As part of the campaign to promote the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVC), the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kwara State, Malam Garba Attahiru-Madami, on Friday, visited the Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria Central Mosque in Ilorin to enlighten the Muslim faithful.  

Attahiru-Madami, who also worshipped at the mosque, pleaded with those that had not collected their PVC to do so to enable them exercise their civic duties during the forthcoming general polls.

According to him, there still remained 298, 852 PVCs yet to be collected from the 1, 406, 457 registered PVCs in the state.

The REC said a total of 1, 101, 605 PVCs had so far been collected, adding that his target was to ensure that not less than 255, 000 PVCs were collected on or before the Feb. 8 deadline.

Stating that his visit to the mosque was to mobilise the people to collect their PVCs and to take the message home for those that had not done so.

Reports also disclosed that the Resident Electoral Commissioner would visit two churches in Ilorin on Sunday to mobilise Christians for the elections.

While the REC pleads to all Muslims in the state to pray for peace before, during and after the general elections.

“I call on all Muslims to pray to Allah for peace to reign in the state during the coming elections; peace is very important for the elections,” he said.