Anambra election, Jega promises creditably!

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor

Attahiru Jega, yesterday, declared that Saturday’s governorship election in 

Anambra State would be the best election so far in the country.




Speaking during a stakeholders’ forum at the Women Development Centre, 

Awka, Jega said the commission had made adequate preparation to ensure a 

credible, free and fair election.

However, he appealed to political parties and their candidates to cooperate 

with the commission to actualise the goal, as INEC would give all the parties 

and candidates a level playing ground.

He said INEC had corrected the errors in the controversial voters’ registers 

earlier given to political parties, adding that the mistakes were computer 

errors.

Presenting the corrected copies of the voters’ register to political parties, Jega

 asked them to carefully study them and raise objections where necessary 

before the election.


“We are transparent and we will continue to be transparent and fair to all the

 parties. We are human beings and we can make mistakes and correct them.

“We have concluded the training of our staff, we have introduced security 

features to protect our ballot papers and ballot boxes for every polling unit

with a unique code number for each unit so that you can not take a ballot 

paper from one unit to another,” he said.

On multiple registration, the INEC boss said that the commission had already 

arrested some defaulters and were concluding arrangements to prosecute 

them and warned voters in the state who had double registration not to go to 

the polling units on Saturday as security agents had been directed to arrest 

any offender.

Jega warned that there would be no movement of government officials in the 

name of monitoring the election, adding that party agents must wear INEC 

tags to enable them enter and stay at the polling boots assigned to them.

Equally, he advised governorship candidates against going to the polling 

booths to vote with their armed aides, noting that it had caused violence in 

the past.