Speaking during a stakeholders' forum at the Women Development Centre, Awka, Jega said the commission had made adequate preparation to ensure a credible, free and fair election.
However, he appealed to political parties and their candidates to cooperate with the commission to actualise the goal, as INEC would give all the parties and candidates a level playing ground.
He said INEC had corrected the errors in the controversial voters' registers earlier given to political parties, adding that the mistakes were computer errors.
Presenting the corrected copies of the voters' register to political parties, Jega asked them to carefully study them and raise objections where necessary before the election.
"We are transparent and we will continue to be transparent and fair to all the parties. We are human beings and we can make mistakes and correct them.
"We have concluded the training of our staff, we have introduced security features to protect our ballot papers and ballot boxes for every polling unit with a unique code number for each unit so that you can not take a ballot paper from one unit to another," he said.
On multiple registration, the INEC boss said that the commission had already arrested some defaulters and were concluding arrangements to prosecute them and warned voters in the state who had double registration not to go to the polling units on Saturday as security agents had been directed to arrest any offender.
Jega warned that there would be no movement of government officials in the name of monitoring the election, adding that party agents must wear INEC tags to enable them enter and stay at the polling boots assigned to them.
Equally, he advised governorship candidates against going to the polling booths to vote with their armed aides, noting that it had caused violence in the past.
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