Anambra Polls: INEC Deploys 23,000 Ad Hoc Staff For Governorship Election

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says twenty-three thousand (23, 000) ad hoc staff will be deployed for the November 18 governorship election in Anambra. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Anambra, Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, made the disclosure on Monday during the Election Management System Implementer Workshop for INEC officers in Awka.

He said that the ad hoc staff included members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and those redeployed from other states. Orji described the Election Management System as a critical tool, which the commission required to effectively manage field assets, resources, constituencies and chains of electoral activities during election. He said the card readers that would be used for the election had been tested and were working effectively while the configuration of the cards would take four days from now.

The REC explained that the training of the electoral and assistant electoral officers, security agencies and ad-hoc staff had been concluded. The National Commissioner of INEC South East, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu, represented by the Technical Adviser to INEC Chairman, Prof. Bolade Eyinla, urged the participants to take the training seriously as it would help in determining the outcome of the election in the state.

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