Indigenes
and residents of Bayelsa State on Saturday turned out en masse at
collections centres for the Permanent Voter Cards to beat the Sunday
deadline by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Bayelsa
State Government, led by the State Governor, Seriake Dickson, and the
pro-Jonathan group, Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, embarked on
last-minute sensitisation to woo eligible voters to collect their PVCs.
Traditional
rulers were not left out as they provided some logistics for officials
of INEC in their domains to aid performance and issuance of voter cards
to indigenes.
A visit to
some parts of the state showed an increase in the number of eligible
voters coming out to collect their cards six days before the
presidential elections.
Commenting
on the development, Coordinator of TAN, Bayelsa State, Wenipire
Seibarugu, said the rate of collection of the PVCs had improved.
He,
however, urged the INEC to ensure that PVCs for all registered voters in
the state were made available for collection to avoid being
disenfranchised.
Seibarugu,
who was a Deputy Governor in the State, said TAN would work with all
critical stakeholders in Bayelsa to ensure President Goodluck Jonathan
got 100 per cent of the votes at the poll.
According
to him, Bayelsans have no choice but to come out en masse and vote for
President Jonathan, adding that voting for him is a duty every Bayelsan
owes him as a worthy Ijaw person.
Seibarugu,
in reacting to criticisms against the Jonathan administration, said he
(Jonathan) had performed creditably well and deserved massive support
from Nigerians irrespective of political affiliations.
He noted that when re-elected, Jonathan would place Nigeria within the top 10 economies in the world.
He urged
Bayelsans to take advantage of the extension of the collection of the
PVCs and ensure that they collect their PVCs to vote for President
Jonathan.
Seibarugu commended Mrs. Patience Jonathan for mobilising Nigerian women to vote massively for Jonathan.
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