Nigeria, Aug. 14 -- Less than 24 hours before the Osun State governorship election, Yiaga Africa's Watching The Vote (WTV) Working Group on Friday inspected Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices in selected local government areas to evaluate the deployment of election materials and the level of preparedness for Saturday's poll.

Coming a day before Osun voters elect their next governor, the visits offered observers an opportunity to engage with INEC officials, political party agents, and other stakeholders on the readiness of the electoral process.

The exercise focused particularly on the arrival and sorting of sensitive election materials, deployment of ad hoc election officials, security arrangements, party-agent pre...