By George Mgbeleke
\nBarely few days to Ekiti Governorship Election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that extensive security arrangements have been put in place to ensure a peaceful, credible and violence-free governorship election in Ekiti State on Saturday June 20, this year.<\/p>\n
The Chairman of INEC, Professor Joash Amupitan, gave the assurance during a mock accreditation exercise in Ado-Ekiti, where the Commission tested the functionality of its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) ahead of the poll.<\/p>\n
According to him, security personnel are being deployed from different parts of the country to identified flashpoints to guarantee the safety of voters, electoral officials and election materials throughout the exercise.<\/p>\n
INEC Boss disclosed that INEC, in collaboration with security agencies, has already mapped out areas of potential concern and put measures in place to prevent any breach of peace during the election.<\/p>\n
Beyond security preparations, the INEC Chairman expressed satisfaction with the performance of the BVAS during the mock accreditation exercise, noting that the device successfully accredited voters within seconds and effectively detected individuals who attempted to verify accreditation outside their designated polling units.<\/p>\n
He explained that the technology now contains safeguards that make it impossible for presiding officers to upload results that do not tally with figures entered on official result sheets, thereby strengthening transparency and credibility in the electoral process.<\/p>\n
Amupitan also dismissed concerns about possible delays in densely populated polling units, stating that INEC\u2019s polling unit splitting arrangement and deployment protocols would ensure seamless accreditation and voting.<\/p>\n
The INEC Chairman further revealed that all non-sensitive election materials have been distributed and batched, while electoral officers across the state have confirmed their readiness for the exercise.<\/p>\n
He expressed confidence that voting would commence as scheduled across the state, assuring residents that the Commission remains fully prepared to deliver a free, fair and credible governorship election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By George Mgbeleke Barely few days to Ekiti Governorship Election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that extensive security arrangements have been put in place to ensure a peaceful, credible and violence-free governorship election in Ekiti State on Saturday June 20, this year. The Chairman of INEC, Professor Joash Amupitan, gave the assurance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14623,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions\/14623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}