The
Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will not issue
Certificates of Return to candidates in places where its officials are held
hostage or forced to declare winners under duress in the governorship and state
Houses of Assembly elections on Saturday (tomorrow).
The
commission also threatened to record zero vote and cancel the results of
polling units where its personnel deliberately failed to deploy the Smart Card
Readers.
The
Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Thursday during the
meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security held at
the commission’s Conference Room in Abuja.
According
to him, governorship election would be conducted in 29 states, state assembly
poll will elect 991 members of Houses of Assembly in all the states of the
Federation, six Chairmen as well as 62 councillors for the Area Councils in the
Federal Capital Territory.
The INEC
chairman said that in addition to elections into 1,082 constituencies
nationwide, the commission would conduct supplementary elections in 14 states
of the federation covering seven Senatorial Districts and 24 federal
constituencies.
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