BARELY 48 hours to the presidential and National Assembly elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Wednesday, commenced distribution of sensitive materials to locations across the country.

Chairman of the commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, disclosed this while unveiling the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room on Election Day, in Abuja.

Situation Room is a coalition of over 60 civil society organisation (CSOs) in the country.

He, however, disclosed that from the 2019 general election, the commission would move for the electronic transmission of results.

According to Jega, “for long, all our non-sensitive electoral materials had been taken to the local government offices. Commencing from today (Wednesday), the sensitive materials will be retrieved from the vault of the Central Bank, taken to our state offices, accompanied by agents of political parties

“From later this evening to tomorrow (Thursday) morning, this will be distributed to the various local governments in the states and they will also be accompanied from the state to the local governments by party agents.

“We expect that from tomorrow (Thursday) evening until around Friday afternoon, all the materials taken to the local governments will also be distributed to the ward levels.

“At each ward level, we have established what we call registration area centre and we have equipped it reasonably to ensure that both our staff and security agencies spend the few hours of the night there in readiness to deploy very early in the morning to the various polling units in each of those wards.”

The INEC chairman also disclosed that party agents could accompany INEC officials from the polling units to the collation centres, to avoid a repeat of the 2011 elections, where results declared at collation centres were at variance with those at polling units.

He assured that beyond the 2015 general election, INEC would continue to engage the civil society organisations and continue to build on mutually beneficial relationship in future elections.

Jega, who pointed out that the same methodology used in 2011 would also be adopted in announcing the results this year, however, disclosed that electronic transmission of results was possible in the 2019 polls.

While stressing that the commission had done everything possible to ensure that the polls were successful, Jega pointed out that the commission would improve the process of collation of result at this year’s exercise.

Earlier, the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, had said the police were fully prepared for the polls, just as the spokesman of Situation Room, Clement Nwankwo, disclosed that beyond the partisan divisions and outcomes of the electoral contests, the future of Nigeria wass the main issue at stake.

Speaking in Lagos, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Akin Orebiyi, at a stakeholders’ meeting held in Lagos, on Wednesday, said the commission had carefully mapped out ways on how to checkmate fraudulent acts by ensuring that all ballot papers were customised for each state with customised special numbers and codes.

All these, he said, had been designed to make elections fraud extremely difficult, especially in comparison to previous elections.

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