 You're welcome back and we're now being joined by public affairs analysts at 2K today to discuss the PVC collection controversies. Mr. Chouday. Thank you very good evening to you that's right it's quite some time. So you've listened to some of the respondents who have spoken about PVC collection and the crisis they are being faced with. Now this looks to me like many will be disenfranchised in this forthcoming elections in February. What's your take? Well you know there is so different schools for different people. These are people that are the receiving end of whatever it is that is not allowing them to collect their cards. I do think they are not happy. But one must praise them for their resilience. You can see some of them have explained that they have been there a few three four times and they are still going there regardless of the strong thoughts. And so one must say good days to them for the access of the duty and the trotism and responsibility. But again just as they are complaining there are others who have had their better experiences with iNec. I think at the initial stage when they dis-executed it was quite difficult and then some of us also had to escalate the matter to iNec offices. And they have lost some visible you know improvement in many locations. But previously some are still going through all manners of stress. And just like you said ultimately you know what is going to happen are people going to end up being disenfranchised. It's obvious that there are still so many people before this exercise started iNec had already told us that about nine million people had been registered. So you're looking at nine million people either trying to collect the prejudices apart from other people who have registered long before now who are also trying to collect their prejudices. And that was why we realized the possibility that a lot of people would be disenfranchised through various fora and platforms started calling on iNec to extend the registration which we have also done to the 29th of general rule and belong to the majority satisfaction rule. And having looked at the rate of collection so far and this is improvement again you are also saying that iNec should be able to stretch this again to at least February 3rd. And just like one of the you know the interviewees you know also said perhaps the closing time of three o'clock might have to be extended to around five o'clock on the daily basis obviously. Otherwise a lot of people in this case not looking at going to be disenfranchised. So iNec has to be much more yes they have been paused on the process and there's no doubt about that. But the people that your crew have been interviewing and real people too have also who are also experiencing real situations of not collecting their prejudices. So you cannot dismiss you know their complaints with a raise on the hand which is real. But a lot of them are finding very difficult to collect prejudices. Okay so an official of iNec recently made a statement and he said that there have been reports of iNec staff denying some members of the public their prejudices on grounds of ethnicity and that iNec was going to look into that. With happenings now wouldn't it look as say this report is real even though it came from an iNec official? No the fact that it came from an iNec official is very pivotal is very you know important. And because all these white people have been you know calling it a conspiracy theory that there was no truth. Obviously iNec has done a good diligence for iNec to acknowledge that this is happening. Is i think one it is supposed to iNec the fact that they are able to acknowledge this. But then again they have said they are going to look into that. I think not too long ago i think there was this consistent or persistent complaint about one of the iNec officers somewhere not caught up. And i think a few days ago so we were told that the woman who was in charge of that process had been removed and replaced. And then the people who had gone there to who went there subsequently to collect their prejudices came out smiling that things are beginning to change. So obviously these things are going on. You know and so what it means is that there are wrong elements within the iNec that are causing you know problems. These are unpatriotic people that are working for iNec and they're very dangerous people because they are uh uh standing in the way of the democratic process and will be showing the door out you know of iNec. Obviously, obviously they are working at the behest of some politicians and i also think that some of these investigations will even go beyond even identifying these people and then also pointing fingers at the politicians you know and that are giving them this instruction to do this uh you know this um you know anti anti-democratic to behave in this anti-democratic manner. So it is something for iNec having identified that this is true and that it's not conspiracy theory. Then iNec now has to you know do the work to show you know the way out to be some surplus element that are trying to give them a bad name. Now looking at the facts iNec has repeatedly said that it is very prepared for this election. One would think that looking at the time frame as well for the collection of the pvc is just a weak added and one day is out of it already. If by the end of the time frame some people do not have their pvc's what do you think would be happening? Yeah obviously those people would have been different sometimes. I don't know what to do with what they can see. I don't see they can begin to go to court because the process should have left them behind be to no thought of theirs. You know so uh i don't know you know people also tend to plead the blame also or plead the blame at the dumpster of the Nigerians that they are very late responders that they don't uh you know start this process on time. We have seen this in the past but one thing i don't see from Nigerians is that at least as far as legacies concerned another part of the country they turn out to be very very good and very very encouraging. You know in many of the you know uh uh uh ethnic communities that we have don't see uh maybe it might not be the same perhaps in other parts of the country but i would say that they have been in a very good response on the part of Nigerians. Now what is going to happen? I would hope that uh ultimately by the time this exercise ends that we will have very good story uh to say to say that virtually everybody that came to iNEC purposes were able to get their cards. That's what i would want to hear by the music. Yes also you know but i don't know how that is going to happen so i think we have to see if you mention this extension of the closing time on a daily basis give it an extra two hours before it gets dark so that by five o'clock the close is about you know uh um three o'clock as is the case now and then to also extend the the deadline for the ending of the collection of previous is by another week you know after twenty-ninth the deadline the recent deadline that i was set by iNEC after that i'm not sure that there's anything in the other percent and the most uncertainty. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates