ONDO GUBER 2024: the 18 political parties nominated 32.3% of the expected number of agents- INEC

.… APGA ,BP & NRM have Zero Agents

Oru Leonard 

As the portal for the upload of polling and collation agents for the Ondo State Governorship election closes, the Independent National Electoral Commission has published the summary of submissions made by political parties.

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 almost a year ago in September 2023.

As statement signed by the National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun today disclosed that In Ondo State, there are 3,933 polling units and 222 collation centres, consisting of 203 ward centres, 18 Local Government centres and the State collation centre in Akure.

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. However, 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.

Three political parties have no agents at all levels of polling or collation.

“A detailed breakdown of the submissions has been uploaded to our website and social media platforms for public information”, Sam concluded.

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