Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said the commission is logistically ready for the Nov. 6 governorship election in Anambra State.
Speaking during a meeting with the Joint National Assembly Committee on INEC and Electoral Matters on the level of preparedness for the election, Prof Yakubu said the commission has overcome it’s initial setback and ready for the poll.
He said, “We have recovered from the series of attacks on our facilities and I am happy to say that we have deployed all the non-sensitive materials to all the local government areas.
“As far as INEC is concerned, we are good to go on Nov. 6.
“We have trained the requisite number of ad-hoc staff for the election and we have also mobilised members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) for efficient distribution of materials on election day.
“We have a little over 81,000 valid registrants.
“With the suspension of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Anambra that includes a little over 5,000 that applied for replacement of cards and intra-state and inter-state transfers.
“We are batching the cards. They will leave first thing tomorrow (Thursday) morning for Awka and all the new registrants will get their cards before the elections.
“This time around, with the help of technology, we were able to harvest the telephone numbers and email addresses of the registrants.
“So we will contact each and every one of them and tell them where to pick their cards. But the cards will be delivered to Awka on Thursday.”
