The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it was still in talks with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, over storage of election materials. VANGUARD reports.

Festus Okoye, the INEC Commissioner for Information and Voter Education revealed this on Thursday weeks after the chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said sensitive materials would no longer be stored in CBN, in the wake of plans by governor of the apex bank, Godwin Emefiele, to contest the Presidency. Information Guide Nigeria

But speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, yesterday, Okoye said logistics measures taken in Ekiti and Osun governorship elections would not be sustainable for the general election.

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He said: “You cannot use the Ekiti governorship election and Osun governorship election as a measure of what will happen in 2023. jamb result

“This is because, for instance, in the Ekiti governorship election, we had less than a million registered voters. In the Osun governorship election, we were shy of two million registered voters.

“These are stand-alone elections. For the Ekiti election, we utilised the service of the Nigerian Air Force and they flew the materials into Akure airport. We did the same thing with the Osun election, and we moved the materials to our state offices.

“But for the 2023 general election, we are going to have over 95 million ballot papers printed for the presidential election. Over 95 million will be printed for the senatorial election; over 95 million papers will be printed for the House of Representatives election. Then it goes down.

“It’s going to be a huge logistics nightmare. What we intend to do going forward since there are issues with keeping our materials with CBN, we have not had enough opportunity to sit down with the Central Bank to review the entire issue surrounding our moving our material with the Nigerian Air Force.

“We are definitely going to do that. If at the end of the day, we are not satisfied with the arrangement, then we are going to look for a new logistics pathway of how to manage logistics during the 2023 elections. But no decision has been made.

“When you have to move materials to 36 states of the federation and the capital territory, it’s a completely different ball game.”