Independent National Electoral Commission might review its voting rules due to the recent flooding that hit some parts of the nation. This was discussed in Awka, Anambra state, at a session for senior executives of the commission from Abia, Anambra and Benue states.

Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner said many electorate have lost their voters cards due to the flooding that sent them out of their communities.

Furthermore, he added that water might have destroyed many documents belonging to some local councils submerged by the flood.

Prof. Onukaogu said,“I would enjoin you as you go on to draw a strategic plan for 2012–2016 to focus your mind on how elections would be administered in these areas with our offices submerged by water,with the residents fleeing and their belongings,including voter cards destroyed and washed away by the flood.”

He doubted if INEC would still stick to its rules that stipulate that “it is the voter’s cards only that can admit voters to the polling station” when for some unforeseen factor, their voters’ cards have been mislaid or destroyed as a result of the flood.
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