“With the 389,000 uncollected PVCS and the registration of over 569,000 new registrants, we will have about 1 million PVCs waiting to be collected before the 2023 General Elections.”
“Today Kaduna State has 47 per cent of women in appointive positions,” Mrs Maikudi said.
INEC Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) which started on June 28, 2021 was initially billed to end on June 30 before it was extended to July 31.
In separate interviews on Sunday in Kuje, the residents said those willing to register had been coming out in large numbers in vain.
The CSOs urged INEC to magnanimously consider extending the deadline for the exercise in favour of the 2023 general elections.
Priority was being given to persons with disabilities, the elderly and pregnant women.
The politician said beneficiaries went through “an extensive training” on how to run a POS business.
INEC commissioner Sam Olumekun said that priority was being given to the elderly, pregnant women and those who are physically challenged.
Civil servants in the state are asked to use Thursday and Friday to obtain their PVCs.
NAWOJ urged Mr Buhari’s regime “to urgently set up a mechanism to check the rate of inflation and the high cost of living in the country.”
