Bayelsa gov poll: Attacks on our staff will not be tolerated —INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission has warned that it would not accept any form of attack on its personnel, ad hoc staff or materials to be deployed for the Bayelsa State November 16, governorship election.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu gave the warning on Tuesday in Yenegoa during the commission’s interactive session with the members of the Bayelsa Traditional Rulers Council.

Yakubu said in addition to governorship election in Bayelsa, INEC would be concluding Brass II State Constituency Election in Brass Local Government Area on the same day.

He also warned that the commission would not tolerate the issue of vote buying.

He said that as an honest broker, INEC was committed to conducting free, fair, credible, conclusive and acceptable election in Bayelsa.

Yakubu said, “We are concerned about utterances likely to breach peace during the campaign, on election day and during the collation of results.

“Let me remind the candidates that the commission working with the security will not accept attack(s) on your children, the people will engage on election day.

“We are going to engage over 10,000 young Nigeria across the state.

“We are concerned about the mobilisation of armed persons to the voting and collation centres as we experienced in previous elections,” he said.

(NAN)