The Katsina State Independent National Electoral Commission will start the circulation of touchy materials to the 34 local government territories in the state on Wednesday (today) for Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly polls.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Jibrin Zarewa, disclosed this in Katsina that by the morning of February 23, each polling centers would have materials prepared to begin casting a ballot.
Katsina, which is President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state, has 4,902 Polling Units and 1,750 Voting Points, bringing the aggregate of Voting Centers to 6,652.
Zarewa clarified that the system received was to move the constituent materials from the vaults of the Central Bank of Nigeria in Katsina on Wednesday (today) to the local government zones.
He expressed that Thursday morning (tomorrow), the materials would be isolated by the quantity of wards in the state, while on Friday morning, and electoral officers in the LGAs would claim the materials for distribution to the wards and voting centers very early on Saturday morning (February 23).
He stated, “This Wednesday (today), we will move them from CBN to local government areas.
“On Thursday, which is tomorrow, we will separate them ward-by-ward, while in the morning on Friday, we will give them to the electoral officers in the local governments and the presiding officers in that order.
“At the wards, refresher training will be conducted for the ad hoc staff, while the materials will be moved to the polling units very early on Saturday morning; that is February 23.”
On how the state INEC reacted to the deferment of the decisions from February 16 to February 23, Zarewa revealed that the workplace basically recovered every one of the things effectively dispersed and gave them over to the CBN in Katsina.
He added, “We were not affected in terms of receiving materials for the elections or retrieving them when the exercise was shifted by one week.
“We were able to get all materials intact. Last week, all our materials were packed and taken back to the CBN.
“We took them back item-by-item, and not a pin was missing”.