We’re ready for Saturday supplementary election in Rivers - INEC

INEC has expressed its readiness over
Rivers supplementary election
- The supplementary election is holding on
Saturday, April 13, in four constituencies of
the state
- Edwin Enabor, the INEC head of voter
education and publicity in Rivers, said the
sensitive electoral materials were inspected
with the participating party agents on
Wednesday, April 10
The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) on Thursday, April
11, said it was 80 per cent ready to
conduct supplementary election in four
state Assembly constituencies in Rivers
on Saturday, April 13.
Legit.ng reports that Edwin Enabor, INEC
head of voter education and publicity in
Rivers, expressed the commission’s
readiness while speaking with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port
Harcourt.
NAN reports that the constituencies are
Gokana with 129,086 registered voters
and Opobo/Nkoro with 7,344 registered
voters only in the affected polling units.
Others are Ahoada west which has 36,692
registered voters as well as Abua/Odual,
with 88,561 registered voters.
Enabor said that the sensitive electoral
materials were inspected with the
participating party agents at the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Port Harcourt
on Wednesday, April 10.
He said that distribution of materials to
the affected constituencies would
commence on Thursday.
According to Enabor, the commission
would mainly use its permanent staff and
some students of the University of Port
Harcourt as ad hoc staff to conduct the
exercise.
“So far so good; we are almost at 80 per
cent ready. We have done training for the
ad hoc staff, particularly the supervisors,
while training for presiding and assistant
presiding officers are ongoing.
“We have done the stakeholders meeting.
The security committee had met at the
local government level where the
supplementary election will hold”, he
said.
The INEC head of voter education and
publicity stated that the commission
would make use of results transmitted to
its national server and accreditation from
the smart card readers.
He urged the electorate in the affected
constituencies to be peaceful and allow
INEC to conclude the conduct of the
election in the state. (NAN)
Meanwhile, metronaija had previously
reported that the chairman of the
Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood
Yakubu, blamed politicians for the
malpractices and violence that
characterized the 2019 general elections.