INEC recruits 81 physically challenged persons as ad hoc staff for Kogi governorship election



Eighty-one physically challenged persons were among ad hoc staff recruited by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the November sixteen governorship election in Kogi State.

Director, Voter Education and Publicity, INEC office, Lokoja, Alhaji Ahmed Biambo, disclosed this on Wednesday on the sideline of a one- day sensitisation forum organised by the commission for persons living with disabilities.

He said the persons were recruited to work as Presiding Officers and Assistant Presiding Officers.

Alhaji Biambo said that the recruited ad hoc staff will be deployed to polling units across the 21 local government areas of the state.

He said that the state Resident Electoral Commissioner had ordered that they be posted to non-volatile areas, saying that they will be trained on the use of braille ballot guide among others.

On his part, the Chairman of the state Chapter of the Joint National Association of Persons Living with Disabilities, Solomon Yahaya, thanked INEC for the inclusion of physically challenged people in the electoral process, saying that it has given them a sense of belonging.

He charged members of the association to come out on election day to vote for a candidate of their choice and advised those recruited as ad hoc staff to give a good account of themselves.

The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor James Apam, while declaring the forum open, said that the commission was determined to ensure that all persons living with disabilities exercise their franchise on election day.

Professor Apam said that persons with disabilities will be given access to polling unit unhindered, saying that they will also be accorded priority to vote first before others.

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