Over voting, violence creeping back – INEC

Over-voting and violence are creeping back into elections in the country, a National Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs Amina Zakari, has said.
Amina said this in Abuja, yesterday, during an interactive event organised by the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) and coalition of over 60 civil society organisations that monitored the governorship election in Edo State on September 28.

These problems, she said, led to cancellation of results in some areas.
“Many cancellations were as a result of over-voting,” she said.
“We cannot take any result that cannot stand. Again, violence was another factor. When voters, out of fear, stayed in their homes, the thugs were there to fill in the gap. Generally, the Edo election went well, security-wise.”
She said that despite the destruction of election materials and result sheets by thugs in some polling centres, the commission had succeeded in getting the results back through its online platforms.
She blamed the intra conflict among transport workers in Edo State who were clearly divided along party lines for the transportation hitches witnessed during the election.
She said that the INEC had perfected strategies to conduct conclusive governorship election in Ondo State.