By Simon Ebegbulem

BENIN—THE Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Edo State, Mr. Mike Igini, has raised alarm over alleged plot by politicians who are making frantic attempts to infiltrate adhoc staff of the Commission such as the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, members with a view to manipulating the elections.

Promising that INEC was set to eliminate rigging in the forthcoming general elections, he admonished politicians to look for popular candidates else they will lose the elections no matter how they try to manipulate the process.

Igini disclosed this weekend, in Benin City, during a meeting with leaders of political parties in the state.

He said: “If you look at the history of INEC, it was initially making use of civil servants at the state level and primary school teachers as obtained in other parts of the world. But because of the level of collusion and connivance, INEC decided to go into partnership with NYSC and other federal agencies.

“What do we find today in the political class? Politicians are now doing everything to infiltrate the NYSC, as you can see fake corpers these days. Because of the shift, we are going to do a refresher course for them again, particularly for the NYSC people. I don’t know what this country is turning into.”