{"id":88126,"date":"2021-11-06T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T06:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88126"},"modified":"2021-11-06T07:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T06:27:48","slug":"anambra-decides-be-vigilant-committed-inec-chairman-admonishes-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/anambra-decides-be-vigilant-committed-inec-chairman-admonishes-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Anambra Decides: Be Vigilant, Committed, INEC Chairman Admonishes Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1715657161109737994\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has charged staff of the Commission to remain vigilant, principled and committed to the vision and mission of the electoral umpire during the Anambra governorship poll.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">Prof Yakubu, who disclosed this in a message to INEC staff ahead of the Anambra governorship election, noted that all the staff must ensure that every single vote counts.He stressed that all staff of the Commission must be guided by the extant laws, guidelines, regulations and good conscience.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cYou must remain true to our commitment that only the voters in Anambra State determine who becomes the next governor of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn doing so, you must be guided by the extant laws, our guidelines\/regulations and good conscience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you are aware, Nigerians expect the Anambra Governorship election to be an improvement on the high standards achieved in recent elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cOver the next few days, all eyes will be on us. As you are aware, Nigerians expect the Anambra Governorship election to be an improvement on the high standards achieved in recent elections. That is why we introduced the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for fingerprint and facial biometric authentication of voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have trained staff on the new technology. We have also delivered all sensitive and non-sensitive materials for the election on schedule, deployed election duty staff, and made logistics arrangements to move personnel and materials to thousands of locations in Anambra State where voting and collation of results will take place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that all sensitive and non-sensitive materials have been delivered for the election on schedule, election duty staff deployed and logistics arrangements made to move personnel and materials to thousands of locations in Anambra State where voting and collation of results will take place.<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-6228595941595198433ymail_android_signature\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has charged staff of the Commission to remain vigilant, principled and committed to the vision and mission of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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