2027: INEC lists 407 security flashpoints ahead of elections in Osun

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, successful Osun State has identified 407 information flashpoints and 278 hard terrains up of the 2027 wide elections arsenic portion of measures to guarantee peaceful and credible polls.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Oluwatoyin Babalola, disclosed this connected Wednesday portion briefing members of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee connected Election Security, ICCES, connected the commission’s level of preparedness for the forthcoming elections.

Babalola said ground-truthing exercises were ongoing crossed the 30 section authorities areas of the authorities to place imaginable information challenges and hard locations requiring peculiar operational attention.

She disclosed that the identified flashpoints and hard terrains would usher information readying and due interventions.

Commending information agencies for their contributions to the peaceful behaviour of the 15 August 2026 Osun governorship election, the REC urged them to prolong their cooperation, professionalism and commitment.

She called connected the agencies to “sustain the existing collaboration and fortify their operational concern up of the 2027 General Election.”

Providing an update connected the electoral timetable, Babalola disclosed that INEC had completed 9 of the 14 large activities scheduled for the 2027 general...