INEC Distributes Sensitive Materials Ahead Of Saturday Election In Ondo
Toscad News
Ahead of Saturday’s State House of Assembly election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Ondo State has distributed sensitive materials to all its offices in the 18 Local Government areas in the state.
The distribution was held amidst tight security at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in the presence of political party representatives, journalists and security agents .
Ondo State will be having only House of Assembly election on March 18 with 13 political parties participating in the election.
Inspecting the materials, the state Acting Resident Electoral Commissioner of the INEC, Mr. Oyekola Oyelami, expressed the readiness of the commission to conduct free and fair poll in the state.
Oyelami who gave an assurance that all the Bimodal Voter Accreditation Systems (BVAS) had been configured and working perfectly said none of the BVAS was mistakenly taken to wrong polling unit in the last elections conducted on February 25.
According to him ” Every polling unit has a code stapled on each BVAS before taken to each unit”
While noting that the last achievements recorded in the last elections will surpass the coming poll in the state, Oyelami assured of early arrival of voting materials to each polling unit on the election day.
He advised electorate to come out enmasse to vote candidate of their choice.
Speaking with journalists , the State Chairman of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Mr.Olaoluwa Adesanya, expressed satisfaction with the inspection of materials.
He called on INEC to repeat the same feat recorded at the last poll in making voting materials available to polling units before the commencement of the election.#
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