The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that it plans to deploy over one million officials for the general elections in Nigeria in 2023.
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said this at the public presentation of the 2022-2026 Strategic Plan (SP) and the 2023 Election Project Plan in Abuja on Thursday (EPP).
The officials, he said, will be made up of both permanent and ad-hoc workers who will work together to ensure the election’s success across the country’s 176,846 voting sites.
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According to INEC’s chairman, the general election in 2023 would be contested in 1,491 constituencies across the country, comprising one presidential constituency, 109 senatorial districts, 360 federal constituencies, 28 gubernatorial elections, and 993 state constituencies.
Yakubu added that the conduct of next year’s election will be guided by the 2022 electoral act.
“The election will involve an estimated one million electoral officials (both permanent and temporary or ad hoc staff) deployed to 176,846 polling units in 8,809 wards and 774 local government areas across the country.
“The election will be governed by a new Electoral Act 2022, which contains many progressive provisions that will enhance the capacity of the commission to conduct elections and manage the electoral process better,” he said.
On the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, the INEC Chairman reiterated that the exercise will end on June 30, 2022, and urged eligible Nigerians to register for their PVCs.
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For those who registered between June and December 2021, he urged them to collect their already produced PVCs in person.
Yakubu said: “All eligible voters that are yet to register are advised to do so on or before that date if they intend to vote.
“Furthermore, the PVCs of validly registered voters from the first and second quarters are already available for collection at designated centres nationwide.
“I would like to appeal to all Nigerians who registered between June and December 2021 to collect their PVCs in person as no PVCs will be collected by proxy.
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