How INEC plans to update polling units for 100m voters in 2023
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last month said it intends to update the 119,973 Polling Units (PUs) and over 57,000 voting Points (VPs) Nigeria has been stuck with for 25 years. The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Festus Okoye, said this in Abuja at the end of the management meeting of the commission. The decision is to reflect the realities of population growth and the establishment of new settlements in the country. In August 2014, INEC proposed the creation of 30, 027 more polling units, with the northern region ge...