The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday said that any individual who participates in ballot box snatching amid the rescheduled general election will face the law.
He also clarified that, contrary to allegations that its National Commissioner, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu, was arrested and detained by the Department of State Services, none of its personnel has been apprehended by any law enforcement agent.
Yakubu made these elucidations amid press conference at the Abuja International Conference Center, scene of the 2019 general elections collation centre, where he expressed that “95 per cent of the Smart Card Readers have been reconfigured” in preparation for the presidential and National Assembly elections rescheduled for this Saturday.
He said, “No National Commissioner was arrested by security agencies. There is none whose residence was ransacked and the National Commissioner in question is in his office as we speak here.”
At the point when requested to react to President Buhari’s explanation that ballot box snatchers would do it at their very own cost, the INEC director said that violators of discretionary law, including ballot box snatchers, would “be punished within the confines of the law.”