By: Mercy Peter
The Independent National Electoral Commission is expected to commence the deployment of sensitive materials today ahead of this weekend governorship election in Edo state.
NewsSpecng gathered that no fewer than 5,000 Bimodal Voter Accreditation Systems would be deployed for the poll.
Other Sensitive materials, including ballot papers and result sheets, arrived in Edo State on Wednesday via Benin Airport and were transported to secure storage facilities under tight security, NewsSpecng also gathered.
No fewer than 2.2million residents of the state are expected to troop out to vote in a new governor as the tenure of Godwin Obaseki comes to an end.
The campiagn trainof all the 17 contenders for the gover or’s seat is expected to come to.a halt today, 24 hours before the election.
It was further learnt that the commission would deploy more than 18,000 ad-hoc staff for the poll.
Based on INEC’s staffing structure, each of the 4,519 polling units in Edo State will require a team of four officers, comprising a Presiding Officer and three Assistant Presiding Officers (APO I, II, and III), totaling 18,076 ad-hoc staff.
In addition to the POs and APOs, INEC will also dispatch Supervisory Presiding Officers to manage operations at various polling units across the state.
