The Independent National Electoral Commission’s resident electoral commissioner in Osun State, Dr. Mutiu Agboke, has announced on Saturday that the commission has received 5306 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System in total for use in the 2023 elections.
Speaking at an INEC awareness campaign for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards in the state that was organized in Osogbo in partnership with the non-governmental organization Power Of PVC Ride, Agboke also stated that the commission has started training its employees in advance of the election.
He said, “We have received 5, 306 BVAS, we are ready, we are charging, configurating, training our staff and partnering with stakeholders day in, day out and we have always been engaging our stakeholders.”
He added, “So there’s need for us to scale up the level of awareness to go and collect PVCs. For example when I resumed in Osun, we had 408,197 PVCs and between December 12 and 17, only 1,032 electorates have gone to collect their cards.
“As I speak to you now, we have 407,165, if we have over 400,000 PVCs and only 1,000 have gone to collect, it means we have not done anything. It means people have not really come out. So first thing we have to do is to scale up our level of awareness.”
