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The National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) badured Nigerians and the international community that it had made the necessary arrangements for the elections to begin before 8:00 am on Saturday.
Mahmood Yakubu, president of INEC, gave badurances on Friday in Abuja during a press conference on the commission's preparations for the presidential and national elections.
Yakubu said the commission had completed the deployment of sensitive and non-sensitive materials in the country's 774 local government areas.
"We recruited 825,543 ad hoc staff, ranging from badembly presidents to rank managers and returning officers. We mobilized 80,000 commercial vehicles and approximately 996 boats for the deployment of personnel and equipment.
"The equipment includes 707,892 ballot boxes and polling stations, and we mobilize them at various locations by land and sea.
"We accredited 120 groups of national observers and 36 international groups of observers, deploying a cumulative number of 73,000 observers.
"We ended the movement of personnel and equipment to the country's 774 local RACs and 8,809 RACs.
"All arrangements are now in place to facilitate the opening of the polls on Saturday at 8 am," he said.
He added that measures were also in place to combat the purchase of votes and other electoral irregularities.
He said the national situation room would open at 6 pm on Friday, while the national badembly center would also be open at 6 pm Sunday, both located at the Abuja International Conference Center (ICC).
The president advised eligible voters to visit the gotomypu.ng site to locate their polling stations, stating that in the past ten days, about 190,000 people had used the various social media platforms of the commission to geolocate their polling stations.
He added that elections would be held under a system of simultaneous accreditation and voting and that only registered voters with a permanent voter card would be allowed to vote.
"As we go to the polls tomorrow, I urge voters to be peaceful and in order before, during and after the elections.
"The police working with other security agencies badured us of adequate security for voters, election officials, observers and the media.
"May I also appeal to all those who are not observers or who are obliged to respect the usual restrictions of movement are respected," said the president.
Yakubu also urged members of the public to refrain from any publication of election results, saying that only the CENI was empowered by law to declare the results.
"The commission will work diligently to ensure that the compilation and reporting of results is done quickly at the different levels," he added.
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