A total number of 28, 703 officials, including Supervisory Presiding Officers, Presiding Officers and Assistant Presiding Officers have been trained by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Oyo state for the forthcoming Election
Resident Electoral Commissioner, ( REC) Barrister Mutiu Agboke also said that about 90 per cent of sensitive materials have been received at the state level.
He also disclosed that 2,116,229 PVCs have so far been collected while 846,417 PVCs remained unclaimed.
The REC who gave this hints on Tuesday while briefing journalists on the readiness of the commission to conduct free, fair, and credible election in the forthcoming poll said Oath form would be administered on all the categories of ad-hoc staff that were expected to participate in the elections, and while speaking on logistic.
The commissioner maintained that the commission had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with National Union of Road Transport Workers and the National Association of Road Transport Owners to ensure early and prompt arrival of materials and staff at the various polling units on the election days.
Agboke promised to domesticate the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the State level with the aim of achieving the same purpose.
The electoral boss said the commission had a total of 7,336 Smart Card Readers available out of which 6,390 would be required to take care of 6,390 polling units in the state and urged owners of unclaimed PVCs to use the few days remaining to collect them in order to enjoy the opportunity of voting.
Agboke said that six females out of 42 candidates will jostle for the Governorship seat while 17 political parties fielded females as Deputy Governorship Candidates, adding that
“26 females out of 202 candidates would contest for the 14 Federal Constituencies of the state, regarding the House of Assembly in the state; there are 654 candidates and 49 political parties contesting for the 32 State Constituencies
While appealing to residents and other stakeholders to corporate with the electoral umpire to achieve the goal of conducting free and fair election , Agboke maintained that anybody who intend to violate the electoral law will face the music.
