INEC creates 1,374 new polling units in Akwa Ibom – Official
The state now has a total of 4,354 polling units, according to INEC.
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has created 1,374 new polling units in Akwa Ibom State, bringing the total polling units in the state to 4,354.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Mike Igini, announced this on Saturday in Uyo at a “stakeholders briefing” on the expansion of voters access and establishment of new polling units.
Mr Igini said the exercise was entirely data driven and status neutral, stressing that despite the increased number of registered voters the access to polling units has remained constant in the last 25 years. This, he said, informed the creation of new polling units.
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INEC to convert voting points to full fledge Polling Units
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By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has announced plans to convert voting points into full fledge Polling Units across the country.
This was stated by Barr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner during a stakeholders meeting on expanding voter access to polling units, in Kano on Saturday.
“In 1996, across Nigeria, there were 119,973 polling units when there was 50 million registered voters. Now that there are 87 million registered voters in the country, there is need to exp and and establish new polling units across the country.
“The Commission has in the last three electoral cycles made use of Voting Points and Voting Points Settlements as interim solutions for declaring voter access to Polling Units. These are well known by the stakeholders and accepted by voters. Consequently converting them to full fledged Polling Units is a cost effective and timely
He said the decision was to help decongest PUs and to give voters a healthy environment to exercise their civic responsibilities during elections.
Prof Shehu said, “There are over five million registered voters in Kano State, with 8,074 PUs and 3,148 VPs.
“As part of our reforms, INEC came up with the mandate of expanding voter access to PUs, and the committee has already recommended converting all these VPs to stand-alone PUs.
“If approved, Kano will now have a total of 11,222 PUs.
“INEC has created Voting Points, Baby Polling Units and Voting Polling Settlements in PUs with more than 500 voters, but that has still not solved the hardships voters face on election days,” he said.
INEC converts 1,015 voting points to polling units in Kwara
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has converted 1,015 voting points to polling units in Kwara.
Malam Garba Attahiru-Madami, the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), disclosed this in Ilorin on Saturday during a stakeholders’ meeting on “Expansion of voter access to polling units in Kwara”.
He added that access to polling units was very essential to increase numbers of voters during elections.
Attahiru-Madami lamented that Nigeria has never recorded over 35 per cent of voters during elections, whereas Ghana has recorded over 50 per cent of voters.
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The Ondo State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday said it had created more polling units across the 18 local government areas of the state ahead of the 2023 general election.
The commission specifically said it had created additional 924 polling units which had increased the polling units in the states to 3,933.
The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Rufus Akeju, said this at a stakeholder meeting for the implementation of the expansion of voter access to polling units in Nigeria.
The REC explained that the commission arrived at the figure by converting existing voting points that meet the minimum threshold of 750 or a maximum of 1,000 voters per polling unit.