Sustainable Initiative for Nurturing Growth (SING), an election observer group, says it will train and deploy its personnel to monitor the November 16, 2019, governorship election in Bayelsa state.
Mohammed Basah, spokesman of SING, made this known in a statement.
He said the observers would be trained by SING before they would be deployed to selected polling units across the eight local government areas of the state.
Basah said the training will take place in Yenegoa, the state capital, between November 13 and November 14, 2019.
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He added that part of the objective of SING is to promote electoral integrity and boost confidence of citizens in the electoral process.
“The information that SING would be providing to citizens and stakeholders would include time of arrival and set up by polling officials among others. It also promised that the commencement of accreditation and voting, functionality of the smart card reader and deployment of security officials, would also be monitored,” the statement read.
“We will also be observing the process of voting, sorting and counting while also verifying the accuracy of the official elections results released by the electoral commission.”
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