Election observer group, Centre for Transparency and Advocacy (CTA) has revealed that they saw amazing improvement in logistics from INEC during the Governorship and State Assembly elections.
Mrs Faith Nwadishi, Acting Executive Director of the group said this via a report on the elections that happened in 29 states.
Faith said INEC’s deployment of personnel and materials ensured elections started early and electoral materials and officials arrived on time at venues for several polls.
The report read, “Accreditation and voting started simultaneously between 8:00 a.m. and 8.30 a.m in many polling units.”
“INEC offices in some states were burnt, citizens intimidated, in our opinion, citizens should not lose their lives for participating in elections,”
“However in some specific areas there was a large turnout of voters and upon further investigation, those areas were identified as the strongholds of certain candidates.
“Citizens deployed various ways to get voters out to vote such as the use of town criers but this still did not yield the desired objective.” She said that CTA’s field observers reported many incidents of vote buying
“which were done in the presence of security agents. “Vote buying was in the form of cash and food items.
“In some places, observers reported that husbands were voting for their wives and children voting for their parents.”
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