
Tukur enjoined the electorate in the state to come out en masse and collect the cards just as she called in them to cast their votes wisely.
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Also speaking, a Sokoto-based activist, Yusuf Ladan described as harmful, the reluctant habit of many Nigerians who were not doing things at the time they were expected.
Ladan decried: “The people have not previously been collecting their PVCs untill the deadline was about to elapse.$
He said that such attitude had been affecting the schedule of activities of the electoral body.
In their separate remarks, Malama Saadatu Abubakar and Hafsat Adamu called on people with disabilities not to allow themselves to be disenfranchised.
They said that obtaining the PVC was the only panacea to resolving the political and leadership challenges bedevilling the country.
VMT NEWS reports that the rally was attended by civil society organisations, people living with disabilities, youth, women as well as media.
Yiaga Africa urges Sokoto electorate to utilise ward level distribution of PVCs
