The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it won’t count votes in any polling unit where violence occurs in Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this in Yenagoa at a stakeholders meeting.
Represented by the INEC National Commissioner supervising Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa and Rivers, Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu, Yakubu said that INEC would deploy BIVAS to all polling units for the election.
“I want to let you know that our BIVAS have been customized for INEC, so INEC details and the name of the parties are on the BIVAS, so any BIVAS you see without INEC details cannot be from INEC.
“Another thing, we have the list of the serial number of the BIVAS we will 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 an 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, voter education and sensitization is ongoing,” he said.
