The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Kogi state says all is set for this weekend's by election to fill the vacant Lokoja/Kogi-Koto, Karfe federal constituency seat in the House of Representatives.
The state INEC said this at a meeting in Lokoja with political parties, security agents and other stakeholders ahead of Saturday’s election.
The issues plaguing recent elections in Nigeria ranging from vote buying, malfunctioning card readers, security and logistics dominated the meeting.
The INEC boss and Commissioner of Police were told to improve on what has been witnessed in recent elections elsewhere in the country
The Deputy Commissioner of Police operations, Monday Kuryas promised adequate security for voters in Saturday's by-election.
The Kogi state resident electoral commissioner, Professor James Apam assured voters of INEC'S preparedness to deliver hitch free polls.
Apam said materials and manpower will be efficiently deployed to the Three Hundred and Ten polling units across the Twenty-One registration areas in the two local government areas of Lokoja/Kogi-Kotor federal constituency.
Nine political parties will slug it out in Saturday's by-election.
They are the Accord Party (AC); African Democratic Congress (ADC); All Progressives Congress (APC); Democractic Alternative (DA); Labour Party (LP); Mega Party Of Nigeria (MPN); National Conscience Party (NCP); People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Social Democractic Party (SDP).
The Lokoja Kogi Kotor federal constituency became vacant after the death of Buba Jubril in march this year.
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