The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has reaffirmed that the 2023 general election will take place in spite of the many attacks on the facilities of the electoral commission across the country.
The chairman made this revelation at Chatham House, London, Tuesday, January 17, 2023.
Yakubu condemned the growing rate of attacks on the facilities of the electoral umpire, saying the election will hold in the country.
He said 50 facilities of the electoral commission were attacked in four years.
The chairman said the commission would rebuild the vandalized facilities.
“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.