INEC Clarifies Ban On Phone Usage Ahead Osun Election

INEC boss Mahmood Yakubu

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cautioned legislators not to misjudge its constituent guidelines for their narrow minded points. 

The Osun state Resident Electoral Commission, Olusegun Agbaje, expressed this on Friday at a question and answer session at the commission's office in Osogbo, the state capital. 

He said it was not genuine that the commission had requested that voters not come to surveying units with their telephones, including that the commission just requested that voters not hold their telephones inside the voting work space, in an offer to control vote-purchasing. 

Agbaje additionally cautioned legislators and voters against vote-purchasing, and vote-offering, saying the commission was prepared to release the full rage of the law on anybody found doing as such. 

He stated, "It is vital to by and by eliminate any confusion air on some unmerited charges being hawked around by some basic partners, for example, the forbidding of telephones and different cameras at the surveying unit; giving out of uncollected Permanent Voter Cards to a specific political gathering; setting up the Smart Card Readers to support a specific political gathering; and that INEC will be one-sided amid the race. 

"The claims are not valid. They are fabrications of the creative energies of those that influenced them, as they to have not possessed the capacity to substantiate them as I address you. INEC did not put a prohibition on telephones and other camera gadgets at the surveying units. 

"What INEC said is that voters ought not convey their telephones or other camera gadgets into the voting work areas where the voter will check the vote in order to shield the mystery of the tally. 

"Voters are allowed to accompany their telephones and other camera gadgets; we are stating that at the work space where they will cast their votes, they can't be permitted to run in with anything aside from the voting materials."