A Federal High court in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, has been asked to stop the February 2015 general elections.

The plaintiffs in the suit, Asogo Torkuma Venatius, Ola Solomon Oluwasanmi, Sunday Attah and Philip Agbese, are seeking the nod of the court to postpone the elections until all eligible voters have collected their Permanent Voters Card (PVC).

In the suit, filed through their counsel, Mr Amobi Nzelu, they are also asking the court to order the use of Temporary Voters Card for those who are unable to collect their PVC.

In the statement of claim, the plaintiffs said that contrary to the announcement by the electoral body in 2014 that they would issue all eligible voters with PVC for the February 2015 election, about half of eligible voters are yet to collect their PVC.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has continued to assure Nigerians of its readiness to conduct the polls on the scheduled days.

Few days ago, it announced an extension of the deadline for collection of the PVC from January 31 to February 8.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State, Mr Akin Orebiyi, told Channels Television on Friday that Nigerians were not coming out as expected to collect the cards, but expressed optimism that 80 to 85 per cent of the cards would be collected before the deadline.

•Excerpted from a Channels TV report.