Election: Beware Of Social Media Results – INEC

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kebbi state has urged politicians to be wary of social media posts after voting prior to the official declaration of result by the commission.

The
resident electoral commissioner (REC) in the state, Alhaji Ahmad Mahmud,
gave the advice during an interactive session with stakeholders in
Birnin Kebbi on Monday.

“Fake news is now a trend and can mar our efforts to ensure free, fair and credible elections.

“We urge you to be wary of social media posted results before official declaration.

“Only
INEC returning officers at wards, local governments and state levels
have the statutory authority and power to declare the results,” he said.

He
said that 1,938,171 permanent voter cards (PVCs) were received from
INEC headquarters out of which 1,860,239 were distributed, leaving
77,932 PVCs unclaimed.

“We have all the sensitive materials at CBN custody, so we have no fear for the materials now.

“I
collected the remaining sensitive materials that we had been awaiting
for and by Wed, Feb. 20, we are going to start distributing them to
remote areas and by Friday 22.

“We hope to finish the distribution in all the 21 local government areas of the state.”

According to him, the state has 225 wards, 1,345 voting points and 2,398 polling units in the 21 local government areas.

“We
still maintain our arrangement as we had earlier told before the
postponement that, we are going to use 520 vehicles in the
transportation of ad hoc staff and election materials.

“This is
part of our arrangement with the National Union of Road Transport
Workers (NURTW), Federal Road Service Corps (FRSC) as well as security
agencies on transportation.”

He assured that INEC was determined
to ensure free, transparent and fair elections but urged the people to
continue to pray for successful conduct of the exercise.

The REC
said that special arrangements had also been made to take care of
physically challenged persons to enable them exercise their franchise
without hitches.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the
stakeholders at the interactive session were security agencies,
representatives of political parties, traditional and religious leaders
as well as various NGOs and CSOs.

Source:- Orientaldailynews

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