 stakeholders have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to remove all administrative impediments to collections of permanent voter cards ongoing across the country. They gave this recommendation, or briefing newsmen, on the ongoing exercise in Lagos. Our correspondent Immanuel Olubo Boakon tells us more. It started with our session between journalists on the justice development and peace center and JDPC and other organizations. These people are not responsible for the inability to collect the PVC. He lies at your doorstep. So it's allowed to discuss growing concerns by citizens in ability to collect their permanent voter cards, PVCs. The stakeholders expressed worry that January 29th deadline is approaching. Yet, eligible voters are unhappy despite frantic efforts. Especially where somebody goes and waits for three, four, five hours and yet is not sure of his fate. If at the end of the day, by the time he, you know, accesses the INEC office, he will be told that your PVC is not found. He has wasted five hours, he has wasted six hours, and he goes back, you know. And so if we are talking today about a lot of uncollected PVCs, like Ms. Mercury was talking about, it's a possibility that some of these people who own these PVCs have been there several times in the past and have given up. We can't say this enough. They are doing a lot, but they need to do it more. They need to do, if INEC plays their role very well. I think to a large extent we'll have, we'll go into the elections with a lot more optimism. They are whether called for the extension of the deadline as over 3.5 million PVCs are still uncollected. Extension of the deadline for the collection of PVCs. I do not believe that 29 January is a feasible date, knowing that the full distribution of PVCs just came on board yesterday, and so you have barely four days from today for people to collect their PVC. So it's a short time. Extension is also part of the suggestions that we are giving to INEC for them to extend, and as they are extending, they are coming closer to the grassroot. They are coming closer to the people. You know, some local governments are far from the wards. While commanding the commission for each effort so far, they are however a period that more should be done to ensure collection of the cards at the wards level. They need to extend it, and they need to consider collection of PVCs by proxies. People can't be traveling the insecurity in the country. Many students are going for NYSE, for service. Some already have resumed academic sessions or into the many months of strike. We don't expect them to all come back, especially if the schools have not allowed them to come back home to get their PVC. So what happens? At least from INEC themselves, about 3.5 million PVCs are uncollected, and many of that number will be young persons. They should be collected by proxies and all that. INEC can also come back to the wards because many PVCs have just been released, and if those PVCs are not collected, I don't know what we have done at the end of the day. The ECSOs say the right to vote by eligible citizens is absolute, and cannot be sacrificed for exigencies. Emmanuel Ulububukun, Plos TV News.