Worried by the poor distribution of the Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs, in Rivers State, a group known as the United Community Development Committee, UCDC, has hinted at the possibility of embarking on a statewide demonstration to register its dissatisfaction with the way and manner the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC ,was handling the PVCs against the backdrop of the limited time available before the February Presidential election.
Coordinator of the group, Mr. John Onwubualili, at a summit of Community Development Committees, CDCs, in Ulakwo, Etche Local Government Area recently called on INEC to ensure that no eligible voter in the state got disenfranchised by making the distribution of PVCs more effective.
The state coordinator charged other arms of the UCDC in the LGA to be proactive in mobilizing their communities for the re-election of Governor Nyesom Wike.
The UCDC coordinator noted that the Governor Wike had not disappointed Etche people in the area of project execution, and called on the group to lend their support in all ramifications. He stated that their support would be necessary to reciprocate the governor’s good works.
He listed some of the projects initiated by the governor to include Chococho-Igwruta Road, Ulakwo-Afara-Nihi Road, Igbo Chococho- Umuechem Road, Nihi- Akpokwu-Umuoye Road, besides the appointment of worthy Etche sons and daughters to positions of responsibility.
Onwabualili, however, seized the occasion to make a passionate appeal to the governor to consider the construction of Egwi-Igbodo Road as well as rehabilitation of the Community Secondary School, Umuozochi, which he noted had produced many personalities in and outside Etche community.
It would be recalled that some eligible voters in the state had called on the INEC to devise means of making their PVCs easily accessible. Those concerned had expressed the fear that if the exercise remained tardy the way it is presently, many would be unable to exercise their voting right.
