The Commission said it probably overrated members of the National Youth Service Corps while preparing for the exercise.
INEC Commissioner in charge of Information, Mr. Solomon Soyebi, narrated the commission’s frustrations when he appeared on “Focus Nigeria,” a political program of the Africa Independent Television.
He observed that INEC had high expectations of the corps members because of the generally held notion that being “modern graduates,” they would be conversant with the basic application of laptop computers.
The INEC Commissioner expressed the Commission’s displeasure about hitches being experienced in the exercise.
He, however, explained that everything was being done to address identified lapses and rectify the short comings within the shortest time possible.
He said, “We assumed that these corps members should know how to operate a simple machine like the DDC machine in addition to the training that they had but unfortunately, they disappointed us. We discovered (that) they could not and many of them struggled with it unsuccessfully.
“These are graduates. And we never expected that any of them won’t be able to handle a computer, but the reality was such that a majority of them couldn’t and we had to start shuffling them.”
He however admitted that the Commission had challenges paying the N10,000 allowance which it was to pay corps members participating in the exercise.
Soyebi attributed this to administrative procedure associated with accessing funds from the banks.
The Commissioner said this also had an effect on the productivity of the corps members who might have succumbed to psychological pressure.
He however assured that everything humanly possible was being done to get the process back on track, adding that, in a few days, things would stabilise.
Soyebi assured the corps members that the Commission would fast track the process of paying the first installment of their allowances, adding that issues of logistics was also being sorted out.
Speaking in the same vein, the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega at a different event appealed to Nigerians to exercise patience with the Commission.
He expressed confidence that the challenges currently being experienced would soon become a thing of the past.
Jega urged prospective voters to go to the units nearest to them because there could be a restriction on human and vehicular movement on election day.
He enjoined Nigerians to take advantage of the time allotted for the exercise to avoid last minute rush.
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