Yiaga Africa Raises Concern Over Coalition of FCT Council Polls

Yiaga Africa has released its preliminary report on the FCT area council polls and has expressed reservations about the integrity of the ward coalition, which will begin shortly.

The organisation said it observed some critical lapses in the exercise, like the late arrival of election materials in some polling units, late notification of change of voting units to voters whose voting units had been moved due to an increase in the number of people at a voting unit.

It said every serious voter apathy was observed in most areas monitored, while it noticed the non-availability of critical voting materials in some polling stations.

Yiaga Africa also noticed that the deployment of security agencies seriously hampered the movement of election observers.

The civil society organisation said, although its observations are a preliminary report, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has to do more to engage the people by giving them adequate information, and also improve its logistics value chain, which is very flawed.