The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday ended abruptly the ongoing Continuous Voters Card (CVR) registration in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), over crowd disturbance.
The Commission’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in the FCT, Yahaya Bello, while speaking on the development, lamented that people who had no business with the CVR process stormed the office to cause a commotion, forcing the Commission to stop the process for the time being.
However, many Abuja residents alleged that INEC was making it difficult for them to be registered for the CVR card. They argued that they left their homes as early as 4 a.m for them to be registered, only for “INEC to announce they were not working today”.
The residents were seen hitting the INEC office gate shouting: “We want our PVCs”, while some of them lay on the road threatening not to leave until they get their PVCs, thereby, obstructing the movement of cars.
Many of the residents said they had registered and wanted to collect their PVCs, while many others want to do fresh registration.
