INEC to deploy 5, 603 personnel for Imo, Kogi

dimeji akinloye 09:30 - 20 July 2016

Voter during an election

The area has 390,311 registered voters spread across eight local government areas, with 64 registration areas and 817 polling units.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), will deploy 5,603 personnel for Saturday’s outstanding rerun elections in Imo and

This is contained in the commission’s daily bulletin made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja.

The commission will deploy 4,105 personnel to conduct elections into one senatorial district of Imo North and three state constituencies, viz: Isiala Mbano, Oru East and Owerri West.

Also, INEC will deploy 1,498 personnel for the Kogi re-run elections, to be conducted to fill vacancies into Kogi East Senatorial district and Ofu and Idah state constituencies, involving eight local government areas.

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