Utibe Ekoson
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, yesterday, held an emergency meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security.The emergency meeting was summoned by INEC over recent attacks on the INEC offices in Ogun and Osun states in the early hours of Thursday.The inter-agency committee includes the National Security Adviser , Major-General Babagana Monguno ; the Inspector General of Police , Usman Alkali Baba; Director General of the Department of State Services , Yusuf Bichi; and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency , Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.Yakubu confirmed that cases of arson at the INEC offices in Ogun and Osun which he said led to the loss of election boxes and uncollected Permanent Voter Cards . According to him, the Commission will reproduce the affected PVCs from their data.While expressing strong concerns over political attacks, he urged the committee to take decisive action to nip such occurrences in the bud.
