INEC Wasted N200 Billion Ballot Papers On Saturday’s Election – Itodo

An estimate of about Two Hundred Million Naira has been wasted on voters ballot papers in the presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday February 25.

VerseNews Nigeria reports that the Executive Director of Foremost election observer, Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo in an interview on Wednesday with Channels Television said many Nigerians were not able to cast their votes and the money wasted on printing ballot papers is enough to provide medical assistance to health centres.

This Online Newspaper learnt that according to the Independent National Electorate Commission (INEC) the total number of registered voters is 93,469,008, accredited voters is 25,286,616, total valid votes 24,025,940, total votes cast 24,965,218 and total rejected votes 939,278.

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Itodo in his analysis argued that INEC produced the number of ballot papers for the registered voters and about N280,400,024 was spent to print the individual sheets of paper. but only N72 million ballot papers where issued to accredited votes while about 200 million ballot papers.

Itodo said; “If 72 million ballot papers were issued to these accredited voters. We have about 200 million sheet of papers that have gone to waste. And if you check how much was expended per voter in this election, it was somewhere around six to eight dollars per voter.

“If you multiply that you discover that we have wasted billions of naira because people didn’t show up to cast their votes. And so that is money that could have been used to provide drugs to our primary healthcare centres.”