The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denied moving voters to different polling units during the just concluded FCT Area Council election.
DAILY POST reports that INEC, last Saturday conducted elections for chairmanship and councillorship positions in the nation’s capital city.
In a statement on Saturday, the INEC chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan, admitted that the commission found that some voters faced difficulties locating their polling units during the FCT elections.
Amupitan stated that there were claims in some quarters that the commission migrated voters to different polling units shortly before the FCT elections.
Denying the claims, Amupitan insisted that the electoral body did not migrate voters to different polling units in 2026, adding that creation of additional polling units was done in 2022.
The INEC boss further noted that after the commission created additional polling units in 2022, voters migrated to the new polling units from congested locations.
“The commission notes that no new voter migration was carried out in 2026. The split polling units referenced in recent discussions were created in February 2022 and not in 2026,” the statement reads.
