2023: INEC publishes list of 240 affected polling stations with unregistered voters
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published a list of the affected 240 polling stations in the country it had, last Monday, declared as not having unregistered voters.
The list published, Tuesday, contained the polling locations said by INEC not to have registered voters for the forthcoming 2023 General Elections in the country. The electorate were reportedly not allowed to register or conclude registration processes owing to the insecurity in their various locations due to the activities of armed actors said to be targetting public institutions and their personnel.
INEC, it would be recalled, had declared that voting will not be conducted in the affected polling stations spread across the 28 states of the country, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) due to high level of insecurity.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who disclosed this, Monday, during a meeting with political party leaders, said 12 of the affected stations are located in the FCT, even as he added that Imo and Taraba states topped the overall list with 38 and34 stations, respectively.
“There are 240 polling units without registered voters spread across 28 states and the FCT. They range from one polling unit to 12 polling units in the states as FCT except for Taraba and Imo states with 34 and 38 polling units respectively.
“No new registrant chose the polling units and no voter indicated interest to transfer to them during the last CVR mainly for security reasons. This means that no election would be held in these poling units,” the INEC Chairman said.
