{"id":82022,"date":"2026-01-22T13:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82022"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:05:46","slug":"pvc-collection-limited-to-fct-inec-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/22\/pvc-collection-limited-to-fct-inec-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"PVC Collection Limited to FCT, INEC Clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has clarified that the ongoing Permanent Voter Card (PVC) collection exercise is limited to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) ahead of the February 21, 2026 Area Council elections.<br \/>\nIn a statement posted on its official X handle on Thursday, INEC urged residents of other states to disregard reports suggesting that PVC collection is taking place nationwide, noting that dates for other states have not yet been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear residents of other states, the current PVC collection exercise applies only to the FCT, ahead of the February 21, 2026 Area Council election,\u201d the commission said.<\/p>\n<p>INEC added that all updates would be communicated through its official platforms and advised eligible voters outside the FCT to remain patient.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification follows INEC\u2019s earlier announcement on the commencement of PVC distribution in the FCT. According to the commission, PVC collection will take place at voters\u2019 Registration Areas (wards) from January 22 to January 26, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily.<\/p>\n<p>Voters who are unable to collect their PVCs within the stipulated period will be able to do so later at INEC Area Council offices across the FCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has clarified that the ongoing Permanent Voter Card (PVC) collection exercise is limited to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) ahead of the February 21, 2026 Area Council elections. In a statement posted on its official X handle on Thursday, INEC urged residents of other states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,192,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-inec","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82024,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82022\/revisions\/82024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}