The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has recovered 106 PVCs from foreigners residing in Kwara State.
Mr Aminu Shamsuddin, the state comptroller of NIS, revealed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Monday.
According to Shamsuddin, some foreigners were caught in possession of Nigerian PVC during a regular patrol by Immigration officers in Ilorin.
He stated that NIS had educated all foreigners on the rules and regulations governing elections and invited them to educate them on the consequences of violators.
He said: “During one of the sensitisation talks, the foreigners were scared to hear that anybody caught participating in any way during Nigeria elections would be jailed, repatriated and blacklisted.
“Some of the foreigners who had Nigerian PVCs willingly dropped their cards and travelled back to their various countries, to return after the whole election exercise.
According to him: “Most of the people involved in the act were youths, both males and females, from Niger Republic, Benin Republic and Ghana.
“They claimed that their landlords in their various residences encouraged them to get the PVCs and vote during the election, so as to increase the number of votes for their various candidates.”
The comptroller warned that any foreigner caught in possession of a PVC would be jailed, repatriated, and blacklisted, effectively barring them from entering Nigeria again.
