Rigging during elections by any political party or staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is no longer possible in Nigeria, a top official of the electoral umpire said this yesterday.

He also chided those purportedly saying the independence of INEC had been usurped by the presidency, saying the argument could not stand because the electoral empire had in the last three years organized dozens of off- season elections with the opposition parties especially the PDP winning many of them.

The source who dismissed the outcry by the opposition over alleged plans by the ruling APC to rig the 2019 elections in collaboration with INEC said communication technology had given the electorate the power to choose their leaders without undue interference.

He also confirmed that the card reader which ensured credible elections since 2015 would be deployed to the nearly 30,000 polling units across the country in forthcoming elections; a development he said would shield the process from manipulation.

The official also said there was no plan to create additional polling units ahead of 2019 despite the fact that many communities and settlements had outgrown the current number of polling units in the country.

“No polling units will be created before the 2019 elections. If you create polling units, you have to populate them, then it will create confusion and you will have to replace the voters.

“What the commission has resolved to do is to decongest the existing polling units by creating voting points within the same location where voters exceed 500 in a particular point.

“Under the leadership of Prof. Attahiru Jega, the commission conducted an audit of all polling units. Before then, some polling units were located in shrines and different places. But with the audit, we now have 119,973 polling units across the country and there are no more obscure polling units,” the official said.

The official added that this was the time for politicians and political parties to put their acts together; join hands with election officials and improve on the already improved credibility of INEC as shining example in Africa.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/rigging-no-longer-possible-in-nigeria-inec-official-254964.html

with the help of Russia anything is possible.

Nigerian election and rigging is like 5 & 6. You can't take away one from the other.

Most of the INEC ad-hoc and permanent staff look forward to elections because of the money they will make out of it. They sell ballot papers, falsify documents and do all manner of things and at the end of the election, those collating the result are even too tired to notice.

Having a free and fair election in Naija for now is only a dream!

Rigging is not possible but voting by underage voters is possible... who is deceiving who

Rigging that has gone scientific!!!

The INEC by it's words keeps showing it's hell bent on rigging the election in favour of the evil called Buhari

INEC is only fooling itself.Yet the clear case of under-aged voters in the last Kano LGA poll was swept under the carpet
The failure to issue PVCs to desiring voters is a clear sign of impending rigging by INEC.

Waiting for confirmation in 2019

but Billing is possible

Story

Jokers

Iffa hear

Na wash..

Lie from the pit of Hell...

If there is one thing I know, if you don't know the number of accredited voters recorded in their machine in an election, rigging would be a failed mission because the rigged votes could be in excess of the number of accredited voters which would lead to cancellation

All na wash

Rigging is no longer possible, but we can't collect our PVC


Rigging is no longer possible, but underage voters were voting in Kano



Please tell us another story

Maybe he is talking about anther country.
Definitely not Nigeria

In Nigeria my country,anything and everything is possible but in most cases it is the bad things that usually prevail.

Noted.

Thanks for the development

Obj laid a very good foundation of broad day rigging in the Nigeria electoral system in 2007 before he left but we thank God we have a better government who is trying to put everything in order.

God bless pmb...
God bless Nigeria

That's means Nigeria passed that Level

I like this government, they know how to Bleep with peoples minds.

Rigging no longer possible indeed.

Farmer ties squirrel to beer bottle and flogs it for stealing his crops (Photos + Video)

for una mind.

Dumdumfashion:
Nigerian election and rigging is like 5 & 6. You can't take away one from the other.

Most of the INEC ad-hoc and permanent staff look forward to elections because of the money they will make out of it. They sell ballot papers, falsify documents and do all manner of things and at the end of the election, those collating the result are even too tired to notice.

Having a free and fair election in Naija for now is only a dream!

If you've ever worked as an adhoc staff you'll realise that what you've just described cannot be carried out by a mere adhoc staff but by the ogas at the top.

chai

Are you kidding me? The Lai Virus has spread over every facet of governance

Election that has already been rigged...

You can never separate Paul and Barnabas
Rigging; Nigerian electoral system's best friend

If you know you know