Ondo Election: There’ll be consequences for dereliction of duty – INEC boss, Yakubu warns staff

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu has warned unit of the electoral assemblage that determination volition beryllium consequences for dereliction of work successful immoderate mode oregon form.

Yakubu gave the informing connected Thursday astatine the stakeholders’ gathering connected the Ondo State governorship predetermination held astatine the International Culture Centre successful Akure.

The Chairman noted the INEC volition further code the staff, including the Electoral Officers from the 18 Local Government Areas connected Friday.

He said, “As you are aware, predetermination is simply a multi-stakeholder activity. INEC has a relation to play and we person done truthful ever successful consultation with stakeholders. However, our relation has to beryllium complemented by each stakeholders.

He urged governmental parties to proceed to restrain their supporters from immoderate disruptive behaviour.

The INEC brag added, “We person produced accreditation tags for each your agents bearing their names, photographs and determination of deployment.

We person besides added a QR codification to the tags that tin beryllium work adjacent from mobile telephone applications.

“The signifier of issuing enactment tags without name, photograph oregon determination of posting to enactment agents indispensable stop.

“That is however successful immoderate polling and collation locations, we person impersonators wherever 2 oregon much radical assertion to beryllium agents of 1 Political Party, sometimes resulting successful unnecessary disagreement among themselves oregon with agents of different parties starring to disruption of processes.

“I impulse Political Parties to travel the illustration of different accredited observers and the media by utilizing the tags issued by the Commission and displaying the aforesaid astatine each voting and collation locations.”

Yakubu besides announced that candidates successful the predetermination are expected to motion the Peace Accord connected Friday, 8th November 2024, astatine 10.00am astatine this venue.

“I invitation you to honour the Peace Committee by your beingness present time and, astir importantly, abide by the presumption of the Accord for a peaceful election.”