Afrigather The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) stated the fee would deploy 370 Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) in Osun for the Feb. 25 and March 11 elections.
Mutiu Agboke, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC within the state, made this recognized to newsmen on Sunday, on the sidelines of the two-day coaching organised by the fee for SPOs in Osogbo.
He stated that the SPOs had been chosen senior workers in Federal Authorities institutions who could be liable for the coaching and retraining of different advert hoc workers, together with Presiding Officers (POs) and Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs).
“The SPOs’ coaching is essential as a result of the SPOs could be answerable for coaching and retraining our advert hoc workers, POs, and APOs, on the Registration Space Centres (RACs).
“They’re additionally liable for deploying advert hoc workers to their numerous polling models on Election Day.
“They are going to organise the POs, refresh their reminiscence, take them via the workings of the BVAS, inform them the method and process of the election, the best way to enter outcomes, and the best way to organise and arrange at their polling models,” he stated.
He reiterated the readiness of the fee to conduct the overall elections, including that the coaching of the SPOs is a sign that the fee is totally set to go forward with the elections.
Earlier, whereas addressing the SPOs, Agboke warned them in opposition to being compromised by politicians to subvert the elections, saying any of them caught sabotaging the elections for politicians could be prosecuted and jailed.
Agboke stated he would take it up personally to prosecute any electoral officer or SPO discovered culpable in subverting elections within the state.
The REC warned those that wished to function SPOs with a view to do the bidding of politicians to have a rethink.
He stated the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines remained sacrosanct for the approaching elections and that many politicians had been afraid of the BVAS.
He, nevertheless, pressured that, with using the BVAS, INEC would be sure that elections had been solely gained on the energy of recognition and acceptability.
