Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in charge of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Kwara State, Mallam Garba Attahiru Madami, has offered clarifications on the 23 staff of the commission allegedly caught in illegal voters registration, stating that the figure, while correct, represent the total number of staff in the country caught in the malpractice.
He clarified this at the weekend after what appears to be a misunderstanding of some bullet points in his speech last Wednesday when he held a stakeholders meeting on the forthcoming election.
Speaking through the state’s INEC public affairs and protocol officer, Abdulkadir Bolaji Ibrahim, he explained that no Kwara staff of INEC was caught.
“Rather, the figure represents the total number of staff across the country who were caught in irregular registration across the country,” he said.
During the stakeholders forum held earlier in the week, the Kwara INEC REC said that the forum became necessary as first step to ensuring hitch free elections next year.
“I want to tell stakeholders that that we are ready to protect the electoral process by conducting free, fair, transparent, peaceful and credible elections which will acceptable to Kwarans”, he said.