2023: Reno Omokri Lists Two Ways To Speed Up PVC Collection

Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has listed two ways in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can speed up the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVC).

Naija News reported that the Commission had extended the deadline for the collection of PVC by one week after it had earlier fixed the collection deadline as Sunday, 22nd January 2023.

In a statement issued on Thursday, INEC spokesman, Festus Okoye, said following a meeting on Thursday, the commission has pushed the deadline by eight days to ensure that registered voters have ample opportunity to collect their PVCs ahead of the forthcoming election.

Okoye disclosed that the commission has now extended the date of collection from January 22nd to January 29th, 2023 between the hours of 9am and 3pm, Monday to Sunday.

He said that the collection at the Registration Area (Ward) level is extended by one a week from Monday, January 16th to Sunday, January 22, 2023.

The INEC spokesman added that the collection at the Local Government level will resume from Monday, January 23rd to  Sunday 29th, January 2023.

Reacting in a series of tweets on Thursday night, Omokri advised INEC to work with commercial banks by depositing PVCs in customers’ vaults and sending an SMS to those who haven’t collected their PVCs to get them at their local bank branch.

The controversial author also urged the electoral umpire to employ the model of going from house to house to distribute PVCs to Nigerians who have not collected theirs.

He wrote: “Almost every Nigerian that registered to vote has a phone and bank account. @INECNigeria can speed up PVC collection by working with banks to deposit PVCs in their vaults and send an SMS to those who haven’t collected their PVCs to get them at their local bank branch.

“As a child in Nigeria, NEPA (now PHCN) officials went house to house distributing bills. Nigeria has 133 multidimensionally poor people who can’t afford transport fares to go to INEC to collect their PVCs.  @INECNigeria could employ the NEPA model and take it to them!”