The Resident Electoral Commissioner Independent Electoral Commission Bayelsa State, Emmanuel Alex-Hart has assured that no mater the time factor, the sensitive materials will get to the hinterlands right on time before tomorrow’s election.
Speaking on Friday at the Central Bank of Nigeria premises where the distribution of sensitive materials were going on, Hart said already those going to the hinterlands like Southern Ijaw, Ekeremor and Brass were already packaged and ready for onward movement.
Although as at the time of talking to the REC around after eleven O’clock in the morning, the materials were yet to leave the premises of CBN but he assured that it must get to the designated areas before tomorrow.
He said, “For those going far, they are getting ready like Southern Ijaw, Ekeeremor and Brass. Yenagoa is going to be the last because they are the landlord.
“The sensitive materials are going straight to the rack centers. We started the whole operation yesterday. That is the unboxing of the results sheets, very important and we are here to make sure that everything goes on smoothly and as we speak, the political observers are there watching. We are bent on delivering everything transparently.”
Also said, the party agent for ADC Victor Fissi confirmed that all the sensitive materials were intact but complained that the registered voters list was not given to party agents.
He stated, “The list of PVC’s collected were not given to party agents so how are we going to know how many PVC’s were collected? For now, I’m confused here because we don’t know what is going on here.
“Before now, INEC used to give us a soft copy but INEC is now claiming that they have sent those lists to the national and before now state INEC used to distribute those things.
“I’m not also satisfied with the whole thing considering the time factor all these things are going to the hinter land and they are still here or are they going to send this materials through the air. We have 105 rack centers so how are they sure that they can complete this before tomorrow?
“INEC should be fast. They should call the EOs to come here with their buses to see how they can transport those materials to the various rack centers. He said.
