Osun guber: Election not worth blood of citizens – INEC boss, Amupitan to politicians

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, has pledged that the Commission volition instrumentality each indispensable measures to avert unit during the Osun governorship predetermination scheduled for August 15, emphasizing that nary beingness should beryllium sacrificed for governmental ambitions.

Amupitan made this connection during a courtesy sojourn to the Ataoja of Osogbo, HRM Oba Jimoh Olanipekun Oyetunji, astatine his palace on Friday.

While addressing the monarch and his chiefs, the INEC Chairman highlighted that ensuring information is simply a superior interest for the Commission.

He said, “We bash not tendency violence. The beingness of each Osun national is excessively invaluable to beryllium mislaid simply for the involvement of an predetermination for the governorship position. Thus, we are profoundly acrophobic arsenic a Commission.

“It is simply a substance of large value to us. We privation to guarantee that nary 1 loses their beingness owed to an predetermination successful Osun.”

He disclosed that INEC has collaborated with the police, the Minister of Defence, the Chief of Defence Staff, and Service Chiefs to warrant a peculiar information deployment to Osun State.

He besides pointed retired the contented of misleading videos being circulated arsenic a strategy to discourage elector participation, urgin...