Traders Intensify Efforts To Procure Permanent Voter Cards Amidst Attacks By Hoodlums

In a video that went viral, an announcer was seeing going round the Alaba International Market, Lagos, and other markets in the South East zone, asking the traders to go an obtain their PVCs.

The announcer maintained that a day would come when the market would be closed  to enable the traders to go and obtain their PVCs, maintaining that showing their PVCs upon demand by the market leadership might be a condition for doing business in the markets henceforth.

A trader, Mr Daniel Sampson, who spoke with our correspondent said: “Peter Obi is our member. He was a trader before he became Anambra State governor. He is still a trader. He knows our problems, particularly as it concerns import and export trade.

“So, we will give him maximum cooperation in the election. Besides, he has enormous capacity and knowledge on how to reposition Nigeria. He is our choice and the choice of most Nigerians in this project.

Similarly, the South East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association has enjoined its members to go and obtain their PVCs.

In a statement signed by the Associations’ President General and Secretary-General, Chief Gozie Akudolu and Alex Okwudili, respectively, the group said traders and their apprentices (who are of voting age) must obtain their PVCs in the circumstances.

The group’s statement reads in part:

“To this effect, the association is further directing traders in all markets in Nigeria, as a matter of urgency, mandated all traders together with all apprentices who are up to 18 years and above, who are without voter’s cards to hurry to INEC registration centres close to them to register and collect their permanent voter’s cards.

“Those who registered around the markets but their residences are not close to the market, should use this opportunity to transfer to polling units close to them to enable them to vote with ease during elections.

“The Association directs that this information be given wide publicity in all the markets across the states and in Nigeria at large.” There has been an upsurge of youths in INEC offices across the country seeking to register and obtain their PVCs

(New Telegraph)