Important Things You Should Know Before Election Day In The 2023 Election Now there are only 9 days left for the presidential election...
Important Things You Should Know Before Election Day In The 2023 Election
Now there are only 9 days left for the presidential election. There are 10 important issues to know about this election.
93.5 million people have registered to vote. However, not all of them will vote.
Nigeria's elections are comparable to the elections of other West African countries if they were to gather and hold elections on the same day.
INEC has published 187 million votes for the presidential election. Half of them will be used during the February 25 election. If she wins, there will be a referendum, that is the second round, then the other half of the votes will be used.
There are 18 parties that will release their presidential candidates in the February 25 election.
If there is a referendum, that is the second round when the presidential election does not produce a winner, then INEC will organize the election within 21 days.
If there will not be a referendum, and a presidential candidate does not go to court, then INEC will burn the remaining 93.5 million ballot papers it has printed.
There are 176,846 polling stations where the presidential election will be held. But now they have returned to 176, 606 because INEC has announced that there will be no elections in 240 booths in 28 states and FCT Abuja.
9. The number of ejans that 18 parties will send to the polling station is 1,642,386. Among them, 1,574,301 are ejan in polling booths, that is 'polling egents'. There are 68,088 collation agents who oversee the collection of election results.
Taraba and Imo states have the most polling booths. While Taraba has 34 booths, Imo State has 38.
INEC said that it has already issued ejan identity cards to party representatives at the polling station and at the polling station. Therefore, she does not allow two people to come forward and say that they represent the same party. Only one Ejan is known by INEC. Anyone who disobeys or intentionally interferes with INEC will be arrested and face punishment.