He said that preparations were underway to ensure the materials arrived few days before the election as scheduled
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“INEC has been painfully slow in processing the permanent voters cards, and one can only hope that the electoral body is not doing this deliberately to disenfranchise voters, especially in opposition strongholds,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
The PVCs will now be distributed at the polling unit level in the affected states from August 15, 2014 to August 17, 2014
Jega said no effort would be spared to make the Osun State election, scheduled for August 9, 2014, more qualitative in all aspects than the June 21 Ekiti State election, which has been widely acclaimed as the best so far by the Commission
The group in a statement in Osogbo, Osun State on Sunday, said that the redeployment of Akeju would guarantee free and fair conduct of the governorship election holding in the state on August 9
The Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, who made this allegation in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, said: “The APC is not new to what is known as ‘ibo lehin ibo’ (voting after voting), hence our decision to alert the public
The NHRC said: “We call for a public inquiry on the nature of ballot papers used. The Independent National Electoral Commission needs to regain dwindling confidence arising from reports that the ballot papers were programmed to favour the PDP
Ibitoye said this at the inauguration of a 13-member Inter-Agency Advisory Committee on Voters Education and Publicity in Ilorin
The Plateau State Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Hon. Habu Zarma, disclosed this on Tuesday while inaugurating the state’s inter-agency advisory committee on voters awareness campaign and education
But the group urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to “move towards the use of Electronic Voting Machines, EVM, for future elections, in order to ensure more credibility as it has indicated that it has the capacity to use such process, which it used to collate results in the collating centers”
A statement issued by the embassy in Abuja on Monday commended INEC for overseeing “a credible, efficient process”, which it said, by all accounts, reflected the will of Ekiti State voters
This was contained in a press statement signed by Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Atahiru Jega, and issued on Wednesday in Abuja
In a release by the party’s interim chairman in the state, Chief Jide Awe, APC said INEC was playing pranks with such materials sensitive to the election in a manner it did with the Anambra election. Such action by the electoral body is a worrisome impunity, as it contravenes the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010, which makes it obligatory for INEC to provide the certified true copies of the voters’ register to a party upon request without fail
Similarly, the Commandant-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps,(NSCD), Dr Ade Abolurin has handed down a stern warning to officers and men of the corps to steer away from accepting any form of logistic supports from government or individuals ahead the election
Agbaje also said that additional 103,143 eligible voters were registered across the 21 local government areas of the state during the continuous voter reg
Pai said Jega will be accompanied by six other National Commissioners and supported by all the Resident Electoral Commissioners in the neighbouring states of Ekiti
The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Niger State, Dr. Emmanuel Onucheyo, while inaugurating the Committee at the INEC office in Minna on Thursday, said that the committee was mandated to draw a road map in order to have an effective Voter Education and Publicity Programme in the state devoid of any hitches
Kebbe however said that those who were yet to register should do so at the commission’s local government offices where the exercise would continue
Also, the President of the Senate and all former Senate presidents, speaker of the House of Representatives and all former speakers of the House of Representatives are now members of the Council of State
Speaking at the opening of a two-day retreat of the National Inter-Agency Advisory Committee on Voter Education and Publicity, Jega said this was in spite of the enormous resources to voter and civic education being committed by the commission and other bodies