The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun State, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, has verbalized that the Independent National Electoral Commission has engendered supplemental 3,379 voting points in the state to ascertain expeditious accreditation of voters during the August 9 governorship election.
Agbaje, who verbally expressed this at a press briefing in Osogbo on Friday verbalized the state had 3,010 polling units afore the incipient additament.
The REC withal admonished members of the National Youth Service Corps and officials of the commission against sanctioning themselves to be compromised by politicians.
He verbalized anybody caught engaging in any act which contravenes the Electoral Law would be handed over to the police for prosecution.
Agbaje, while assuring the people of the state of the readiness of INEC integrated that the commission would conduct an election which would be acceptable not only to the people and international observers but additionally to the candidates and their parties.
The REC verbally expressed, “We have distributed non-sensitive electoral materials to the 30 Local Regime Area offices of the commission for efficacious and timely preparation at the local regime area offices.
“The commission has engendered 3,379 voting points to expedite the process of accreditation and voting.
“We have recruited 10,432 ad hoc staff members. These ad hoc staff were sourced from the National Youth Service Corps; accommodating corps members in Osun, Ekiti, Kwara, Oyo, Ondo and Kogi states. Withal, students of Federal Polytechnic, Ede and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife and staff of federal establishments in Osun State.
“Any corps member or other categories of INEC staff caught in any unlawful act will be disowned and be handed over to the police.”
He expounded that the state had 3,010 polling units but INEC decided to split some units which had about 1,500 registered voters into three to ascertain that all voting points had an average of 500 voters. This, he verbally expressed, would ascertain that voters were expeditiously attended to and ascertain facile voting.
He verbalized that out of 1,407,222 persons who registered as voters, 960,124 had accumulated their permanent voter cards and would be eligible to vote while 450,560 had yet to accumulate theirs.
According to him, 745,828 representing 53 per cent of the total registered voters are females while 661,394 which is 47 per cent of the voters are males.
Agbaje debunked the allegation that the commission was collaborating with the Peoples Democratic Party to manipulate the election in favour of Senator Iyiola Omisore.
He verbally expressed that INEC had no favourite among the contestants while urging the people of the state to vote according to their conscience.
He additionally verbalized that INEC would supply enough election materials to all the voting centres verbally expressing that this was the reason for the engenderment of a registration area centre where officials of the commission would camp on the eve of the election. He verbalized the essence of this was to ascertain early distribution of materials on the D-Day.
He verbally expressed that the commission and security agencies were collaborating to ascertain that there was no violence and that security of voters and INEC officials was ensured.
He verbalized that there would be no adscititious security for incipient voting centres because they would be within the vicinity of the subsisting polling units.
Agbaje, who verbally expressed this at a press briefing in Osogbo on Friday verbalized the state had 3,010 polling units afore the incipient additament.
The REC withal admonished members of the National Youth Service Corps and officials of the commission against sanctioning themselves to be compromised by politicians.
He verbalized anybody caught engaging in any act which contravenes the Electoral Law would be handed over to the police for prosecution.
Agbaje, while assuring the people of the state of the readiness of INEC integrated that the commission would conduct an election which would be acceptable not only to the people and international observers but additionally to the candidates and their parties.
The REC verbally expressed, “We have distributed non-sensitive electoral materials to the 30 Local Regime Area offices of the commission for efficacious and timely preparation at the local regime area offices.
“The commission has engendered 3,379 voting points to expedite the process of accreditation and voting.
“We have recruited 10,432 ad hoc staff members. These ad hoc staff were sourced from the National Youth Service Corps; accommodating corps members in Osun, Ekiti, Kwara, Oyo, Ondo and Kogi states. Withal, students of Federal Polytechnic, Ede and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife and staff of federal establishments in Osun State.
“Any corps member or other categories of INEC staff caught in any unlawful act will be disowned and be handed over to the police.”
He expounded that the state had 3,010 polling units but INEC decided to split some units which had about 1,500 registered voters into three to ascertain that all voting points had an average of 500 voters. This, he verbally expressed, would ascertain that voters were expeditiously attended to and ascertain facile voting.
He verbalized that out of 1,407,222 persons who registered as voters, 960,124 had accumulated their permanent voter cards and would be eligible to vote while 450,560 had yet to accumulate theirs.
According to him, 745,828 representing 53 per cent of the total registered voters are females while 661,394 which is 47 per cent of the voters are males.
Agbaje debunked the allegation that the commission was collaborating with the Peoples Democratic Party to manipulate the election in favour of Senator Iyiola Omisore.
He verbally expressed that INEC had no favourite among the contestants while urging the people of the state to vote according to their conscience.
He additionally verbalized that INEC would supply enough election materials to all the voting centres verbally expressing that this was the reason for the engenderment of a registration area centre where officials of the commission would camp on the eve of the election. He verbalized the essence of this was to ascertain early distribution of materials on the D-Day.
He verbally expressed that the commission and security agencies were collaborating to ascertain that there was no violence and that security of voters and INEC officials was ensured.
He verbalized that there would be no adscititious security for incipient voting centres because they would be within the vicinity of the subsisting polling units.
