With less than 25 days to the general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has said that the scarcity of the Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, may affect the movement of election materials and election personnel.
The INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, made this known in a meeting with the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Abuja on Tuesday.
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Yakubu said the commission would be meeting with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, to resolve any issues that might affect logistics delivery and personnel movement on election day.
In other news, a video has surfaced showing a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, collecting money from registered voters before they can collect their Permanent Voters’ Card, PVC.
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The incident according to the video took place at the Commission’s PVC collection centre at Emene, Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State.The INEC Director for Voter Education and Publicity, Victor Aluko, had in one of the Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, described as false, allegations that its staff members were colluding with certain people to prevent eligible Nigerians from collecting their PVCs.
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