The Agege Local Government Area, Lagos State, has commenced sensitisation campaign to mobilise residents of the state to collect their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) for the 2023 general elections and other elections that will come afterward.
The Vice-Chairman of the council, Oluwagbenga Abiola, talking on the sideline of a pro-APC mega rally at the Agege Stadium in Lagos on Sunday, noted that INEC said 37,832 of 60,370 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for new registrants are still uncollected in Lagos State, six months after distribution commenced.
INEC had said that the old PVCs collected up till October 21 was 5,644,239 while the total uncollected old PVCs as at the same time is 926,052.
The commission noted that the total uncollected new PVCs as at October 21, is 37,832.
Abiola, Convener of the Obasa Youths Crusade (OYC), said the campaign was part of the programme against uncollected voters cards at the designated collection points in the state.
“This campaign is part of our awareness programme on PVC collection and several youths have come today with their voters cards.
“Firstly, the youths have come out with their PVCs to declare supports for our Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, and the Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa.
“The youths are now going back to their various communities to inform their neighbours on the need to collect their PVCs in various local governments and collection points in the state.
“This is an opportunity for people that are yet to collect their voters card in order to cast their votes for all our party’s Candidate in the forthcoming election,” the Convener said.
Abiola promised Tinubu that the campaign group would secure five million votes, while in Agege, the group would get more than 200,000 votes in the 2023 election.
According to him, “With the huge gathering we have seen today, if over 40,000 can come out with their PVCs and they can bring just 10 people each on the election day to vote then you know what will happen.”
The convener assured that Tinubu would defeat other presidential candidates to emerge as the president, while Obasa would speak again in 2023.