Security beefed up at INEC Lagos office

There is a beef up of security at the Lagos State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
As part of the security measures, Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) were positioned at the entrance of the Commission’s office.

Soldiers and mobile police personnel were seen within the vicinity to provide protection for electoral officers and materials.
Also, staff of the commission were seen busy sorting and packaging non-sensitive electoral materials for distribution to different parts of the state. INEC vehicles were also seen loading and moving materials to the Commission’s local government offices across the state.
Meanwhile, Femi Akinbiyi, the state’s Head of Public Affairs, said the Commission had distributed 3.8million Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) to registered voters in the state.

Akinbiyi said the figure represented 69 per cent of the total registered voters. “We have distributed 3, 847, 491 PVCs in Lagos as at the end of last week. This represents 69 per cent of the total registered voters in the state,’’ he said.

According to him, many registered voters failed to come for their cards in spite of the Commission’s  best efforts.

On cards yet to be collected, the spokesman said the state was waiting for directive on the next step of action from the headquarters in Abuja.