The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured that it is 90 per cent ready for the Nov. 11 governorship election in Kogi.
Dr Gabriel Longpet, the Kogi INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, made this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on telephone in Lokoja on Monday.
Mr Longpet also disclosed that the commission has recruited over 15,000 adhoc staff to help it in the smooth conduct of the polls.
“We have 3,508 polling units and each of these units will be manned by four adhoc staff aside the security personnel that will be around to ensure peaceful conduct of the election.
“We shall deploy more staff and BVAS in densely populated polling units to complement those we are going to use.
“To be precise, we are going to use more than 900 back-up BVAS.
“This is because some polling units have more than 1,000 to 2,000 registered voters, and we have to split the number by creating more voting points for easy voting.
“This become imperative as we don’t want to give room for anything that will delay the process.
“As soon as there is a report of any BVAS failure or challenge, we shall provide another one and configure it to that polling unit for smooth continuation of voting,” he said.
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