The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission,
Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday said that anyone who engages in ballot box snatching
during the rescheduled general elections will be punished according to the law.
He also explained that, contrary to allegations that its
National Commissioner, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu, was arrested and detained by the
Department of State Services, none of its personnel has been apprehended by any
law enforcement agent.
Yakubu made these clarifications during a press briefing at
the Abuja International Conference Centre, venue of the 2019 general elections
collation centre, where he stated that “95 per cent of the Smart Card Readers
have been reconfigured” in preparation for the presidential and National
Assembly elections rescheduled for this Saturday.
He said, “No National Commissioner was arrested by security
agencies. There is none whose residence was ransacked and the National
Commissioner in question is in his office as we speak here.”
When asked to respond to President Buhari’s statement that
ballot box snatchers would do it at their own expense, the INEC chairman said
that violators of electoral law, including ballot box snatchers, would “be
punished within the confines of the law.”
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