Nigeria Decides: Journalists, Foreign Observers Leave Lagos INEC Office Without Accreditation Tags

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Journalists and foreign observers who besieged the Lagos state head office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Yaba, were disappointed as they were dismissed from the premises without accreditation tags.

For several hours, the anxious journalists and foreign observers waited at the INEC office without being attended to.

A Journalist who proffered anonymity, said that no INEC official address them as regards their plight.

“In the convention has been for the Lagos Resident Electoral Commission, REC to arrange a press conference, and at the end, the accreditation tags would be distributed to the Journalists and foreign observers.”

A foreign journalist who gave her name as Merrilyn, expressed disappointment over the untidy arrangements by the Commission.

An election observer, said it was a deliberate ploy to select those to be accredited for the exercise.

He noted that with this disposition of the Commission, the election in the state, would certainly not be seamless.

But an INEC official who would not want her name in print, said that the Commission can only distribute what it has from Abuja.

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