From Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Following the vacancy created by the death of the member representing Kauru/Chawai constituency, Hon. Shuaibu Tukur, in the Kaduna state House of Assembly, a bye-Election has been scheduled to hold tomorrow to fill the vacancy.
Addressing stakeholders at the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Kaduna office on the level of preparedness on the part of the commission, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Alhaji Haliru Aliyu Tambuwal, disclosed that only the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressive Congress (APC) fielded candidates for the election.
He further disclosed that the Commission had received adequate sensitive and non-sensitive election materials, adding that “the Ballot papers and result sheets are in the custody of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Kaduna for safe keeping”. He requested that contesting political parties should send in their representatives yesterday for the delivery of the sensitive materials from CBN to the local government area.
According to the REC, “Kauru/Chawai constituency has 11 registration areas,177 polling units with 382 voting points in order to ease the accreditation process.
“In order to achieve the dream of the Commission for free, fair and credible elections, the Commission employed the services of 570 serving NYSC members to serve as Supervisory Presiding Officers, Presiding Officers and Assistant Presiding Officers. Similarly, the
Commission deployed security agents in all the polling units, 3 each at polling unit, 6 each at collation centers and 20 at the local government collation Centro” he stated.
Meanwhile, he implored all stakeholders, particularly the contesting parties, to operate within the confines of the law, and urged their supporters to act maturely before, during and after the bye election.”I will like to appeal to all the stakeholders for their maximum cooperation for the Commission’s success in this bye election and 2015 general elections as well” he solicited.
All the stakeholders and the political parties at the end of the meeting assured of their maximum support to ensure that the bye election is free of any violence.
