The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), in Anambra state, Dr Elizabeth Agwu has vowed to deploy spiritual and physical powers to make sure that anyone involved in electoral malpractice in the 2023 general in the State did not go unpunished.
The INEC boss who spoke in a meeting with major stakeholders in the state towards making sure that voters were properly mobilised to participate in the poll, however, assured that the Commission was committed to providing equal opportunities to all political parties and their candidates to test their popularity among the voters.
She decried the reluctance of some registered voters in the state to go for collection of their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, stating for instance that there were over 7,000 uncollected PVCs Njikoka local government area alone adding that a similar situation obtained in most other 20 local government areas in the state.
She pleaded with the stakeholders which included representatives of the state traditional rulers council, religious organizations ( Christians and Muslims), students Union, political party leaders, National Orientation Agency, National Youth Service Corp, transport unions, civil society organisations, Inter-party Advisory Council, IPAC, etc, to assist in mobilising the voters to go and collect their PVCs promising that their offices at the various local governments would be open 24 hours from Monday to Friday.
