Insecurity: Over hundred Corp members withdraw their participation in Saturday’s election

At least 100 corp members have been skilled to be electoral officers and assistant presiding officers in three totally different areas in Imo State, they usually all determined to not take part within the election on Saturday. .

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is making ready for the elections scheduled for Saturday. Its Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State, Syl Agu, stated this yesterday.

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The corps members stated they have been fearful about their security.

The REC (Remote Area Development) came upon that all the corps members that they’d skilled to work within the Okigwe, Orlu and Orsu local authorities areas have been withdrawn. They are saying that they’ll’t go to areas which are thought-about to be very harmful, as a result of they could possibly be at risk from terrorists.

I’ve referred to as the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to ask them to rethink their determination to not ship any corps members to serve within the three native authorities areas.

The REC defined that the corps members withdrew their participation following the fee’s determination to make use of polling models as a substitute of stadiums within the unstable areas.

The commission has had some issues accumulating voter playing cards previously in Okigwe, Orlu, Njaba, Orsu, Iheme/Mbano, Oru West, and Oru East native authorities areas.

The low turnout for the collection in Okigwe axis prompted some issues and so the stakeholders within the space got here up with a plan to break down 5 registration areas into Okigwe stadium for the voting. It labored nicely and was very spectacular.