Supporters at the rally said that they were excited at the huge turnout of Nigerians of different demography who joined the movement.
JDPC placed the demands as part of the resolutions reached at a media roundtable it organised on Wednesday in Ibadan.
Only 16,000 PVCs from the 56,000 cards printed by the electoral body between June and December 2021 were collected.
One hundred and eighty-seven candidates from 12 political parties are jostling for the 25 Cross River House of Assembly seats in the 2023 general elections.
Of the figure, 7,828,570 were youths, 2,192,897 were middle aged, and 871,690 were elderly, while 117,962 of the registrants were old.
“Civil servants and public office holders are therefore urged to use this opportunity to ensure that they obtain the PVC.”
The community leaders pledged to sensitise and mobilise their subjects on the importance of obtaining voter cards.
The IGP says the deployment was not to intimidate residents but to prevent the election process from being hijacked.
“The statistics from the zone on the registration is worrisome. As leaders, we feel there is the need to do everything to correct it…to set up what we call special room.”
INEC recently expressed concern over the low turnout of residents for the registration across the newly created 1,750 polling units in Katsina.
