The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that more than 1.4 million ad-hoc staff will be trained in the effective usage of the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, made this disclosure during an interview on a television programme, tagged, 2022 In Retrospect, an End-Of-Year special.
The Commission said it had sufficient BVAS to conduct elections in the 176,846 polling units nationwide.
Okoye further stated that the processes and procedures of the Commission are going well as planned and Nigerians should expect a very good election in 2023.
He said by December 30, 2022, political parties were supposed to have submitted the names, signatures and personal particulars of their polling agents in relation to national election. On January 6, 2023, they are supposed to submit the names, the signatures, photographs and particulars of their agents on state elections, he said.
The INEC Commissioner also said on January 12, 2023, INEC will release the official list of voters noting that all these things are going as planned and they are going to be accomplished on schedule.
