The Independent National Electoral Commission has given reasons for the unavailability of the permanent voter card for some residents in the Oshodi-Isolo local government area of Lagos state.
The commission noted that the majority of those whose PVCs are not available did multiple registrations for their voter cards.
Olusegun Agbaje, INEC’s resident electoral commissioner disclosed this on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television.
The INEC REC said a lot of people who migrated from the southeast zone of the country to Lagos did a fresh registration instead of doing a transfer of their polling units to the state.
“At Oshodi-Isolo LGA, we had a lot of people that migrated from the south-east and they wanted to vote in Lagos,” he said.
“During our registration last year, instead of doing a transfer from the area (south-east zone), what they did was to do a fresh registration.
“Those who did transfer got their PVCs but those who did fresh registration apparently it amounted to double registration and they could not get their PVCs.”
