The Senate Committee on Electoral Matters has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) asking it to stop the creation of additional 30,000 polling units across the country.
Committee chairman Andy Uba told journalists in Abuja yesterday that while the idea behind the creation of additional units was good, the timing was wrong and as such it must be stopped.
“We have sent a letter to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and we expressed our reservations over the planned creation of additional polling units across the country,” Uba said.
“What he is doing is good but the timing is wrong. We are close to an election year and we have so many displaced people in the North eastern part of the country.
So where will the INEC put the new polling units?”
Uba also said, “If they (INEC) continue with it (new polling centres), we will pass a resolution to overrule it. It is simple, and once we pass our resolution is he going to go ahead that he doesn’t care?
“There are consequences when you say you don’t care, that is what it is but I know he (Jega) is a gentleman and he is a man that keeps to his words. We had a meeting and have sent him a letter.”
