After the news of African Democratic Congress (ADC) throwing it’s weight behind the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter obi, LP is now judged to have the highest number of polling units agents.
The report of the endorsement means both the LP and ADC would have 230,917 combined agents on the day of the Presidential elections.
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Monday adopted Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party’s (LP) as its presidential candidate for the 2023 Presidential elections.
The list of polling units agents released by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, showed that the Labour Party has 134,874 and the ADC has a total of 96,043 polling agents.
The Electoral body disclosed in a report on Monday night titled “Summary of Polling Unit and Collation Centre Agents Submitted by Political Parties for the 2023 General Election.”
The report revealed that in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, APC had the most agents at 13,306 followed by NNPP at 13, 273. Labour recorded 12,361 agents in Lagos.
In the Federal Capital, the PDP recorded 2826 agents, followed by NNPP with 2824, Labour recorded 2794 agents in the FCT.
The total number of agents: APC – 176,223, NNPP – 176,200, PDP – 176,588, LP – 134,874 and ADC- 96,043.
With the adoption of the LP by the ADC , it is expected that the polling units agents will also merge to amount to 230,917.
If this happens , then the LP will have the highest number of polling units agents in the run for the presidential election come Saturday, 25th February.
