INEC to provide emergency telephones at polling centres in Zamfara

Gusau - The Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) in Zamfara on Friday said it would provide
emergency telephone lines at all the 2,516 polling units
in the state during the general elections.
Alhaji Abubakar Wara, the Resident Electoral
Commissioner (REC) in the state, made this known at a
meeting with civil society organisations and persons
with disability in Gusau.
He said that the telephones would be used by the
electorate in channelling their complaints to the
commission during elections.
Wara said that no election could be conducted in the
country without incidents of misbehaviours by
miscreants, who would try to defend their political
party's or master's interest.
"We will, therefore, not take it lightly with any offenders
as adequate security personnel will be put in place.
"There are laws available in the nation's Constitution to
penalise any election offender from possessing more
than one voter card or to vote more than once or
causing havoc during elections.
"To ensure free, fair and credible elections in the state,
we have already enlightened people via radio and
television jingles and we are still ready to make
numbers available for questions regarding election
process and procedures," he said.
The commissioner expressed the readiness of INEC to
conduct free, fair and credible elections in the state, and
called on the public to remain law-abiding and come out
to exercise their franchise peacefully.
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