The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has assured residents in Ondo state that the electoral body would improve on two major challenges of logistics and result management in Saturday’s governorship election on November 16.
Yakubu said polling units would open promptly on election day due to improved logistics.
The INEC boss spoke to journalists on Monday during his visit to Akure for assessment of preparations for the polls.
Yakubu said he had received positive reports from the Akure INEC office.
He explained that he was in Akure to meet with the stakeholders, including political parties, civil society organisations, the media security agencies and INEC officials.
He said: “One of the activities we are also going to observe is the mock accreditation of voters which will take place in 16 polling units across six local government areas in the three senatorial zones of the state.
“We have learnt a lot of lessons not only from the last election but also previous elections. Basically, there are two challenges, the first one is logistics for election, so
”The second one is result management and my assurance to voters in Ondo state is that they are going to see fast improvement in these two processes.”
Blueprint gathered that on November 8 at 10:00am, there would be signing of a peace accord by the political parties to be coordinated by the National Peace Committee (NPC) and INEC, as part of efforts to ensure a peaceful election process, at the Dome International Event Centre, Akure.
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Agboola Ajayi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olusola Ebiseni of the Labour Party (LP), Gbenga Edema of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Bamidele Akingboye of the Social Democratic Party(SDP) are the leading candidates eying the Alagbaka Government House.
According to INEC, 2,053,061 registered voters would decide the fate of the candidates, who have been criss-crossing the state to woo voters in a relatively peaceful electioneering.
