Anambra guber election would be the best so far – Jega

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega Wednesday declared
that the November 16 governorship election would be the best
election so far in the country.
Speaking on the occasion of a stakeholder's forum held at the
Women Development center, Awka, Jega said the commission
had made adequate preparation to make sure there was a
credible, free and fair election.
However, he appealed to political parties and their candidates
to cooperate with the commission to actualize the goal, adding
that the body would give all the parties and candidates a level
playing ground in the contest.
He said INEC had corrected the controversial voters register
earlier given to political parties after the recent continuous
voters registration in the state which according to him was an
error from the computer that brought out the ages of some
voters as 16 years which would cause a serious problem
during the election.
Presenting the corrected copies of the voters register to
political parties, Jega asked them to carefully study them and
raise objection where necessary before the Saturday election.
" We are transparent and we will continue to be transparent
and fair to all the parties.We are human beings and we can
make mistakes and correct them", he said.
" We have concluded the training of our staff, we have
introduced security features to protect our ballot papers and
ballot boxes for every polling unit with a unique code number
for each unit so that you can not take a ballot paper from one
unit to another".
On multiple registration, the INEC boss said that the
commission had already arrested some defaulters and were
concluding arrangements to prosecute them and warned voters
in the state who had double registration not to go to the
polling units on Saturday as security agents had been directed
to arrest any offender.
Jega warned that there would be no movement of government
officials in the name of monitoring the Saturday election,
adding that party agents must wear INEC tags to enable them
enter and stay at the polling boots assigned to them.
Equally, he advised governorship candidates against going to
the polling booths to vote with their armed aides, noting that it
had caused violenc in the past.
Via: Vanguard