In readiness for the three off-cycle Governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States, the Commission is making available, Information Booklet and list of polling and collation agents for the forthcoming election.
The publication contains infographic summary of registered voters and Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) collected by Local Government Areas (LGAs) and the distribution of registered voters by gender, age group, occupation and disability.
Detailed information
In a press statement signed by the INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, the publication also includes list of candidates and detailed information on the two polling units in Bayelsa and 38 in Imo State without registered voters.
“The Commission has repeatedly said that elections will not hold in these polling units. No materials have been produced for these locations and no officials will be deployed to them.
List of Polling and Collation Agents includes sixteen political parties sponsoring candidates for the election in Bayelsa State and 18 in both Imo and Kogi States.
“The elections will be held in 10,470 polling units (excluding the 40 polling units without registered voters).
Each political party is expected to nominate polling agents for all the polling units as well as 649 Ward, 56 LGA and three State collation centres.
At the close of the deadline for uploading the list of agents to the INEC dedicated portal by political parties, 34,704 agents were uploaded for Bayelsa State, 65,274 for Imo State and 37,995 for Kogi State, making a total of 137,973 polling and collation agents for the three States.
Nominated Agents
The detailed breakdown indicated that not all the parties nominated agents for the polling and collation centres across the States, as some political parties have no polling unit or collation agents in some States despite having candidates in the election.
The information booklet and the comprehensive summary of the agents and their distribution by polling units and the ward, local government areas and state collation centres have been uploaded to the INEC website and social media platforms for public information.
Lateefah Ibrahim
