The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it needs to recruit and train over 1.2 million ad hoc staff to prepare adequately for the 2023 general elections.
This statement was made at the lecture delivered at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at the Chatham House in London on Tuesday 17th January 2023.
The statement which was posted on INEC’s official Twitter handle reads
“for the general election, the commission requires at least 707,384 presiding and assistant presiding officers, 9,620 collation/returning officers, as well as 530,538 polling unit security officials”. This statement was made by the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Professor Mahmood Yakubu.
Professor Mahmood said these staff must be recruited and trained to carry out a free and fair election. Professor Mahmood Yakubu also made it known that there is no plan to postpone the upcoming elections as the Commission plans to use Election Logistics Framework (ELF) to guide the logistics for the general election from planning through deployment and retrieval. This is the first of its kind.
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