INEC
Ahead of the forthcoming Edo State Governorship election, the country's electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has released an update on the election.
Arriving from its meeting, today, the commission, among other matters, reviewed the ongoing preparations for the Edo and Ondo State Governorship elections.
A statement released by the commission revealed that only three political parties submitted lists of all party agents across all the 4,730 collation centers in Edo State at the Polling Units, Wards, Local Government Areas, and State levels. However, a political party, Boot Party, refused to submit any name as its collation agent across the 4,730 collation centers in Edo State.
The commission said:
"Nigerians may recall that since 2020, the Commission has replaced the manual process for accreditation of observers, media, polling, and collation agents with dedicated portals to which the required information, including photographs, is uploaded. Political parties were subsequently required to upload the details of their agents for polling units and collation centers for all elections.
"For the Edo State Governorship Election, the portal opened on 17th July 2024 and automatically shut down at midnight on 30th July 2024 as indicated on item 9 on the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the election released almost a year ago in September 2023.
"In Edo State, there are 4,519 polling units and 211 collation centers, comprising 192 ward centers, 18 Local Government centers, and the State collation center in Benin city. A political party fielding candidate in the election is expected to nominate 4,730 agents.
"From the 17 parties participating in the election, the Commission expected a cumulative figure of 80,410 agents. However, only 44,687 were uploaded to the portal made up of 43,043 polling, 1,452 wards, 179 Local Government, and 13 State collation agents. Put together, the 17 political parties nominated 55.6% of the expected number of agents.
"Three political parties uploaded the details of their agents for all levels of polling and collation while one party has no single agent for any level of voting or collation.
A summary of the submissions by political parties in Edo State was given as follows:
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Published 8/8/2024 10:37:37 PM