By Laleye Dipo in Minna
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Niger State has reshuffled its staff ahead of Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections.
Virtually all the ad hoc staff and electoral officers were moved to other locations where they would supervise the election on Saturday.
Prof. Sam Egwu, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), who disclosed this in Minna while addressing a forum organised by the Ministry of Information Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on the conduct of the 2019 general election, said the movement of the staff was to achieve better efficiency in the discharge of their assignments.
“They are not sacked. I don’t have power to sack them but I have power to move them round. I will take responsibility for anything that happens as a result of this,” he said.
He however said that some of the electoral officers were not very diligent in the discharge of…
