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Bayelsa gov poll: Attacks on INEC staff will not be tolerated —Prof. Yakubu
 
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Wed, 16 Oct 2019   ||   Nigeria,
 

The Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu gave the warning in Yenegoa on Tuesday during the commission’s interactive session with the members of the Bayelsa Traditional Rulers Council.

Yakubu said in addition to governorship election in Bayelsa, INEC would be concluding Brass II State Constituency Election in Brass Local Government Area on the same day.

The chairman also warned that the commission would not tolerate the issue of vote buying.

He said that as an honest broker, INEC was committed to conducting free, fair, credible, conclusive and acceptable election in Bayelsa.

Yakubu said, “We are concerned about utterances likely to breach peace during the campaign, on election day and during the collation of results.

“Let me remind the candidates that the commission working with the security will not accept attack(s) on your children, the people will engage on election day.

“We are going to engage over 10,000 young Nigeria across the state.

“We are concerned about the mobilisation of armed persons to the voting and collation centers as we experienced in previous elections,” he said.

 

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