Confab: Delegates Get INEC Ballot Boxes For Voting

Delegates to the ongoing National Conference in Abuja
are waiting to vote on the report of the Committee on
Devolution of Power.

Consequently, the leadership of the conference has placed two ballot
boxes borrowed from the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, strategically before the delegates for
the exercise on Tuesday.

Before proceeding on a short break, Chairman of the
conference, Justice Idris Kutigi (rtd), told the delegates
not to be intimated by the ballot boxes.

He said the confab secretariat was getting ready for "any
eventuality, but we hope we will reach consensus on
everything".

The use of ballot in the voting process comes on the
heels of opposition by northern delegates to the use of
voice vote in arriving at consensus on recommendations
by the various conference committees.