announced stringent measures to be adopted in this weekend's
governorship and house of assembly elections.
Addressing journalists yesterday in Owerri, the state Resident
Electoral Commissioner, Dr Gabriel Ada stated that the smart card
readers and the permanent voter cards (PVCs) will be strictly used by
INEC to determine those eligible to vote.
Ada who disclosed that the commission having reviewed its performance
of the presidential and National Assembly elections agreed that their
were lapses that led to hindrances in the smooth conduct of the last
election.
He maintained that in the weekend's election, no manual accreditation
would be accepted adding that where that fails, election will be
postponed in such unit till the next day .
Also, Ada have announced that election results would be pasted from
various polling units where election took place before the final
announcement by the state headquarters.
"Results would be announced by all presiding officers from the units,
they should paste the results, in addition results should be collated
at all levels of collation centres. On no account should a collation
officer be allowed to collate results outside designated centres, we
observed this anomaly in the last election" Ada stated.
The commissioner also warned that no collation centre should be
located within the premises of a Local Government secretarial as he
noted was observed in the last election, however if a collation centre
should be sighted in such an area he stressed, the security chiefs
shall take absolute control of such areas.
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