Date: 2020-03-14

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kwara State, Mr Attahiru Madami, has said six political parties fielded candidates for the Patigi constituency election into the state House of Assembly which holds on Saturday (today).

Madami said the sensitive and non-sensitive materials were deployed for the election in time.

He listed the political parties that fielded candidates for the election as Alliance Action Congress, African Democratic Congress, All Progressives Congress, Allied Peoples Movement, Nigeria National Peoples Party and Peoples Democratic Party.

He said 451 personnel, including ad-hoc staff and staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, would supervise the election which would be conducted in 105 polling units, while 43,695 people who collected their permanent voter card would participate in the election.

Madami also confirmed that the commission would deploy at least three-card reader machines to each polling unit to guide against any challenge.

He, however, urged all the participating political parties and their supporters to conduct themselves peacefully before, during and after the elections. He assured them of a fair and credible election.

The Patigi constituency seat became vacant following the death of Said Rufai, who represented the constituency but died on December 3, 2019. He was a member of the APC.