{"id":2717,"date":"2022-06-09T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2022-06-09T09:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:02:45","slug":"situation-room-holds-dialogue-session-with-inec-ahead-of-ekiti-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/situation-room-holds-dialogue-session-with-inec-ahead-of-ekiti-governorship-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation Room Holds Dialogue Session with INEC ahead of Ekiti Governorship Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, on Saturday, June 4, held a Dialogue Session with the Ekiti State Independent National Electoral Commission Resident Electoral Commissioner (INEC REC), Dr. Tella Adeniran Rahmon, with support from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), to discuss INEC\u2019s preparedness for the Ekiti State Governorship Election scheduled for Saturday, 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Situation Room Convener, Ene Obi, in her opening\nremarks highlighted the importance of discussing INEC\u2019s preparations with\nrespect to skilled manpower, training, efficiency and deployment, noting that\nthe Ekiti State election will be the second State election where the&nbsp;Bimodal Voter\u2019s Accreditation System (BVAS) will be deployed. She also emphasised that\nEkiti State has had a sturdy history of election violence made prominent since\nthe 2009 supplementary election in the State, where several voters were\nattacked, and an INEC LGA office burnt down by political thugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Tella Adeniran\nRahmon, gave an update of INEC\u2019s preparations stating that &nbsp;the number of\nPolling Units in Ekiti State were increased from 2,194 to 2,455, with the number\nof registered voters at 988,923 and the number of PVCs collected (as at 27<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;May) at 734,746. He also stated that\n3,346 BVAS machines will be deployed for the election, with additional machines\nto serve as back up. He added that ad hoc staff and National Youth Service Corp members have\nundergone five weeks training on the use of election materials and conduct of election, and that women, youth\ngroups, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and other vulnerable groups have been\neducated on the electoral process with the collaboration of civil society\norganisations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, on Saturday, June 4, held a Dialogue Session with the Ekiti State Independent National Electoral Commission Resident Electoral Commissioner (INEC REC), Dr. Tella Adeniran Rahmon, with support from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), to discuss INEC\u2019s preparedness for the Ekiti State Governorship Election scheduled for Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}