The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has reiterated the resolve of the electoral commission to conduct more credible elections in 2015, stressing that the commission is fully prepared for the election and has put all logistics to ensure the successes of the elections in place.
Speaking in a brief interview with LEADERSHIP during the recent Nigeria-US Bi-National Meetings in Washington DC, Attahiru Jega said that the federal government has given the INEC enough free hand which he said would enable the electoral agency conduct more perfect, credible and successful elections in the country.
Noting that conducting free, fair, peaceful and credible elections in Nigeria is a very difficult assignment, the INEC Chairman added that the successes expected during the 2015 elections require serious commitments of the government at all levels and the electorates.
Professor Jega continued that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in collaboration with all the security agencies in Nigeria, is ready to curb the activities of those that are behind election malpractices in the country.
On the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States, Jega said that his commission would do everything to ensure that every vote counts so as to avoid post-elections violence.