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.

https://orientdailynews.com.ng/politics/election-beware-social-media-results/



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hmm

True

Allow us to take notes of the results from people who are present at the polling units, i don't really trust INEC to give us credible results..

BTW, who else noticed that election violence is only ongoing in PDP strongholds across the country, this is the evil plan by the APC to rig this election but Nigerians ready for una

we know

Oga shut up and face your job

APC are really desperate

Wow

Thanks inec, we can't trust thief supporters, they can thief anything, even claim fake vote just to make themselves happy.

No problem
What I know is that one of this two going to win, and the winner is going to be the man on white cloth with white cap and sun glass on

Don't say I didn't predict the winner earlier o

Those their twitter Pol and Facebook things will be clear after the announcement

The "Presidency" don dey warn INEC be dat oo as fear don day catch dem

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What a waste. With news coming in from Lagos, Kaduna south, Anambra, Akwa ibom, this election is heavily rigged and not peaceful like in 2015.

Buhari is a waste, a powerdrunk asswipe who would do anything to remain in power. He may win this election, but may not see the end of the tenure.

Inec and APChit will be put to shame.

Correct.
If care is not taken the enemies of the nation (PDP) can declare themselves as winners soon on nairaland (their ranting home and their best poling unit)

But I should believe the votes counter by Amina Zakari, Buhari's sister abi?

Team Atiku ;DTeam Atiku

Beware of APC lies

What is INEC doing for those polling unit disrupt by thugs. They shouldn't come and start telling us to be aware when they failed to deliver materials and credible elections. Thugs just destroying everywhere.

Fake news already flying

I thought accounts were suspended because of this?
Any fake result on social media won’t gain traction unlike back in 2015.

Ok

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

One more action bitters pls

Dino meleya has started posting results on twitter....INEC take note

Especially nairaland...

True.

However, today's election was marred with extreme violence!

And I ask myself, with all the intimidation of today, WHERE THE HELL WAS THE "SNATCH BALLOT BOX OR DO THUGERY AND DIE" comment by our president?

I'm so disappointed!

PVC my foot!

May Heaven show no mercy to this wicked ruling class.