Election will not hold in 240 polling units across the country, NewsSpecng has learnt.
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this on Monday while briefing the leaders of political parties.
Currently, there are 176,846 polling Units in the country.
Consequently, the February and March 2023 general elections will hold in 176,606 polling units across the country.
Yakubu said the 240 polling units do not have voters as nobody chose to vote there.
The break down of the number of the polling units across the 28 affected states and FCT are : Abia (12); Adamawa (4); Anambra (6); Bauchi (6); Bayelsa (2); Benue (10); Borno (12); Delta (4); Ebonyi (4); Edo (1); Enugu (4); Imo (38); Jigawa (3); Kaduna (8); Kano (10); Katsina (12); Kebbi (5); Kwara (1); Lagos (3), Nasarawa (11); Niger (10); Ondo (2); Plateau (6); Rivers (1); Sokoto (8); Taraba (34); Yobe (11); Zamfara (1) and the FCT (11).
He said ”There are 240 polling units without registered voters spread across 28 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). They range from one polling unit to 12 polling units in each State and the FCT, except Taraba and Imo States with 34 and 38 polling units respectively.
“No new registrants chose the polling units and no voters indicated interest to transfer to them during the last Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), mainly for security reasons. This means that no elections will hold in these polling units.
“In our avowed commitment to transparency, the Commission is making available to Nigerians a comprehensive list of these polling units by name, code number and their locations by State, Local Government and Registration Area.
“With this development, the number of polling units where elections will hold nationwide on 25th February 2023 and 11th March 2023 is now 176,606. Hard copies of the list are included in your folders for this meeting.
“Above all, Nigerians deserve the right to know the locations of these polling units.”
