24 hours to end of PVC registration, Abuja residents blast INEC over inability to register

Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja on Friday expressed anger over their inability to register for the Permanent Voter Cards, PVC.

In what appears to be a last-minute rush, many residents thronged Continuous Voters Registration, CVR centres on Friday to register for the PVC ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Across the nation’s capital on Friday, many registration centres were overcrowded with persons struggling to get their PVCs, raising fears that many people may not be registered.

DAILY POST visited some of the registration centres in the city particularly, within the Bwari Area Council.

Amongst the hundreds of persons who stormed the CVR centre in Bwari, only a few were able to get captured following low input by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC officials.

As of 2pm when DAILY POST visited the Bwari centre, only about 60 persons had successfully registered despite the teeming crowd.

Our correspondent gathered that the centre became rowdy at about 10am when residents waiting to register became upset that the few available INEC officials could not attend to them.

The centre had just two computers used for the registration at the Bwari INEC office, DAILY POST can report.

One Mr Cletus Chukwu who was angered over the slow pace of the exercise told our correspondent that his attempt to get registered since Monday had failed.

He said, “I have been coming here since Monday this week.

“Every day, I come to this centre early in the morning still, I have not been able to register. Many of us are definitely going to be disenfranchised because, with the way things are going, it will be very impossible for some of us to participate in the election.

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