The resident electoral commissioner in Plateau State, Habu Zarma, said at the time elections should have commenced in Plateau, only 45,000 ballot papers were received out of the over 2.4 million ballot papers expected for the senate in the state.
He confirmed that there was shortage in the supply of voting materials, especially ballot papers which made it impossible to conduct the elections that day.
He said for the senatorial elections, Plateau North senatorial zone with a voter population of 1,219,914, received only 45,000 ballot papers while Plateau central, did not receive a single out of the 632,665 expected.
Zarma said Plateau South senatorial zone also did get a single not ballot paper for the senatorial elections out of the 631,262 expected.
The REC said for the House of Representatives election, three out of the eight constituencies including Bassa/Jos North received only 113,553 while Jos East/ Jos South constituency got 16,511 and Pankshin/ Kanke/ Kanam constituency got only 66,472 making a total of 196, 536 ballot papers deficit for the House of Reps elections.
Forms not supplied as at the time of briefing the press include form EC 8C (1) in the 17 LG collation centres, forms EC 8E (1) in constituency collation centres and EC 8E (1) declaration forms in 8 centres.
.
Original post:
Only 45,000 senate ballot papers received for Plateau- REC