Guber Poll: Osun Assembly raises alarm over INEC redeployments

The Osun State House of Assembly has raised concerns implicit caller administrative changes wrong the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, informing that the developments could impact the integrity of forthcoming elections successful the state.

Addressing journalists astatine a property league successful Osogbo connected Thursday, Speaker of the Assembly, Adewale Egbedun, connected behalf of lawmakers, expressed reservations implicit the redeployment of Dr. Mutiu Agboke, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, successful Osun, noting that the determination appeared abrupt and without wide justification.

The Assembly disclosed that it had besides received reports suggesting that further redeployments of cardinal electoral unit were being considered, with those to beryllium affected including officials specified arsenic administrative secretaries, electoral officers, adjunct electoral officers and ICT unit crossed the state.

According to the lawmakers, “the signifier of these movements had generated apprehension astir imaginable interference successful the electoral process”.

“It has travel to our announcement that determination is simply a deliberate signifier of actions susceptible of influencing the behaviour of elections successful Osun State.”

The legislators noted that akin changes had not been observed successful Ekiti State, which precedes Osun successful the electoral timetable, raising questions abou...