2023: Why INEC’s creating additional polling units, 25yrs after — Source

 The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has concluded arrangements to embark on creation of additional polling units to provide for a good voting environment and effective implementation of the regulations and guidelines of the commission on election day AHEAD of the 2023 general and presidential elections.

INEC While interacting with newsmen, polling units which form the basis on which citizens exercise their fundamental rights to vote and make electoral choices freely, must be areas where voters have access.

According to the commission, the current configuration of 119,973 polling units was established by the defunct National Electoral Commission  of Nigeria, NECON in 1996 when Chief Karibi Dagogo-Jack was chairman of the commission between 1994 and1998 when late former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, was still in power.