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9.15am. At Ward1,PU7, local govt library 1,Orolu LGA voting has since commenced, with a total of 282 registered voters. Here is an elderly woman being attended to. The police and custom officers present confirmed that it has been peaceful so far.

Voting in Osun used to illustrate the story

2019: 22,643 candidates contesting 1,504 positions – INEC

byAgency Report
January 14, 2019
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The INEC National Commissioner for North-central, Mohammed Haruna, has said that 22,643 candidates would contest 1,504 positions during the forthcoming general elections in the country.

Mr Haruna, who is in charge of Kwara, Kogi and Nasarawa states, made this known on Monday in Ilorin during an interactive session with traditional rulers in the state ahead of 2019 general elections.

The commissioner said that 73 candidates would contest for the post of the president while 1,158 would slug it out for the governorship positions in 29 states.

He added that 1,886 candidates would contest the 109 senatorial districts in the country and 4,634 candidates contesting for the 306 House of Representatives seats.

Mr Haruna said 14,643 candidates would contest for 991 posts in the various State Houses of Assembly.

“In addition, the elections will hold for the six chairmen and 62 councilors of the FCT Area Councils because the end of their tenures has coincided with this year’s general elections,” he said.

Mr Haruna said the governorship elections would hold in 29 states, adding it would not hold in seven states: Kogi, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun.

He said the elections in those states had been held, based on the court’s order.

He said INEC would deploy between 750,000 and one million ad-hoc staff to be sourced mainly from NYSC, federal tertiary institutions, and Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

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The official told the royal fathers that 84,004,084 voters are expected to participate in the general elections.

“The commission has been diligently implementing the timetable and schedule of activities for the 2019 general elections.

“We have so far implemented 9 out of the 14 activities. Soon, we shall implement all activities and fulfill the mandate thrust upon us by the Constitution.

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“The commission has made available to each political party a copy of the entire national register of voters.”

He said the commission had printed and delivered the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to the states for collection by registered voters.

“We urged registered voters who have not collected their PVCs to pick their cards.

“For this, INEC has specially arranged for those who are yet to collect their cards to do so from Jan.16 to Jan.21, at the designated centres in their wards.”

Mr Haruna emphasised that INEC would use the Smart Card Readers (SCR) for the general elections, adding that the commission had procured additional 27, 327 card readers and enhanced the performance of 164, 763 old ones.

According to him, the performance of readers has improved from the 93.1 per cent in Kogi in 2015 to 99 per cent now.

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The commissioner, who expressed concern on the low turnout of voters during elections in the country, appealed to the royal fathers to always mobilise their subjects to vote during elections.

Mr Haruna said to discourage vote buying, the commission had altered the configuration of the polling units by moving the ballot boxes closer to the voting cubicles.

This, he said would make it difficult for voters to expose their marked ballot papers to party agents for payment.

“We have introduced a partial ban on the use of mobile phone and other photographic devices by voters while in the voting cubicles.

“We are also introducing the rolling and flattening of ballot papers by voters before casting them into the ballot boxes.”

Mr Haruna, therefore, appealed to royal fathers to help in enlightening the people of their domains about various aspects of elections.

(NAN)

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