Tag: SIECOM

Gombe Council Polls: Police assure of security for Saturday’s exercise

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
IGP Egbetokun

The police command in Gombe State, has assured of adequate security, ahead of Saturday’s local government councils poll. Mr Hayatu Usman, the State Commissioner of Police, stated this in an interview in Gombe on Friday. He said that adequate personnel had been made deployed to all the 11 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state to ensure that the election was hitch-free. He urged residents to participate massively in the election as they had nothing to worry about, as policemen had been deployed to give them the needed security cover.…

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Council Polls: We postponed exercise in Kaduna due to old batteries – Dikko

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Local Government Elections in Kaduna State has been postponed twice because the batteries that power the electronic voting machines EVMs are old and needed to be replaced.The chairperson of the State Independent Electoral Commission SIECOM, Saratu Dikko Audu made this assertion in Kaduna at the maiden edition of a seminar organized by the state media corporation KSMS with the theme; Local Government Reforms, Election and Service Delivery in Kaduna State.She said the EVMs are about four years old and the batteries needed to be changed hence the delay and…

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