INEC Addresses The Possibility Of Extending The Deadline For Polling Agents.

The Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee at INEC, Sam Olumekun, made this statement in a press release on Sunday in Abuja…CONTINUE READING....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

Olumekun noted that with less than 72 hours remaining until the deadline, only 55 percent of the expected agents for polling units and collation centers had been uploaded onto INEC’s portal by political parties for the upcoming governorship election.

Therefore, he urged political parties that have not yet complied with this requirement to do so before the deadline.

Olumekun explained that INEC had informed all parties about the opening of its online portal for uploading the list of polling units and collation center agents, which commenced on August 24. Subsequently, the commission engaged with party representatives to discuss the methodology for a smooth process.

Despite these notifications and reminders, parties have not fully complied by submitting the list of their agents.

He provided specific statistics, stating, “For Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi, only 55 percent of the expected total of 189,180 polling unit agents have been uploaded to the designated INEC Portal.

To be specific, 29,278 out of the expected 40,372 (72.5 percent for Bayelsa; 51,681 out of 85,644 (60.3 percent) for Imo, and 23,720 out of 63,144 (37.6 percent) for Kogi State have been uploaded.

Similarly, only 25.1 percent of the expected 15,804 Collation Agents in the three states have been uploaded: 1,246 (26.0 percent) out of 4,806 for Bayelsa; 1,638 (27.3 percent) out of 5,994 for Imo, and 1,095 (21.9 percent) out of 5,004 for Kogi.”