We’re fully ready for FCT council poll, INEC assures residents

The Fair Nationwide Electoral Price on Wednesday assured residents that it was as soon as fully ready for the February 12, 2022, Federal Capital Territory Dwelling Council elections.

The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, acknowledged this when he led the charge’s administration team on an on-the-sigh evaluation on the extent of preparedness focus on with to the INEC FCT Place of work in Abuja.

He told the team that the charge would elevate the bar of credibility within the behavior of the election.

Yakubu said, “We hold done all the pieces that we are presupposed to construct by methodology of preparations, what remains is for me to listen to from you and to ensure the voters within the FCT that we hold location the long-established for conducting credible elections in Nigeria. The FCT Dwelling Council elections 2022 will not lower the bar. If the relaxation, you’re going to scrutinize enhanced behavior of credible elections within the Federal Capital.”

Whereas citing that the election was as soon as prison 16 days away, Yakubu explained that there shall be a series of actions going forward.

“This is prison the main, next we are going to hotfoot down to the Wards, and we are going to focus on with the Wards and rob with the EOs and their team on the actual preparation on ground,” he said.

Yakubu said that the sensitive materials for the elections shall be customized consistent with the different of constituencies and events fielding candidates.

“We hold 475 candidates nominated by the 17 political events competing for 68 positions. We hold already published the names of the candidates by constituencies. The sensitive materials hold also been customized by the different of events participating,” he said.

Talking on the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation Machine as well to affiliation for the team to man the gadgets, Yakubu said the configuration of the BVAS for the total Polling Objects shall be finalized by Friday.

He said, “We hold the requisite different of team, we hold skilled them, and we hold the requisite different of technical befriend that will reply within the tournament of system defects on Election Day. We hold made enough arrangements in tell that the Registration Dwelling Technical Enhance are in a location to switch around on Election Day, in case their companies are required.”

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in FCT, Yahaya Bello,


said that the FCT INEC sigh of enterprise had taken shipping of 90 per cent of the non-sensitive materials compulsory for the elections and the same had been disbursed to the six Dwelling Councils with strict supervision.

The REC assured that the relaxation 10 per cent will be delivered within the following couple of days.

He said an extra 28,633 unusual registrants had been added to the register of voters to be broken-down for the Dwelling Council elections, bringing to a entire, 1,373,492, registered voters within the FCT.

He said, “An analysis of the CVR shows that a entire different of 21, 508 males and 21,478 females had been captured within the exercise sooner than it was as soon as suspended for tidy up and printing of the Everlasting Voter Playing cards to be disbursed forward of the FCT elections.”

He said the Register of Voters to be broken-down for the elections hold since been printed and light copies equipped to the political events.

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