By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Oyo State, Barrister Mutiu Agboke has declared that the commission is set to curb electoral malpractices in the 2023 general elections
Addressing newsmen on Tuesday at a valedictory programme held in his honour/media briefing in Ibadan, the REC hinted that the commission has deployed all available means to curb electoral malpractices in the general elections
Barrister Agboke maintained that the commission is passionate to conduct free, fair and transparent elections in 2023, adding that gone are the days when hoodlums and thugs will disrupt elections and go away with it.
The REC whose five years tenure is ending this Wednesday noted that any hoodlum or thug who intends to disrupt elections will have himself or herself blamed and that any election conducted in a polling unit and disrupted by hoodlums or thugs will be cancelled by the commission.
Emphasizing that gone are the days when hoodlums or thugs will disrupt elections and go away with it, Barrister Agboke stressed that
” hoodlums and thugs have no business at the polling units. Because, if they disrupt the election in a polling unit, that election will be cancelled by the INEC.”
” And now, the election result in a polling unit will be unloaded on the INEC website. So, if we conduct an election in a place and the hoodlums hijacked it, that will not affect the sanctity of the election because the result has been uploaded on the INEC website”, he said
Barrister Agboke added, ” even before we gets to the collation centre, the election result is already on the website. So, hoodlums or thugs who want to disrupt the election is waisting his time”.
