LAFIA– AHEAD OF THE FEBRUARY GENERAL ELECTION, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has begun distributing non-sensitive materials to Nasarawa State’s 13 local government areas.
Dr. Uthman Ajidagba, Nasarawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, said this Tuesday in Lafia while checking the cars leased to transport supplies from INEC state headquarters.
He stated that the goods were expected to arrive in the commission’s local government offices early enough before the elections to reduce the workload if the commission ahead of the election.
Dr. Uthman Ajidagba explained that the deployment of the nonsensitive materials which is the second level was to allow for timely distribution to Registration Area Centres as well as Electoral Wards across the state, noting that as the general election inches closer, INEC had stepped up preparations to ensure hitch-free exercise in all the polling units.
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“The INEC material ready for distribution include mats, ballot boxes, voters cubicles, and election bags. We are undertaking the early distribution to reduce the workload of the commission in the state”, the commissioner declared.
The Commissioner pointed out
that 9, 710 Permanent Voter Cards are yet to be collected in Nasarawa State stressing that the figure is out of the total number of 122,697 PVCs meant for distribution to eligible voters in the state for the 2023 General Election.
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