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The Independent National Electoral Commission<\/a> (INEC) on Tuesday said it was ready for the smooth conduct of Saturday\u2019s governorship election in Kogi and Bayelsa.<\/p>\n

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this at a stakeholder meeting in Lokoja. Yakubu said that 12 out of the 14-point steps for the smooth conduct of the election had been achieved.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly four days to the election, how prepared is INEC? \u201cThe short answer is that we are ready. So far, the commission has successfully implemented 12 out of the 14-point plan for the election as required by law. We have just two more activities outstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it was ready for the smooth conduct of Saturday\u2019s governorship election in Kogi and Bayelsa. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this at a stakeholder meeting in Lokoja. Yakubu said that 12 out of the 14-point steps for the smooth conduct of the election had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[951,251,396],"class_list":["post-17900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bayelsa-state","tag-inec","tag-kogi"],"yoast_head":"\nINEC ready for Kogi, Bayelsa poll says Chairman - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it was ready for the smooth conduct of Saturday\u2019s governorship election in Kogi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC ready for Kogi, Bayelsa poll says Chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it was ready for the smooth conduct of Saturday\u2019s governorship election in Kogi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-12T18:19:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/INEC-3.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"503\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"INEC ready for Kogi, Bayelsa poll says Chairman\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-12T18:19:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman\"},\"wordCount\":108,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/INEC-3.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Bayelsa State\",\"INEC\",\"Kogi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-ready-for-kogi-bayelsa-poll-says-chairman\",\"name\":\"INEC ready for Kogi, Bayelsa poll says Chairman - 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