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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has foreclosed supplementary elections in areas where thugs disrupted the process and destroyed electoral materials.
The Commission has also said that it has started releasing accreditation data contained in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) from the Presidential and National Assembly elections to political parties and other Nigerians who may be interested in them.
According the electoral umpire, the accreditation data had been stored in the Commission’s back end before the BVAS machines were reconfigured for last Saturday’s governorship election.
Chairman of the agency’s Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, a National Commissioner, told reporters in Abuja that one of its staff was killed during the governorship elections.
Okoye, who, however, did not give details, said a number of other INEC personnel were either abducted, harassed or being intimidated.
He said: “By the provisions of the Constitution, the Electoral Act and our rules and guidelines, there are various steps to be taken when certain things did not work right.