The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has
declared that it will not count votes in any polling unit where violence occurs
during Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State.
INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made this announcement
in Yenagoa at a stakeholders meeting.
Represented by the INEC National Commissioner supervising
Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, and Rivers, Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu, Yakubu explained that
INEC would deploy BIVAS to all polling units for the election.
“I want to let you know that our BIVAS have been customised
for INEC, so INEC details and the names of the parties are on the BIVAS, so any
BIVAS you see without INEC details cannot be from INEC.
“Another thing, we have all the lists of the serial numbers
of the BIVAS we are going to use; the result sheets will be signed at the
polling units.
“Where there is violence, it will be zero; we will not
return to that polling unit to conduct the election.
“We have recruited and carefully trained all categories of
ad-hoc staff to be deployed to the field; all non-sensitive materials have been
distributed to all the eight local government area offices of the state, and
voter education and sensitization are ongoing,” he said.
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