INEC Approves Policy To Conduct Elections Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

A file photo of INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, addressing a press conference in Abuja. Photo: Channels TV/ Sodiq Adelakun.The Independent National Electoral Commission has approved a policy to conduct elections despite the outbreak of coronavirus in the country.

According to the INEC spokesperson, the commission is committed to conducting all elections that are due within the extant legal framework. The Independent National Electoral Commission met today, 21st May 2020, and approved its “Policy on Conducting Elections in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic”. Conducting elections in a pandemic such as COVID-19 is yet uncharted waters. Only very few jurisdictions have any experience with this.

Let us know d policy first.

What of citizens of Edo state not in Edo state presently because of the interstate lockdown, how will they vote?

INEC should begin to consider electronic or online voting. There's a paradigm shift in the way things are done now. We can't afford to use analogue method in a digital age.

Corruption don faint this man.

Where the relevant stakeholders engaged ?

This is a joke right?

INEC is only lookin at d money 2b made frm d exercise rather than d outcome of d election. Na only God go help my country 😣 🇳🇬

1 reason why Covid-19 will never be taken seriously

Edo and Ondo are good to go

Kano election is rigged

Ehen that’s cos corona is a scam in Nigeria We know all this things

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