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By Lawrence Agbo
INEC maintains that no voters were moved and adds that split polling places were set up to ease traffic during the FCT polls.
During the FCT elections, INEC prohibited voters from moving to polling places other than their original ones.
Wilfred Ifogah, Acting Director of INEC Voter Education and Publicity (VEP), said in a statement that the commission created split voting units at major polling places with more than 1,250 registered voters to prevent traffic on election day.
“The commission, however, noted challenges encountered by some voters in locating their designated polling units.
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“Contrary to the claim in some quarters that some voters were migrated to another/ new polling units different from their original polling units, the commission wishes to state categorically that voters were not migrated, what the commission did was to create split polling units in large polling units with voters registration of over 1,250 voters to avoid congestion on election day.
“The split units are located some few meters away from the original polling units within the same premises,” Ifogah stated.
Ifogah added, “The public will recall that the commission displayed the register of voters at designated centres/split polling units four days to the Area Council elections to enable voters confirm their details and polling unit locations.”
According to him, the impacted voters received emails and SMS messages on February 18, 19, 20, and 21 with the precise locations of their divided polling places. According to him, the notifications were only meant to serve as a reminder to help people locate their present polling places.
Ifogah stated that all polling places were verified to be open by 10 a.m. on election day, whereas 45% of polling places opened for voting at 8:30 a.m., according to the commission’s Election Operations Dashboard.
