The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday disclosed that it will distribute the sensitive materials for Saturday’s governorship election today.
Addressing journalists on Wednesday at the inspection of the sensitive materials by major stakeholders in
the state, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, said the reason for the inspection of the sensitive materials was in a bid to show transparency of the commission.
At the inspection which was done at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) where the materials were housed upon arrival, Babalola noted that showing the stakeholders that the sensitive materials were still sealed and not tampered with will show that the commission is committed to delivering a free, fair and credible election.
According to the REC,”We have our schedule for distribution of materials. We received the materials on Monday, we scheduled Wednesday for the inspection of the materials, the distribution is going to be on Thursday.
“The reason we invited critical stakeholders such as security officers, political parties, observers, and media, among others to this inspection is to show transparency of all the sensitive materials as they were received. You could see that they were well-wrapped, and nobody had tampered with them.
“When we come tomorrow(Thursday) for distribution, we will open them Local Government by Local Government, give them to the Electoral Officers, we will start with the most far LG so that they can get to their LG on time. When they get to the LG, they will start distributing to Registration Areas and Polling Units.”
