{"id":1931,"date":"2013-04-10T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/nsc-south-west-zone-1-promises-free-fair-zonal-elections\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:34:04","slug":"nsc-south-west-zone-1-promises-free-fair-zonal-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/nsc-south-west-zone-1-promises-free-fair-zonal-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"NSC South-West Zone 1 promises free, fair zonal elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The headquarters, National Sports Commission (NSC’s) South-West Zone 1, Ibadan, on Wednesday pledged to conduct a free and fair zonal elections into the sports federations.<\/p>\n

Steve Olarinoye, the Coordinator of the zone, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan that all hands were already on deck for a rancour-free polls in the zone.<\/p>\n

“I want to assure the sports stakeholders that the Zone 1 office will deliver a free and fair zonal elections into the sports federations, scheduled for April 19,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

According to Olarinoye, all logistics for the success of the elections are being deployed to the headquarters and also assured of tight security at the event.<\/p>\n

The NSC, in its elections guidelines released on April 9, had said that the zonal elections would hold simultaneously on April 30 at the headquarters of the six geo-political zones of the country.<\/p>\n

The other zonal headquarters are in Benin, Enugu, Kaduna, Jos and Bauchi.<\/p>\n

The commission added that elections for the positions of the president and the vice president of the various sports federations would hold in Abuja on May 14.<\/p>\n

It added that the elected officers would be sworn-in on May 17, after all appeals or petitions arising from the elections would have been decided.<\/p>\n

NAN reports that the elections would exclude the privately run sports, which have been concessioned to sponsors.<\/p>\n

It would be recalled that the NSC recently dissolved the boards of the various National Sports Federations.<\/p>\n

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