Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has expressed the Commission\u2019s intention to create more polling units in Nigeria, ahead of the 2023 general elections. There are currently 119,973 polling units and 57,023 voting points across the country. The current structure of polling units was established in 1996 and INEC subsequently created voting points prior to the 2011 general elections to enhance efficiency in election management by decongesting polling units that had more than 750 registered voters. Voting Point Settlements (VPS) were also created in the Federal Capital Territory in addition to polling units and voting points (section 3, INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections 2019). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The issue of additional polling units which was\nshelved ahead of the 2015 general elections seems to have come to the fore. It\nwill be recalled that in August 2014, INEC under the leadership of Prof.\nAttahiru Jega sought to create 30,027 additional polling units ahead of the\n2015 general elections, with 21,615 in the north and 8,412 in the southern part\nof the country. However, controversy trailed the proposed plan, leading to its suspension\nby the Commission. Nigeria\u2019s rapidly growing population and changing\ndemographics, as well as, registration of new voters, creation of new\nsettlements, including camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), the need to decongest crowded\npolling units in urban areas, may be some of the reasons that have given rise\nto plans for the creation of more polling units. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has expressed the Commission\u2019s intention to create more polling units in Nigeria, ahead of the 2023 general elections. There are currently 119,973 polling units and 57,023 voting points across the country. The current structure of polling units was established in 1996 and INEC subsequently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-inec-considers-additional-polling-units-ahead-of-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}