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-assures timely deployment of items at polling units
By Abdullahi Idris, Bauchi
In preparation ahead of the 18th March gubernatorial and state assembly elections, the Bauchi State Office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced the distribution of sensitive materials.
Besides, assured the residents of the state of timely distributions of material items across the 20 LGAs in the State.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Alh Mohammed Nura gives the assurance during distributions of the sensitive materials at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Wednesday in Bauchi, saying that today we’re here to distribute the sensitive materials in the custody of the CBN to the various LGAs across the State.
He noted that last time the Commission had distributed the items on Thursday and they reached the local government headquarters on the same day in all the 20 LGA, where they’ve Friday and Saturday morning to escalate to the polling units.
According to the REC, said the main reason for this early commencement of the distributions of the materials is to have enough time to see if there is any shortfall in the items in the boxes and for us see to how we can report the same to the headquarters for early replacement of the remaining shortfall items before the Saturday’s exercise on the 18th March 2023.
He explained that during the presidential and national assembly elections the items were distributed at the INEC office, but this time the Commission decided to do the exercise here at CBN because the items are not much like that of the presidential elections.
Interview with some of the stakeholders comprising of party agents, securities, as well as elections observers during the distribution of the items, all the stakeholders expressed satisfaction and confidence with the overall process.
Apex news reports that items distributed include Form EC 8B (1) and Ballot Papers for the governorship and state assembly elections in the State.
