Afrigather INEC says it’s 100 per cent prepared for the rescheduled Enugu South City State Constituency rerun election scheduled for Wednesday, February 14.
INEC’s head of voter schooling and publicity division, Rex Achumie, informed journalists in Enugu on Tuesday that sufficient preparations had been made for the train.
Mr Achumie stated the fee would obtain the delicate supplies from the CBN within the presence of the political events and different electoral stakeholders by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
He stated the delicate supplies could be saved at state INEC Headquarters, Enugu, for distribution earlier than 8:00 a.m. for the ballot.
In line with him, the problem of outcome sheets shall be resolved, and there shall be no errors once more.
The rerun couldn’t be held on February 3 because of the lack of outcome sheets on the polling models, inflicting the train to be postponed.
Mr Achumie stated, “We can even have efficient monitoring and supervision as the majority of our high administration workers shall be within the area to make sure that all goes nicely.
“We’re calling on the citizens within the eight polling models within the Uwani axis of Enugu metropolis to come back out en masse to forged their votes for his or her most well-liked candidates.”
Emeka Ngene of the LP and his PDP opponent, Sam Ngene, would slug it out for the 4,618 votes in Ward 5, the place the rescheduled rerun election would maintain.
INEC declared PDP’s Mr Ngene, who polled 5,862 votes within the March 18, 2023 election, the winner and issued him the certificates of return.
Though the Court docket of Enchantment didn’t nullify the election outcome, it ordered a rerun within the ward as a result of some irregularities.
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