The Commission gave the warning on Saturday through its twitter handle @inecnigeria.
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David Anyaele, Executive Director, Centre for Citizens with Disabilities, has said that Persons Living with Disabilities deserve more attention while carrying out their electoral rights.
The National Coordinator of the group, Kalu Victor, made the commendation in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Saturday.
Ezenwa Nwagwu, a board member of the group, said this in a midday situation report made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
The Executive Director of YIAGA Africa, Samson Itodo, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the group was monitoring the election in 250 polling units.
President of the group, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, who gave the commendation while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ile-Ife, said the turnout of voters was impressive.
In a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, the Executive Director, Women Arise for Change Initiative, Joe Okei-Odumakin, said the security agencies had so far displayed the highest level of professionalism in their coverage of the exercise.
Oyetola spoke shortly after casting his vote at his Unit 2, Ward 1, LA Primary School Popo, Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government Area of Osun.
In some of the polling units visited in Ilesa and Ile-Ife, majority of the voters came to the polling units with their smartphones although security agents did not allow them to take them inside the cubicles to vote.
The European Union Election Observers say they will monitor Saturday’s governorship election in Osun with an eye on vote-buying.
Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
Addressing a press conference at the Ola-Oni Centre in Osogbo, the state capital, the CSOs noted that the preparation of INEC for the election was great and urged the people of the state to troop out in large number and vote for candidates of their choice.
Olusegun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun, made this known on Friday at a press conference in Osogbo.
Stakeholders in Adamawa have identified manipulation of religion, ethnicity and other primordial fault lines as some of the factors responsible for election violence in the state.
Some lawmakers in the Lagos State House of Assembly, on Friday, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to ensure a credible poll in the Osun Saturday gubernatorial election.
The state Commandant of the NSCDC, Ebenezer Aboluwoye, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Osogbo on Friday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that 265,432 Permanent Voter0 Cards had yet to be claimed in Delta.
The Chief Missioner of Nasrul-Lahil-l-Fath Society, Imam Onike Abdul-Azeez, has appealed to leadership of various political parties and INEC to reduce the cost of expression of interest and nomination forms for aspirants.
Observer groups accredited for the Osun governorship election have commended the Independent National Electoral Commissionand security agencies for their commitment to ensuring a credible and transparent election.
Ezenwa Nwagwu, a board member of YIAGA Africa in a statement, said that the group under its Watching The Vote project deployed 561 observers to monitor the pre, during and post-election environment of Osun.