The official speaks on the challenges of conducting violence-free elections as well as allegations of partisanship levelled against staff.
Rivers State is ill-famed for bloody electoral violence, which evokes fears whenever elections are to hold in the state. In the December 2016 rerun polls, it took weeks for the Independent National Electoral Commission to announce all results after violence engulfed the exercise. The last February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections were affected by violence which forced declaration of no voting and failure to collate results in six local government areas.
We are a part of the inter-agency consultative committee on election security. We are discussing with security agencies and fashioning out how best to address some of the security concerns. PT: We were at a collation centre for the last presidential election where two electoral officers separately made direct allegations that the military came to disrupt the collation process and the military has since not responded. Has there has been any form of explanation to you on what happened by the military.
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