INEC vows to punish officials found wanting in the Presidential election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed to punish its officials, including ad-hoc or collation personnel, who may have been found wanting in the conduct of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly Elections.
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners RECs.
According to him, they must work harder to overcome the challenges experienced in the last election.
“Nothing else will be acceptable to Nigerians,” he added
Furthermore, the INEC chairman noted that all staff found to be negligent, whether they are regular or ad hoc officials, including Collation and Returning Officers, must not be involved in forthcoming elections.
Also, he told the RECs that Election Day logistics must be finalized days before the election and handled by the Electoral Officers EOs at the Local Government level.
In addition, he noted that RECs will be held responsible for any tardy arrangement or the failure to deploy electric power generators to collation centers or polling units where such facilities are needed.
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” The Commission has enough facilities in all the States of the Federation. Failure to deploy them is simply inexcusable”, he declared.
Furthermore, Yakubu also stated that refresher training must be conducted for ad hoc staff who participated in the last election, adding that where they are replaced for good reason, they must be properly trained so that processes are not delayed or compromised at any stage.
Additionally, INEC Chairman noted that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS will once again be deployed for voter accreditation and result management.
He said the deployment of BVAS has gone a long way to sanitize voter accreditation as can be seen from the result of recent elections.
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