With days to go before Nigerians heads to the polls, the chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mahmood Yakubu gives a briefing. "The voter population of 93,469,008 voters is more than the total number of registered voters in all the other countries in the West Africa region put together," he says in explaining the complexity of the operation. He also gives assurances on safety, "our facilities, staff, voters, observers, the media and citizens will be safe during the election," he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES