By Gabriel Enogholase

BENIN—GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has called on the Police and other security agencies in the state to investigate and apprehend some desperate politicians, who he said go about purchasing Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, from eligible voters with a view to disenfranchising them in the forthcoming general elections.

The governor, yesterday, when he received the new Commissioner of Police for the state, Mr. Samuel Damilola Adegbuyi, who visited him in his office, said: “Everyday, I hear reports about some desperate politicians buying PVCs from people, particularly villagers and even non-villagers, sometimes for as much as N5,000.

“I am trying to understand what anybody can do with this, it is not clear. Somebody called me this morning to say that two persons came to him to complain that they gave them N5,000 in lieu of their PVCs.”