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THE Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said as of Monday, February, 15, 2021, the commission had received no fewer than 9,777 requests for additional polling units across the country.
The INEC Chairman said this during a sensitisation visit on the creation of additional polling units, to the Arewa Consultative Forum, in Kaduna, on Tuesday.
Yakubu recalled that the commission created 119,973 polling units in 1996, noting that for 25 years it had yet to create additional polling units.
According to him, the growing demand by Nigerians for the creation of additional polling units was on the rise.
He explained that from October 2020 when the commission received 5,700 requests for additional polling units, the number of requests have increased to 4,077 in just four months.
Yakubu said, “Since 1999, the nation had conducted six general elections using the same polling units. The growing demands by Nigerians for additional polling units are increasing by the day.
