TODAY
February 27, 2021
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it has concluded arrangements to conduct a capacity building workshop for its Voter Education and Publicity staff at its headquarters and across the country.
In a statement it issued in Abuja, the Commission explained that the workshop which is a Train-The-Trainers programme, is segmented into two due to the COVID-19 pandemic, stressing that:
‘The first segment will comprise Heads of Voter Education (HODs VEP) in the Southern States and headquarters schedule to take place from March 1 to 3 at the Royal Bird Hotel, Alagbaka Quarters, GRA, Akure, Ondo State
‘The second segment comprising Heads of Voter Education (HODs VEP) in the Northern States and Headquarters staff will take place at Lokoja from March 11-13, 2021 at a venue yet to be determined.
Nseobong Okon-Ekong and Chuks Okocha write that the resolve by the Independent National Electoral Commission to create and expand existing Polling Units across the country ahead of the 2023 national elections has been received with suspicion in some quarters, while the commission advances compelling reasons for the exercise
The ongoing effort by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to get the understanding of all stakeholders in order to have a smooth increase in the number of Polling Units in the country is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges facing Professor Mahmood Yakubu as Chairman of the electoral body. This may yet become a significant milestone when he succeeds in what he has set out to accomplish. As he has already set a record by getting an unprecedented second tenure, the INEC Chairman has a good opportunity to carry out many of the reforms that have been suggested across board to give the nation a better chance to get electoral processes that are d
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said the population of registered voter in the country might increase to 100 million by 2023. Yakubu, who made the disclosure during the first quarterly consultative meeting with the media in Abuja, yesterday, lamented that the number of polling units had remain […]
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
Worried by the constant low voter turnout during elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that it has resolved to work towards increasing as well as expanding the clustered polling units.
The commission also said that it had received requests from over 5,000 stakeholders in 26 states for increase and expanding of polling units in their localities. The commission said that the last increase polling units was done 25 years ago in 1996 under the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON).
Addressing leaders of political parties in Abuja yesterday, the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said that after critically appraising the situation of low voter turnout in addition to other factors highlighted by political parties and other stakeholders, “the Commission is of the firm belief that expanding voter access to polling units in Nigeria is crucial to voter turnout in elections.”