The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the commission require about 26,000 ad hoc staff for the November 6 governorship election in Anambra state.
Insightnaijatv gathered that people, especially members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Anambra state may have shunned the ad hoc staff job, following the rising insecurity, as well as threats by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the conduct of the November 6 election.
The INEC chairman expressed the Commission’s commitment to deploying the BVAS for electronic fingerprint and facial accreditation of voters, while insisting that going forward; nobody will be allowed to vote in any election without successful biometric accreditation.
“However, security remains a major challenge to our preparations. For the political parties, these heinous attacks have truncated campaigns, making voter mobilization and sensitization impossible. Consequently, Anambra State is not in the usual election mood. It is in the light of the security situation in the State that the Commission held an emergency meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) last Tuesday. The meeting was frank and productive. We are assured of the determination of the security agencies to protect voters, election staff, election observers, the media, transport providers and candidates during the election.
Already, security around INEC facilities in the State has been ramped up. We are also confident that the heightened deployment of security officials, which is expected in the coming weeks, will further give citizens the confidence to turn up and vote on Election Day. We shall continue to work with the security agencies to ensure that the election is successful and violence-free.
The group had issued a 12-day ultimatum to the Nigerian Government for the “unconditional release” of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, failure of which the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State may not hold.
IPOB in a statement signed by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Sunday, gave the Nigerian Government up till November 4 to release Kanu unconditionally, or it would commence a one-week lockdown in the region effective November 5.
The group explained that the one-week sit-at-home order, which would end on November 10, was to press for the release of their leader whom the Nigerian Government was prepared to keep in incarceration ad infinitum for nothing.
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