Bearing last minute hitches, the national Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has finally declared that all is now set for the conduct of the presidential election slated this Saturday, 25 February.
The different political parties’ presidential candidates and their teeming supporters are currently soak in tension as INEC declared that all machineries have been deployed to ensure a hitch free presidential election.
Prof. Yakubu who made this disclosure during the concluding session of the training of ad hoc staff at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja, said the fear of insecurity has been nipped in the bud following assurances by all the security operatives, including the Nigerian army.
The INEC Chairman who dismissed insinuations of postponement of the elections, also disclosed that the current scarcity of new Banknotes to pay ad hoc staff and workers of the Commission have made readily available consequent upon the earlier promise of the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele.
Prof Yakubu assured that the presidential election would be hitch free following a peace accord earlier endorsed by the presidential candidates of all the political parties participating in the elections.
In less than five days, supporters, workers of the political parties and stakeholders of the electoral system would again converge at the International Conference Centre, ICC in Abuja to witness the collations of the presidential election results, and winner subsequently declared.
The INEC Chairman, however, proceeded to inspect other facilities of the commission in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.
