VP Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide Okeke Ogene Urges Registered Voters to“ Collect PVC

Registered voters in the Southeast Zone have been urged to collect their permanent voter’s cards ahead of the 2023 General Elections.

Speaking in Awka the Vice President of Ọhaneze Ndigbo worldwide, Chief Damian Okeke Ogene expressed worry that less than two months to the elections, many registered voters are yet to collect their Permanent Voters Cards.

Chief Okeke Ogene said that everybody above eighteen years should see participation in the electoral process as a civic responsibility and pointed out that collection of their PVCs would ensure that they equip themselves properly to take ownership of the country and contribute in enthroning good and people-oriented governance.

He urged the governments of the South East Zone, traditional rulers and Presidents General of town unions to put in place measures that would make presentation of PVCs a requisite for certain privileges including empowerment programmes.