Alake Pleads For Uncollected PVC

Oba Gbadebo & Olori Tokunbo Gbadebo

Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, the Alake and Paramount of Egbaland, said that his wife is yet to collect her Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) ahead of the March/April elections.
He made this appeal to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) while receiving in his Palace at Ake, Abeokuta, a delegation of the Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Timothy Ibitoye, the Administrative Secretary, Atiba Dickson, among others from the state headquarters Daily Independent Reports.


Oba Gbadebo explained that at the time of registering for the PVCs, he’d gone to the nearest centre where he and his wife registered for the cards but lamented that INEC had since been unable to make her PVC available for collection.

He said about 300,000 registered voters in Egbaland are yet to collect their PVCs, urging the commission to make them available for collection to enable the people exercise their rights to elect leaders of their choice.

Alake, however, remarked that despite Egba’s numerical strength, it has less representation at the National Assembly, compared to others areas.

He hinted that Egbaland deserves more local government areas than the existing six on ground, just as he pointed out that it requires better and more political delineation to enable the area have more representatives at the National Assembly.

“I registered with my Olori; my card is here and her card is not here. We don’t want it to be like the biblical story of we will take one and leave the other.

“In Egbaland, our people are still almost 300,000 that have no PVCs; people are going to their various centres and are not seeing their cards. Maybe you have to re-double your publicity. We are praying for you and we pray that you will succeed.

“We also have other problems to discuss with your body and with the delineation body that will come later. In Egba Traditional Council area (Ogun Central), we are over 45 per cent of Ogun state (population). We don’t have the number of local governments that befits us.”

It will be recalled that, INEC recently, revealed statistics that showed PVC collection numbers in Nigeria and Ogun State came up with the lowest PVC collection rate in Nigeria with only 40% of electorates with their PVCs.