Osun Guber: INEC chairman orders priority treatment for elderly voters

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, has directed committee officials to springiness precedence attraction to aged voters during the August 15, 2026 governorship predetermination successful Osun State.

Amupitan gave this directive connected Saturday portion inspecting the mock accreditation workout crossed Osun State arsenic portion of preparations for the election.

The INEC president commended the inspection astatine Polling Unit 1, Ward 1, Post Office, St. Peter’s Primary School, Ibokun, successful Obokun Local Government Area, wherever helium monitored the cognition of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, and interacted with voters and predetermination officials.

He aboriginal visited polling units Olorunsogo, Egbedore Local Government Area, Ibokun successful Obokun Local Government Area and Ogo-Oluwa successful Osogbo Local Government Area to measure the show of the BVAS devices during the mock accreditation exercise.

At Olorunsogo Polling Unit 4, immoderate voters reported a impermanent malfunction of the BVAS device, which bri...