Civil society group advises INEC on electoral violence

A Civil Society Organisation, Yiaga Africa, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to be intentional in averting and reducing post-election violence that may occur because of result computation across the country.

It added that favouritism, nepotism and mediocracy would be eliminated across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory if INEC was willing to regain the confidence of Nigerians and conduct a credible election.

The group stated that in the next 23 days, INEC must as a matter of urgency, collaborate with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria districts across the states and the FCT to train its ad-hoc staff on completing the results sheets at the polling units and ward collation centres to reduce bureaucracy.

The collaborations, it added, could be made between the districts and the Resident Electoral Commissioners in the various states.

It noted that the collaboration would enable ICAN to mobilise members across its districts who would simplify the result recording on form EC8A so that the ad-hoc staff, especially presiding officers, could have full understanding on how to compute accurately the eight basic elements in the form.

The elements are number of voters on the register, number of accredited voters, number of ballot papers issued to the polling unit, number of unused ballot papers, number of spoiled ballot papers, number of rejected ballots, number of total votes and total number of used ballot papers.

YIAGA added that the outcome of the election tribunal in Osun should serve as an ‘expo’ to INEC on what would be the outcome of the elections that will be conducted in the 176,846 polling units across the nation.

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