Over 600, 000 permanent voter’s cards (PVCs) are currently lying fallow in Ogun State.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun spoke yesterday while addressing journalists at the state’s office of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abeokuta, the state capital, stressing that there are about 625,000 PVCs, which carried the state code, but with photographs that do not match the faces of registered residents in the wards where they were displayed.

Amosun specifically mentioned that at Ward 11 in Ita-Eko area of Abeokuta where former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the governor registered, a lot of PVCs taken there for distribution have the state code, but no one could identify the images on them.

The governor expressed shock in the slow distribution of PVCs in the state by INEC, disclosing that initially, about 1.8 million people registered during the exercise, but INEC removed over 500,000 for double registration and other reasons.

He added that after the registration exercise was re-conducted, about 450,000 registered, but only 159,000 PVCs have been distributed, emphasising that only 40 per cent of the 1.8 million people who registered have collected their cards across the state.

Amosun disclosed that he wrote a letter to Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, on December 15, 2014 and its receipt was acknowledged on December 19, but no reply has been received from the agency.

“There appears that someone in Abuja is behind the slow distribution of PVCs in Ogun State. There are no PVCs brought to Imeko Afon, Ado-Odo/Ota, Yewa, Sagamu, Odogbolu and some other parts of the state.”

He, however, said the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Timothy Ibitoye, has always assured him that the PVCs would be brought in time.