EDO: INEC DEPLOYS 18,511 PERSONNEL FOR SATURDAY'S ELECTION

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said 18,511 electoral officials had been deployed to Edo ahead of the Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

He disclosed it during the Stakeholders’ Forum, organised by the commission in Benin on Wednesday, for the Saturday's election,

He said
“Their service, complemented by other patriotic Nigerians, is essential to the electoral process and our democracy,’’ he added.

Yakubu assured of the commission’s continued neutrality in elections, saying that the Edo exercise would be free, fair and credible.

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“All election duty personnel have sworn to an oath of neutrality and fairness to the process, and any infraction will attract severe sanctions from the commission. He appealed to political parties and their supporters to eschew violence and intimidation of electoral officials and the desperate resort to ballot-snatching and falsification of results. It is unfortunate that already, one smart card reader was snatched at one of the training centres recently. It was a futile effort because the card reader had not been configured to any polling unit for the election. It was nevertheless a disturbing incident; security agencies are the trail of the snatchers’’.

Culled from Dailypost