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INEC Releases Summary of Polling and Collation Agents for Ondo 2024 Governorship Election By Shalom Oludele

INEC Releases Summary of Polling and Collation Agents for Ondo 2024 Governorship Election

In view of the closure of the portal for the upload of polling and collation agents for the Ondo State Governorship Election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has published the summary of submissions made by political parties.

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The portal opened on 20th August 2024 and automatically shut down at midnight on Monday 30th September 2024 as indicated on item 9 on the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the election, released in September 2023.

According to the press release of Friday 4th October 2024, on X, the national commissioner & chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun mni, gave the summary as Ondo State having 3,933 polling units and 222 collation centres, consisting of 203 ward centres, 18 local government centres and the state collation centre in Akure.

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He further stated that a political party fielding candidates in the election is expected to nominate 4,155 agents. From the 18 parties participating in the election, the commission expected a cumulative figure of 74,790 agents.

According to Olumekun, only 24,148 were uploaded to the portal, made up of 22,689 polling, 1,249 ward, 196 local government and 14 state collation agents. Put together, the 18 political parties nominated 32.3% of the expected number of agents.

The also revealed that three political parties have no agents at all levels of polling or collation.

The commission directed the general public to its website and social media platforms for detailed breakdown of the submissions for public information.

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