The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, said on Friday the commission would not deploy personnel or election materials to the new 86 polling units in Anambra State for the governorship election.
Yakubu disclosed this during the commission’s consultative meeting with leaders of political parties in Abuja.
He said the 86 polling units were among the recently converted polling units and did not have any registered voters in the units.
The INEC Chairman noted that the state would be the first where voting would be taking place in new polling units since the recent conversion of voting points to polling units in Nigeria.
He recalled that an additional 1,112 polling units were established in Anambra in addition to the existing 4,608 locations, bringing the total number of polling units in the state to 5,720.
Yakubu said: “Voters were encouraged to seize the opportunity of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise to transfer to the new polling units most convenient for them. Many did not do so.
“This can be partly attributed to the security situation in the state which has affected the commission’s pre-election outdoor activities, including voter education and sensitisation.”
