Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ekiti has distributed sensitive materials meant for the poll.
The materials were distributed at the INEC state office in Ado-Ekiti in the presence of journalists, party and security agents to the electoral officers in the 16 local government areas of the state.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Adeniran Tella, who distributed the materials, said the electoral officers would take the items to their councils where they would be sent to the polling units on Saturday’s morning.
He expressed the hope that there would be no late arrival of materials to polling units on Saturday.
Tella said the ballot papers were coloured coded for each local government in order to prevent Electoral fraud.
He added that the result sheets were also customized according to the polling units.
Some of the materials distributed were, Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BIVAS machines, Ballot papers, Result sheets, Booklets, , Forms EC 8A, B, C, D,E, forms EC 4zero G, 4 zero G1 and 2.
