The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deployed a total of 46,084 regular and ad-hoc staff for the November 11 governorship elections in
This is even as the Commission expressed concern about the prevailing insecurity and election-related violence ahead of the polls.
He said: “As we said repeatedly, we are concerned about the prevailing insecurity and election-related violence in the three States. We have been reassured of adequate deployment by the security agencies. “We have so far accredited 126 national and international organisations collectively deploying 11,000 observers for the election.”
Yakubu added: “The 18 political parties participating in the elections are deploying 137,934 agents made up of 130,093 polling and 7,841 collation agents. We are also finalising arrangements for vehicles and boats for land and maritime movement of personnel and materials.”
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