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2023: Polls to hold in 176,996 polling units as INEC creates additional 57,023
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By Charles Kumolu
Twenty five years after the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria, INEC, created Polling Units, PUs, the Commission is poised to create additional 57,023 across the country.
The move would increase the number of voting units from 119,973 to 176,996.
This is barring any further intrigues by vested interests, Vanguard learned.
The then National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, NECON, had created the current 119,973 PUs.
Reasons for the move were said to include the emergence of new settlements across the country, difficult terrain, increase in the number of registered voters and the need to depopulate PUs to prevent electoral fraud.
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THE logjam over the bid by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to create additional 57, 023 polling units from the existing 119, 973 across the country appears settled.
Credible sources told Nigerian Tribune that the stage is apparently set for the exercise after futile manoeuverings by some influential forces to truncate the move, ostensibly for narrow interests.
It will be the first successful exercise by the electoral body in the country in 25 years barring any further arm-twisting and gerrymandering over the crucial issue.
Multiple sources disclosed that the INEC resolved to adopt a lower and upper limit threshold in the quest to create the additional polling units spread across the country.