In a related development,
The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Akwa-Ibom State, Mike Igini on Wednesday said local government elections in Nigeria are nothing but organised crime.
Igini who disclosed this during his appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, accused state governors of interfering in the conduct of the polls at the grassroots.
According to Ingini, Nigeria has lost 774 local governments in Nigeria to every sitting governor of the 36 states in Nigeria.
Igini also reiterated the commitment of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deploy more technology and innovation to further enhance the transparency of the electoral process in Nigeria.
According to him, the use of its public viewing portal during the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States eradicated possible electoral fraud as Nigerians saw the results of each polling unit online almost immediately after casting their ballots.
He also confirm that INEC has made tremendous progress assuring that the INEC of today is no longer the INEC of before maintaining that since 2011, the kind of elections that INEC has conducted had a remarkable departure from where it used to be at the same time noting that INEC has not gotten to where she is supposed to be but making improvements.
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