The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC on Wednesday announced the creation of additional 56,873 polling units.
The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners.
This brings the number of polling units in the country to 176,846 polling units.
Yakubu said the commission had also removed 749 Polling Units from inappropriate facilities, with nine of them from shrines and several others from religious houses, royal palaces and private property.
He further noted that Nigeria now has a total of 176, 846 Polling Units from the initial 119, 973 following the conversion of voting points and voting points settlement to full-fledged Polling Units.
What you should know
The Expansion of voter access to polling units has been one of the commission’s age-long goals to decongest existing polling units in parts of the country.
It comes at a time that no fewer than 42 of the INEC facilities across Nigeria have been affected by different attacks as it pursues relevant obligations, one of which is the expansion of citizens’ access to polling units.