PHOTOS: Large turnout, slow pace as INEC begins PVC distribution at ward level

Prospective voters, on Friday, trooped to registration areas/wards across the country to collect their permanent voter cards (PVCs).

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, on Thursday, announced that it would devolve PVC collection to the 8,809 registration areas/wards from January 6 to January 15, 2023, after which the exercise will revert to the LGA offices until January 22 when the process will end.

TheCable visited wards in Lagos, Abuja, and Kogi on Friday to observe the process.

At around 10am in Methodist Primary School, Oshodi, Lagos, many applicants were waiting in a queue to get their PVCs.

The collection was very slow as only one INEC official and a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) were attending to the crowd.

Some applicants were, however, asked to return on subsequent dates because their PVCs could not be found among those available.

Miles away in GSS Gwarimpa Life  Camp in the federal capital territory (FCT), TheCable observed that the exercise was peaceful and organised.

In Lokoja, Kogi state, INEC officials told TheCable that two wards were merged and moved to another location near the palace of the Maigari of Lokoja.

On getting to the said location at around 12pm, INEC officials were found to have set up camp under a tree in front of the palace, with only a few prospective voters around.

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