was re-appointed as INEC boss, Jega stressed that he would not accept it because he wanted to do something else with his life.
The INEC boss further stated that the commission was already in partnership with the police and the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, to prosecute electoral offenders.
He noted that one offender had already been prosecuted in Adamawa state and was sentenced to six months imprisonment for being in illegal possession of Permanent Voters Card.
He, however called on anyone that has evidence of electoral offences to bring such to the commission, with a promise that the commission would investigate the claim.
On the planned supplementary elections in Abia state, Jega said that the elections would hold only in the wards where election was cancelled and not in the entire three Local Government Areas.
Jega further revealed that about 20,000 permanent voters card were not produced before the election was conducted because the producer was arrested by the police over the allegation that he gave the password to a political party.
The INEC boss attributed the success achieved in the elections to the use of technology adding that subsequent elections should be better if the present success was sustained.
“Evidently, some people did not want us to use the card reader machine. That was why we allowed manual election in some few places where the card reader did not function well during the presidential election.
“Some people had already said that we deliberately deployed card reader machines to some zones where they would not work and to prove them wrong, we instructed that manual voting should take place in such places. But some people want to take advantage of that .
“But during governorship elections, we ensured that all the card reader machines worked. We have earlier sent warning to all the RECs that they will be held responsible for any card reader machines that did not work properly”, he stated.
Earlier, the convener of the Situation Room and Executive Director of Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC:, Clement Nwankwo had on behalf of the civil societies congratulated Jega and INEC over the success of the elections.He however noted that Situation Room had raised concern over Rivers, Abia and Akwa – Ibom elections.He also said that there were complaints about some of the State Resident Electoral Commissioners over their relationship with politicians in their various states.
