After 3 Flops In 25 Years, INEC Meets Parties Today Over New Polling Units
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will, today, meet with political parties to brainstorm on how best to create additional Polling Units (PUs) in the country, Daily Trust gathered.
A senior official of the commission told our correspondent that the meeting was part of the series of consultations lined up by the commission to engage critical stakeholders on the creation of new PUs.
With 84.04 million registered voters, based on the 2019 figure, the country has 119,973 PUs which were established by the defunct National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON) in 1996.
Daily Trust reports that three attempts to create additional polling units in the country were unsuccessful following agitation by various interest groups. The last attempt was in August 2014 when ...