The National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has suspended all workers found defaulting the last Saturday polls from partaking in forthcoming gubernatorial and house of assembly elections.
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the commission disclosed this yesterday in a post-presidential elections discussion with Electoral Commissioners in Abuja.
He tasked the electoral staff to accelerate efforts in the next polls to avoid replication of the challenges faced in the previous exercise.
“As we approach the governorship and state assembly elections, we must put in more effort to overcome the problems we faced in the last election. Nigerians will not accept anything after this,” he said.
Yakubu vowed that all the defaulting workers; whether INEC staff or ad-hoc workers would not be allowed to participate in the next polls.
He added: All the workers who were found negligent, whether they are INEC staff or ad-hoc workers, including those who gather results and poll workers, we will not allow them to participate in the upcoming election.
“Electoral Commissioners must take appropriate measures in areas where there is evidence that things have been done wrong.”
WikkiTimes had last week reported that late arrival of election materials and the incompetence of the staff in some polling units in some places frustrated voters during the presidential election.
The INEC boss insisted that this would not be replicated and the forthcoming elections would be more effective than the last one.
Professor Yakubu had on Wednesday declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes, defeating Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who came second with 6,984,520 votes.
