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Vanguard News INEC to convert voting points to full fledge Polling Units On 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 e...

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 tha...

INEC announces date for vacant legislative seats in Jigawa, Kaduna INEC added that both polls will hold using existing polling units in the concerned constituencies. ADVERTISEMENT Nigeria’s electoral body, INEC, has announced dates for by-elections into two vacant legislative seats in Jigawa and Kaduna states. The commission in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Festus Okoye, on Friday, declared June 19, 2021, as the date for the conduct of by-elections to fill the vacant seat for Gwaram Federal Constituency of Jigawa State and Sabon Gari Constituency in the Kaduna State House of Assem...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct a bye-election for the Gwaram Federal Constituency of Jigawa State on June 19. INEC Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, disclosed this via a statement issued on Friday. He said the decision to conduct the exercise followed the death of the former holder of the office, Hon. Yuguda Hassan Kila on March 4, in which the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila declared the seat vacant. “Consequently, the Commission has fixed Saturday 19th June 2021 for the conduct of bye-electio...

Translate Home » News » 2023: Polls to hold in 176,996 polling units as INEC creates additional 57,023 2023: Polls to hold in 176,996 polling units as INEC creates additional 57,023 On By Charles Kumolu Twenty five years after the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria, INEC, created Polling Units, PUs, the Commission is poised to create additional 57,023 across the country. The move would increase the number of voting units from 119,973 to 176,996. This is barring any further intrigues by vested interests,  Vanguard  learned. The then National Electoral Commis...