By ADEREMI BAMGBOSE

Security has been beefed up at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Okitipupa, Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State ahead Saturday?s governorship election.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INEC has also begun the deployment of both regular and adhoc staff to their respective Registration Area Center (RAC) for the election.

The NAN correspondent, who visited the INEC office in Okitipupa on Friday, said that officers of the Nigeria Police and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were stationed in and outside the office to maintain decorum.

NAN also reports that vehicles transporting sensitive materials and INEC staff to their various RAC?s were being thoroughly screened.

Sensitive materials like ballot papers, ballot boxes, Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines had also arrived the INEC office in Okitipupa ready for movement to racks.

Mr Adedayo Fakorede, an INEC senior official, told NAN that all the sensitive materials arrived Okitipupa late Thursday night.

He said that the process of posting sensitive materials with INEC?s Supervisory Polling Officers (SPO?s), Assistant Polling Officers (APO) and others to their various RAC?s had begun.

?As you can see that we have started the posting of SPO?s, APO?s, with sensitive materials to their various RAC?s, other adhoc staff will be posted later today too.

?This is to guide against any form of lateness by INEC staff to their poling units, so that the election can begin at the appropriate time,? Fakorede said. (NAN)