{"id":3920,"date":"2015-01-08T07:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2015-01-08T07:21:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:21:58","slug":"every-registered-nigerian-must-get-voters-card-jonathan-tells-jega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"Every Registered Nigerian Must Get Voter\u2019s Card, Jonathan Tells Jega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/President-Goodluck-Jonathan1-360x2252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3921\" alt=\"President-Goodluck-Jonathan1-360x225\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/President-Goodluck-Jonathan1-360x2252-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/President-Goodluck-Jonathan1-360x2252-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/President-Goodluck-Jonathan1-360x2252-128x80.jpg 128w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/President-Goodluck-Jonathan1-360x2252.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, charged the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega to ensure that all eligible Nigerians who registered to vote are provided with their permanent voter\u2019s registration cards.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking while swearing in a new national Commissioner of the commission, representing Oyo state, President Jonathan\u00a0 said no Nigerian should be disenfranchised because of his inability to get the PVC.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jega, who was also present at the swearing in of the new commissioner promised that every eligible Nigerian would be provided with a PVC before the\u00a0 next month\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to President Jonathan the huge interests shown by Nigerians from all walks of life in getting their voter\u2019s card was an indication that confidence is being restored in the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>\u201cNigerians are getting worried whether INEC can actually conduct elections because of the PVC. Talking about the PVC, even some governors are complaining that they are yet to get their PVC. If governors are yet to get their voter\u2019s cards, of course that means that so many Nigerians are yet to get and people are a bit worried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to me I\u2019m quite pleased, not pleased in the negative sense, but because of\u00a0 the awareness that has come on;\u00a0 that Nigerians want to have their voter\u2019s cards.\u00a0 In 2011, no Nigerian will complain about voter\u2019s card and that\u2019s why when some politicians talk I just laugh. Before 2011 how many Nigerians complained about not having voter\u2019s card because elections were not conducted with voter\u2019s cards. Nobody cared, we are all adults in Nigeria and we knew what was happening.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, charged the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega to ensure that all eligible Nigerians who registered to vote are provided with their permanent voter\u2019s registration cards. Speaking while swearing in a new national Commissioner of the commission, representing Oyo state, President Jonathan\u00a0 said no Nigerian should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/President-Goodluck-Jonathan1-360x2252.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-11e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}