The Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it is ready for the supplementary election
into Kogi West Senatorial District and Ajaokuta Federal Constituency seats both
in Kogi State.
Kogi State Resident Electoral
Commissioner, REC, Prof. James Apam made this known on Tuesday in Lokoja and
disclosed that the supplementary election would hold in 75 polling units in the
two affected areas.
Giving the breakdown at a
stakeholders meeting, Apam said the elections will be held in 53 polling units
in Kogi West, and 22 polling units in Ajaokuta Federal Constituency.
“In Kogi West what we did was to
apply the ‘Margin of Lead Principle’, which stipulates that when the
differences in the margin between the leading candidate and runner up is not up
to the number of cancelled votes, a supplementary election will be held in
those areas.
“The leading party (APC) is
leading with 22,000 votes while the registered voters in cancelled areas is
45,767; hence the need for the supplementary election.
“For Ajaokuta federal constituency,
the Appeal court asked us to conduct election in those 22 polling units within
60 days, because the Presiding officers did not sign the result sheets for the
election in those areas; and the 60 days had almost elapsed.”
Apam; however. said close to 200
INEC officers (staff and ad-hoc) will be in charge of the elections; stressing
that university professors will still be used as collation officers both at the
wards and local government area collations centres.
However, many of the stakeholders
indicted the police and political class for what they described as show of
shame in the last governorship election. They said the police failed the Kogi
people in the last election and urged the security personnel to brace up in
order to forestall a re-occurrence in the Saturday elections.
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