By Yemi Adeleye
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Thursday met with heads of security agencies, logistics experts, transport unions and other stakeholders to ensure seamless deployment of elections materials and personnel in 2019.
The News Agency of Nigerian (NAN) reports that INEC organised the “Conference on Logistics for the 2019 General Elections’’ in collaboration with the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES).
The event was equally supported by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).
It was aimed at enhancing timely delivery of materials and personnel to polling units during the 2019 General Elections.
Declaring the conference open, Yakubu said that Nigerians would expect polling units to be opened at 8.00a.m. on election days – Feb. 16, 2019, and March 2, 2019.
“If we don’t open the polling units at 8.00a.m., it means we have not started well, but how do we open polling units at 8.00a.m.?
“It…
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