INEC chair, RECs meet over Saturday election experiences

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, is having a meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.

This was disclosed in a tweet INEC released on its Twitter handle, explaining that the body will review the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections held last Saturday, February 23.

It is believed that the RECs will at the meeting share some of the ugly and nice experiences they had during the exercise that was bloody in some places and peaceful in others.

Some of the RECs had alleged that they were forced by some candidates to declare elections in their favour at gun points.

Also, no less than 20 persons reportedly died during the election, while stories of ballot box snatching and other electoral irregularities witnessed during the election are still dominating national discourse days after the exercise.

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It is also expected that INEC will at the meeting look at ways of making better preparation for next week Saturday, March 9, governorship, House of Assembly and FCT elections.

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