The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has restated its commitment to the conduct of next month’s general elections, saying it has never contemplated tinkering with the election schedule. INEC said since it rolled out the electoral timetable about a year ago, it had consistently done everything possible to stay on track, expressing its preparedness to go ahead with the polls as scheduled. Chairman of the commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, stated this yesterday in a keynote address titled, Mechanism in Place for Election Security and Violence Free Elections by INEC, at the launch of the project, Mitigation of Violence in Election, MOVE, organised by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, IFES, in Abuja. Asked to clarify the position of INEC with regards to the call by the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, urging the commission to postpone the election, Jega said; “I do not want to comment on this, like every other person, we also read that in the papers. “I myself, many things have been attributed to me which I know I never said. So, until I can confirm and get clarification, it will be premature for me to start commenting on that. “In any case, nobody would have communicated the Commission’s decision because the Commission has not sat and discussed this matter; so has not taken a decision on it”, he stated. The NSA had hinged his suggestion on the hitches being experienced with the distribution of the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs. While the INEC boss conceded that the rate of PVCs distribution was slow, he added that over 50 million PVCs have been produced and over 30 million collected adding that there were still millions of PVCs waiting to be collected.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:43:04 +0000
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