The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, has said that the commission will continue with the conduct of the 2023 general election in spite of the recurrent attacks on its facilities in parts of the country,
The INEC Chairman gave the assurance speaking at the Chatham House on Tuesday in London, the United Kingdom.
He condemned the criminal attacks and destruction of the facilities of the electoral body ahead of the general elections.
According to him, 50 facilities of the commission have been attacked and burnt in the past four years stressing that the commission would have to rebuild such damaged facilities,
He said, “In four years, 50 facilities (have been) attacked in various parts of the country. The implications of the attacks is that we have to rebuild facilities and replace materials.
“The commission and security agencies have increased their presence in some of these locations.
“The last attack happened on Sunday last week but because of the cooperation between the military and the electoral commission, we were able to respond and the damage was limited to just a section of the building in a local government office.
“The commission has repeatedly called for concerted efforts to control and check these attacks and in December last year the National Assembly held a public hearing on these attacks and we hope that authorities have these attacks under control and the response by the security agencies is more coordinated.
But in spite of these attacks we will rebuild facilities and replace damaged and lost items, the elections will hold.”
