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INEC: More Than 200,000 PVCs Uncollected In Adamawa

"I don’t think collecting the PVC will make any difference for me in 2019, and so I decided not to punish myself by abandoning my business to go and queue for endless hours," a resident stated.

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More than 200,000 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) have not been collected by eligible voters in Adamawa State, SaharaReporters can report.

Ibrahim Gaidam, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Adamawa State, made the disclosure, while confirming that voter registration ends today.

Some voters, who spoke to SaharaReporters revealed reasons they decided to abandon the PVCs, with many claiming that the election seemed like an already decided exercise.

Yusuf Musa, a resident of Yola, who expressed dissatisfaction with the state of the economy, said: "I don’t think collecting the PVC will make any difference for me in 2019, and so I decided not to punish myself by abandoning my business to go and queue for endless hours.

"This is because there's tangible desperation in the air; I don't see how possible it is going to be for any party to remove this government through the ballot; this is my belief.

"For instance, the Ekiti experience is enough for any discerning mind to know that these people are bent on holding onto power, whether by hook or by crook.

"Another reason they will do anything humanly possible to retain power is because President Buhari will want to prove Obasanjo wrong; and this clearly speaks volumes of many desperate measures in the offing.

"I wouldn't want to talk too much; we are all witnesses to how 30,000 armed personnel were moved to Ekiti in a desperate move to win at all costs; when the actual war zone is the North-East.

"Therefore, for me, it will be more tortuous to participate in the election simply to add credibility to the process, because I'm convinced there will be rigging, come what may.”

Meanwhile, the REC has assured Nigerians that INEC has improved and will deliver "free, fair and credible elections in 2019".

Accordingly, Gaidam called on all those who have registered in the past to "come forward and pick up their PVCs".

On ending the voter registration today, Gaidam said: "We are not ending the registration; instead, we are temporarily suspending registration".

He further explained that the commission has more than one million registered voters for the 2019 polls.

SaharaReporters can confirm that 200,000 votes are a little below the winning ballot in Adamawa State.

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