INEC: Elections won’t hold in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa unless...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
says it will not deploy its staff for the conduct of elections
in the troubled states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa unless
their (staff's) security is guaranteed.
The chief press secretary to INEC Chairman Professor
Attahiru Jega, Mr. Kayode Idowu, stated this last night
while featuring on a Channels Television programme
tagged "Politics Today" which was monitored by our
correspondent.
Idowu noted that INEC had always expressed its readiness
to conduct elections in all states of the federation,
including the three states ravaged by the Boko Haram
insurgency.
He, however, said the commission was optimistic that the
security challenges in the three states would be
appropriately handled by the security forces for elections
to hold there.
He said: "The commission's position has always been that
the security of every staff to be deployed, either adhoc or
permanent, has to be guaranteed by the security agencies
and that is why the commission has always said that it will
work in close collaboration with the security agencies to
make sure that for it to deploy its staff to these areas, the
security agencies will have to be on top of the game," he
said.
--DAILY TRUST