The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally released a list of 1,500,000 party agents registered by 18 political parties in 176,974 polling units for the February 25 and March 11, 2023, general elections.
According to agent statistics from the major parties, Obi’s LP (Obi) has 134,874 agents, ADC has 96,034, Atiku’s PDP has 176,974 agents, Tinubu’s APC has 176,974 agents, and the other 14 parties have 1,081,358 agents.
Meanwhile, (INEC) said it has sufficient Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) to conduct elections in the 176,846 polling units nationwide.
BVAS is a device introduced by INEC that allows for the accreditation of voters through biometrics capture, the uploading of polling results, and other functions.
According to INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye: “The BVAS, which we said will be the game-changer in relation to this election, is in place.
“And I want to confirm that we have a sufficient number of BVAS that will be used in the conduct of elections in the 176,846 polling units across this country,” he said.
The INEC commissioner said ad-hoc staff will be trained in the effective usage of the BVAS.
“We want to train our ad-hoc staff longer so that we won’t have people not knowing how to use the BVAS and blaming it on technology and so on.
“We are also harvesting the names and details of those that will serve as our ad-hoc staff. For the two elections, the national and state elections, we are going to engage over 1.4 million ad-hoc staff and we are going to train them,” he said.
