28th March, 2015
Cyriacus Izuekwe/Enugu
Members of the National Youth Service Corps who are ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were stranded today at INEC office in Enugu, eastern Nigeria, as there was no vehicle to take them to polling stations to carry out the voters accredition exercise.
As there seemed to be no solution to the problem, INEC had to make arrangement to convey most of them in trucks to the polling stations.
In spite of this develpoment, INEC declared that it was ready to conduct free, fair and credible elections in the state as it has distributed all the sensitive materials to all the polling units across the state.
Making this known is the director of INEC Information, Dr (Mrs) Anthonia Ekwo at the INEC who expressed the readiness of INEC.
She said the number of registered voters in the state was 1,412,518, while those who collected the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, were 1,26,0496.
She explained that the number of registered female voters who collected their PVCs was 655,725 while men was 604,773.
Ekwo said the percentage of distributed PVCs in the state was 89% and undistributed PVCs was 152,022 which is 11 percent.
As at the 9:00 am most of the polling units were yet to commence accreditation.