The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has printed a booklet containing data on party agents for Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship election.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun mentioned this when he unveiled the booklet in Abuja on Tuesday.
Mr Olumekun mentioned that the publication was a part of INEC preparations for Saturday’s election.
“The data booklet comprises infographic abstract of registered voters and Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) collected by Local Government Areas (LGAs) in addition to the distribution of registered voters by gender, age group, occupation and incapacity.
“The publication additionally contains the record of candidates and detailed data on the 2 polling items in Bayelsa and 38 in Imo with out registered voters.
“The Commission has repeatedly mentioned that elections is not going to maintain in these polling items. No supplies have been produced for these areas and no officers can be deployed to them,’’ Mr Olumekun mentioned.
On the record of polling and collation agents for the election, Mr Olumekun mentioned that some political events don’t have agents in some states, despite sponsoring candidates for the election.
Sixteen political events fielded candidates for the election in Bayelsa and 18 in Imo and Kogi.
The election can be held in 10,470 polling items (excluding the 40 polling items with out registered voters).
Mr Olumekun mentioned that every political party was anticipated to appoint polling agents for all of the polling items in addition to 649 Ward, 56 LGA and three state collation centres.
“However, on the shut of the deadline for importing the record of agents to the INEC devoted portal by political events, 34,704 agents had been uploaded for Bayelsa.
“Also 65,274 for Imo State and 37,995 for Kogi, making a complete of 137,973 polling and collation agents for the three states.
“However, the detailed breakdown exhibits that not all of the events nominated agents for the polling and collation centres throughout the states.
“Indeed, some political events don’t have any polling unit or collation agents in some States regardless of having candidates within the election,’’ he mentioned.
Mr Olumekun mentioned that the knowledge booklet in addition to the great abstract of the agents and their distribution by polling items as properly the ward, LGA and state collation centres had been uploaded to INEC web site.
He added that the publications had additionally been uploaded on INEC social media platforms for public data.
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