INEC staffs threatens to boycott poll

KANO, Nigeria, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of adhoc staffs of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have expressed fear of attack by mobs during the elections prompting many to threatening not to participate in the election.

The INEC recruited thousand of Nigerian university graduates on one year mandatory service under the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program as adhoc staffs for conduction the election. The graduates of the south are usually deployed to the north, while those from the North deployed to the south as a way of forging a national integration and cohesion.

Scores of the university graduates members from the south deployed to the north were killed in mob attacked in violence that followed the presidential election last week in many parts of the north.

The Lagos state government on Monday evacuated 84 serving students from northern states of Kano and Jigawa state ahead of the Tuesday's government and state legislative election for the safety of their lives.

Official of the election body in charge of Kano Ahmed Umar Danyaya said there is total arrangement to ensure the safety and security of the serving youth graduates employed as adhoc staffs for the exercise.