ASUU strike will have serious impact on preparations for 2019 elections, says INEC

ASUU strike will have serious impact on preparations for 2019 elections, says INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday raised fresh fears that the ongoing face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities could be a serious threat to the 2019 general elections.

The commission also stressed that it would deploy over one million ad-hoc staff made up of lecturers in federal tertiary institutions, including ASUU, members of the National Youth Service Corps and students of federal tertiary institutions.

The categories of ad-hoc staff to be used during next year’s election would serve as Returning Officers, Collation Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers, and Assistant Presiding Officers.
A National Commissioner for INEC and chairman of its Information and other Education Committee, Festus Okoye, raised these issues during the opening ceremony of a one-day seminar on media gender-sensitive reporting.

Source: ASUU strike will have serious impact on preparations for 2019 elections, says INEC

 - NigerianEye

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