Breaking: INEC Bans Phones, Cameras, Electronic Devices in polling booths

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Breaking: INEC Bans Phones, Cameras, Electronic Devices in polling booths

In a bizarre bid to ensure a free, fair and successful election in the forthcoming Osun state gubernatorial election, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has warned electorate not to come with any electronic device that is capable of recording sounds and images inside the polling booths.

Disclosing this in Osogbo at the stakeholders’ forum, Yakubu said that the new development would help to reduce vote-buying and selling which politicians have adopted.

Recall that during the Ekiti state election in July, Yakubu  promised Nigerians that the commission would not allow vote-buying and selling in elections.

Observers however are questioning the motive for such move saying it is a strategy that would make rigging easy and not stop vote buying.

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