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INEC intensifies consultation on new polling units

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has intensified consultations with stakeholders on the creation of new Polling Units (Pus), across the country. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, who held a meeting with the media in Abuja, yesterday, said that existing 119, 973 PUs, created 25 years ago had become grossly inadequate, leading to crisis situations during elections. He said, “Nigeria has a critical problem of voter access to Polling Units. The country currently has 119,973 Polling Units established a quarter of a Century ago in 1996 by the defunct National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON). At that time, the voter population was projected at 50 million. “The voters’ register increased to 84,004,084 by 2019. We envisage that by the next General Election in 2...

Cross River by-election: INEC assures transparent, violence free election using technology

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it wil deploy relevant technology to ensure transparent, violence-free and fair election in Saturday’s Cross River North Senatorial and House of Assembly by-elections. Mr Festus Okoye, INECs Commissioner for Information and Voter Education Committee said this on Wednesday in Calabar while speaking on the commission’s preparedness for the polls. He said the successes recorded in Edo and Ondo elections were testimonies to the fact that the commission was improving by every election through the use of modern technology. “We want to surpass our successes in Edo and Ondo. “We are going to conduct a transparent, violence-free and credible election in Cross River North come Saturday. “We are ready for the elections, the Card Readers have b...

#EndSARS: We suffered extensive damages – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it suffered extensive damages, vandali­sation of offices and facilities across the states during the destruction that trailed the EndSARS protests. The commission said the damages were also felt in ar­eas where bye-elections has been scheduled. INEC National Commis­sioner and Chairman Infor­mation and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who made the disclosure in a statement, said the commis­sion as a result may have to consult stakeholders before agreeing on specific date for the bye-elections. Recall that the commis­sion had at its meeting with Resident Electoral Commis­sioners (RECs) suspended the bye-elections indefinitely because of the security situa­tion in the country at the time, promising to review same ...