This Day
27 April 2011
In apparent reaction to what happened at the two previous polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it is beaming its searchlight at the collation centres where most of the frauds are likely to be committed and where a lot of complaints have emanated from some political parties.
The parties alleged that some under-hand dealings take place at the centres to ensure that a particular political party wins the elections.
INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Publicity, Prince Adedeji Soyebi, told journalists in Abuja yesterday that all the party agents had been told and given a special phone numbers which they could use to report any deliberate attempt to stop them from going into the collation room as had been alleged during the past elections.
“Our attention will now shift more to the collation centres. Any party agent that is denied access to any collation centre should report to us immediately because we at INEC want to conduct an election that will be free, fair and credible. We also task the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to go beyond going to the polling units but to follow the result even to the collation centres,” he said.
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