Twenty-three staff of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, in Kwara State are awaiting sanctions for their involvement
in illegal voters’ registration in the State.
The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Garba Attahiru
Madami, disclosed this in Ilorin at a stakeholders’ meeting with members of
registered political parties contesting the 2023 general elections, with
security agencies also in attendance.
He said the current total voting population of Kwara state
is 1.6m.
He decried poor response of the people of the State to
collection of permanent voter cards, saying from 2011 to 2019 the commission
has a total of 233,856 uncollected voter cards.
Madami explained that out of the figure of uncollected voter
cards, only 20,752 were collected as at October 2022, with over 193,000
remaining uncollected.
He explained that the stakeholders’ meeting was necessary as
the first step towards ensuring hitch-free elections in the State next year.
Madami vowed to protect the electoral process by conducting
free, fair, transparent, peaceful and credible elections which will be
acceptable to Kwarans.
In his remarks, the State Police Commissioner, Paul Odama,
warned politicians against vote buying which the electoral law frowns against.
He advised them to engage in issues-based campaigns, shun
thuggery and damage to billboards of opposing political parties.
Odama also cautioned politicians to desist from feeding
their supporters with hard drugs to guarantee violence free campaigns and
elections in the State.
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