INEC meets NURTW, NARTO, reviews polls logistics

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INEC meets NURTW, NARTO, reviews polls logistics

The Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced a review of the deployment of personnel and materials used during the 2023 general elections.

The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at the post-election review meeting with electoral officers in Abuja on Wednesday.

He said the commission invited transport providers to review logistic arrangements before, during, and after the elections.

He said, “Today, we have begun a more focused engagement at the national level with the commission’s frontline officials and the Electoral Officers. We also considered it appropriate to interface with transport providers to review logistic arrangements. We invited the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, the National Association of Road Transport Owners, and the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria.”

The INEC chairman noted that the success of any election depends on the ability to deploy personnel and materials to various locations.

“In Nigeria, this involves the biggest logistic deployment the nation periodically undertakes across vast terrain and difficult topography. This has been a perennial challenge over time but is now compounded by issues of infrastructure and insecurity,” he added.

He explained that the review would allow INEC to interact with electoral officers in 10 critical areas.

Yakubu said, “This conference provides an opportunity to interact on a wide range of themes, including 10 critical areas: the general state of preparedness for the 2023 general elections; voters registration process and the associated issues of adequacy of timing, display of voter register for claims and objections, clean-up of the voter register, PVC collection, etc, and inventory of election materials, particularly, the status and storage of reusable assets, such as ballot boxes, voting cubicles, and generators, among others.”