 Chairman of the re-independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu has met with the Acting Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSE, Mrs. Krissie-Uba, towards a successful conduct of the general elections. The meeting is to officially smooth in out all arrangements for the participation of core members as ad hoc staff in the first coming general elections as NYSE members from the multitude of ad hoc staff for the electoral empire. In his opening remarks, the INEC Chairman thanked the NYSE for their support over the years, saying it is impossible to conduct elections in Nigeria without the support of the core members. The National Youth Corps members are our most reliable, most readily available, most educated, most patriotic, the largest number of election duty staff in the country, so we simply can't conduct elections without the support of the core members. And this is very important, particularly now that we are introducing increasingly more and more technology in the conduct of the elections. There is need to look at review of the allowance paid to the core members in view of the prevailing economic reality. Also on our part, we have directed all state coordinators to land with NYSEs and other security agencies to identify crisis-prone areas in the state and forward same to be headquartner.