The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Professor Mahmud Yakubu, says most attacks carried out on the commission’s facilities across the country have nothing to do with the 2023 elections.
Professor Yakubu made the remark an investigative hearing organised by the House of Representatives Ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the attacks on offices and facilities of INEC across the country.
According to the INEC boss, most of the attacks occur because the facilities are soft targets, located in remote areas that are difficult to secure by the nation’s overstretched security agencies.
The chairman said from 2019 to date, fifty INEC facilities have been attacked and materials destroyed.
Professor Yakubu urged the National Assembly to categorize INEC facilities as high security facilities.
The chairman of the Ad-hoc committee, Mrs Taiwo Oluga, said the committee was set up to unravel the immediate causes of the attacks and the possible effects of the attacks on the conduct of the 2023 general elections.
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