The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has said that the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and scarcity of fuel during the 2023 general election together with the perennial insecurity nationwide made its logistics management more challenging during the poll.
The INEC chairman disclosed this today at a meeting of the members of the Commission and Civil Society Organisations on the review of the 2023 general election at the Commission’s conference room, in Abuja.
He highlighted some positive areas, especially with the repeal and re-enactment of the Electoral Act 2010 into the Electoral Act 2022 which introduced technology into election management.
But Yakubu regretted that apart from the impact of the cashless policy and fuel scarcity, the deployment of thugs by some political actors also made election day administration difficult in several places