The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it will not deploy personnel and materials to eighty-six of the five thousand, seven hundred and twenty polling units in Anambra State as they have no voters
The Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who stated this at a special consultative meeting with political parties, noted that election will however, take place in eight hundred and ninety-four, that is fifteen-point six percent of the polling units which have between one and four voters.
He reassured Ndi Anambra that the Commission is prepared for the Governorship election next weekend as they have delivered all non-sensitive materials for the election to the twenty-one Local Government Areas of the State.
Professor Yakubu revealed that the Central Bank of Nigeria, is handling the delivery of sensitive materials to the State on schedule while the Commission’s State office in Awka is arranging for stakeholders to inspect the materials at the premises of the Central Bank in Awka.
He said that the Anambra Governorship election will be the first that voting is taking place in polling units since the recent successful conversion of voting points arising from the expansion of voter access to polling units in Nigeria and an additional one thousand, one hundred and twelve polling units were established in Anambra State in addition to the existing four thousand, six hundred and eight locations.
In his reaction, the Chairman of the Inter Party Advisory Council, Dr. Donald Nzenwa, said the council as core stakeholder in the political sphere is mindful of the daunting challenges facing the Commission in the upcoming election and assured of assisting it in the conduct of credible election.
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