The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has revealed that the ₦198 billion budgetary allocation for the funding of the forthcoming general election, has been released to the commission.
The electoral body has also stated that the results of the February 16 presidential election will be transmitted electronically from the polling units, while the result box will be carried physically by the collation officers.
According to the presentation “the 2019 general election will be the largest single-day peacetime logistics and security undertaking by the commission since 1999, with 84 million voters, 91 political parties, 23,213 candidates vying for 1558 positions, involving over 814,000 electoral officials.”
The chairman explained further that the deployment of non-sensitive materials, like voting Cubicles, Ballot Boxes and others, was ongoing and would be completed on schedule.
