FCT Council Poll: INEC Assures Of Level Playing Field To Contestants

The Independent National Electoral Commission has assured the candidates participating in the forthcoming election in FCT that it will provide level playing field for all.

This is also as it has said it would deploy 12,000 ad hoc personnel for the February 12, 2022 area council election.

The INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Yahaya Bello, gave the assurance on Wednesday in Abuja.

Bello, represented by the Administrative Secretary of INEC in the FCT, Waziri Zannah, stated this during a town hall meeting with women groups and gender-focused civil society organisations in Abuja organised by INEC in collaboration with European Center for Electoral Support

While expressing the commission’s readiness to conduct a free and fair poll in the FCT, he charged women groups to sensitise and mobilise other women and youth to come out during the election, and vote for their preferred candidates.

Bello said, “It’s high time women to out en-mass and participate in the electoral process. The commission provides a level playing ground for both women and men and eligible voters.

INEC will count everyone’s vote and will also be transparent in all we do concerning the election.