Ondo (Ondo State) – Prof. Layi Olurode, an INEC National Commissioner, has directed that more electoral staff be sent to polling booths with very large turnout of voters.

Olurode gave the directive in Ondo in Ondo State, when he visited Ondo Ward 7, where Gov. Olusegun Mimiko will vote, after he noticed the slow pace of accreditation.

He also directed electoral officers to accredit voters whose names and photographs on their voters cards correspond with the names and photographs on the voters register.

The commissioner said that numbers on the voters cards might not correspond with the numbers on the register, as the register was not perfect.

Olurode also directed the INEC staff members to give preference to the elderly and to people with disability in the accreditation exercise.

Earlier, the INEC ad hoc staff in the polling unit, Mr Ajayi Alaba, had complained that the numbers on  the voters cards did not correspond with the numbers on the register.

He explained that the situation had slowed down accreditation as party agents were disagreeing on the issue.

Meanwhile, a member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr Olotu Fatai, has commended INEC officials for coming to the polling booths with the necessary materials on time.

Fatai, representing the Akoko North Constituency in the house, however, said that many voters could not find their names  on the register, and called on INEC to resolve the problem.

Also speaking, the Deputy Governorship candidate of the ACN, Dr Paul Akintelure, commended the Federal Government for providing adequate security.

He expressed the belief that the security men were up to the task of containing any outbreak of violence during the poll.(NAN)