Oyo REC says presidential, NASS candidates can’t campaign before Saturday, 23
Oyo REC says presidential, NASS candidates can’t campaign before Saturday, 23
Oyo REC says presidential, NASS candidates can’t campaign before Saturday, 23
Mr. Mutiu Agboke, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Oyo State, has declared that all Presidential and National Assembly candidates contesting in the rescheduled elections, cannot engage in campaign activities before next Saturday.

Agboke, who in a phone call to a programme aired on Fresh FM, Ibadan, said the decision to postpone election was necessitated by the acute shortage of election materials.

He said, “For example, in Oyo state, we received the full complement (election materials) for House of Representative ballot papers and result sheets. And also, Oyo South and Oyo North senatorial districts ballot papers, with shortfalls in Oyo Central and other sensitive materials like that.”

Asked to comment on the said logistics problem, Agboke said, “I am not a member of the committee that procured them. I am only the resident electoral commissioner. I’m only to receive these materials, and when they’ve not come, I can’t fabricate materials.”

On how credible this year’s elections would be, Agboke replied, saying, “As I speak to you, we have retrieved all the sensitive materials to the state office. We have tightened up the security. We have within our premises the full presence of various categories of the Nigeria Police Force; the people in the red cap, the people in the black cap, the regular police that you know. In fact, they have been reinforced with the presence of the Nigerian Army. They are all here, knowing fully well that we have all these materials back at the state office. So, the materials are intact, nothing has happened to them and nothing will happen to them.”


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