Newsonline reports that INEC said citizens should not entertain fear on whether their votes will count or whether thugs and hoodlums will hijack the voting process.
INEC said it has put all measures in place to ensure 2023 election becomes a free and fair election, without hitches.
Out going Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Oyo State, Mutiu Agboke disclosed this while addressing journalists during a valedictory programme held in his honour in Ibadan.
Mutiu Agboke stated that the electoral commission is passionate to conduct free, fair and transparent elections in 2023.
Speaking on the preparation of the Commission ahead of the 2023 elections, Mutiu Agboke explained that INEC has deployed all available means to curb electoral malpractices.
Mutiu Agboke also warned political parties that any election conducted in a polling unit and disrupted by hoodlums or thugs will be cancelled by the commission.
Agboke said, “Hoodlums and thugs have no business at the polling units. Because, if they disrupt the election in a polling unit, that election will be cancelled by the INEC.
“And now, the election result in a polling unit will be unloaded on the INEC website.
“So, if we conduct an election in a place and the hoodlums hijacked it, that will not affect the sanctity of the election because the result has been uploaded on the INEC website.
“Even before we get to the collation centre, the election result is already on the website.
“So, hoodlums or thugs who want to disrupt the election are wasting time”.
Mutiu Agboke was posted to Oyo state as Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC in 2018 and will end his five-year tenure on Wednesday, 6 July.
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