From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has admitted that it is facing multiple challenges of logistics, perennial insecurity across the country and complaints from political parties over insufficient polling units agents in the ongoing presidential and National Assembly election.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who made the disclosure at a press briefing at the National Collation Centre in Abuja, lamented that no fewer than eight Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) have been lost to political thugs in Delta and Katsina States.
Explaining the insecurity challenges, he said that thugs attacked electoral officials in some areas like Safana, Katsina, Shiroro in Niger state, Osimiri in Delta State, resulting in the lost of a total number of eight BVAS machines.
He however blamed the political parties over the lapses noticed in the shortage of polling units agents, insisting that the factors have contributed in the delay in commencement of voting in some areas.