2023: CPPM APPLAUDS INEC FOR EXTENDING THE PVC COLLECTION DEADLINE

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for collecting Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) by one more week. The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM), a civil society organization, applauded this decision and urged Nigerians to take advantage of the extension period to collect their PVCs so they can cast ballots in the general elections of 2023.
It should be remembered that INEC extended the due date to Sunday, February 5, 2023 from the original date of January 29, 2023, when PVC collection was to end.
This praise was given by the organization’s executive director, Nelson Nelson Ekujumi, on Wednesday in a statement made accessible to press reporters in Lagos.

“For its patriotism and dedication to participatory democracy by extending by one more week for PVC collecting to allow for more people to be able to exercise their franchise in the 2023 General Elections,” the CPPM, in particular, commended INEC.
The Civil Society Group urged Nigerians not to “miss the Golden opportunity of being active deciders of the political destiny of Nigeria by ensuring that they collect their PVCs,” and also urged them to maintain faith in democracy and disregard the despicable behavior of agents of destabilization, whose only goal was to sow chaos through lies, falsehood, and misinformation regarding the collection of PVC and the 2023 elections.

The CPPM also urged INEC to resist being sidetracked by the plans of anti-democracy plotters who had already failed and would continue to fail the country’s democratic transition.