In the elections that will hold on Saturday, April 11, five thousand two hundred and ninety candidates will be contesting for the state assembly seats while seven hundred and sixty will be jostling for governorship positions.
The governorship election is taking place in 29 states of
the federation. They are: Abia, Adamawa,
Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue,
Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Imo , Jigawa, Kaduna,
Kano, Katsina, Kebbi,
Kwara, Kogi, Lagos,
Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Osun,
Oyo,Rivers, Sokoto and ZamfaraThe states where governorship
elections will not be taking place on the 11th of April are:Anambra,
Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti Kogi and FCT.
Ahead of Saturday's elections, the Commission had taken
measures to address the challenges of late arrival of materials and men at some
Polling Units across the country and the seeming lack of proficiency in the use
of the Smart Card Reader (SCR) by some ad-hoc staff, which bedevilled the Presidential
and National Assembly Elections.
The Commission firmed up its Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). It also
retrained its ad-hoc staff who would administer the Smart Card Reader.
”Also in several layers of briefings ahead of tomorrow’s
elections, staff - permanent and ad-hoc
- were exhorted to step up their communications and to take advantage of the
hotlines of the INEC Citizens Contact Centre. They are: 09050858629,
09050858675, 09050859649, 08180958715, 08180958717, 08180958709, 09025038466,
07086945927, 08120183063, 07062896047, 08105119010, 08146697603, 07098115257,
07098117563, 07098110916, 07098116381.
INEC said that its
Citizens Contact Centre can also be reached on different social media
platforms such as: Facebook:www.facebook.com/inecnigeria, Twitter:
www.twitter.com/inecnigeria, email: iccc@inec.gov.ng,
website:www.inecnigeria.org, Instagram:@inecnigeria.
It further said that Robust Technical Support Teams of the
Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) department will be deployed to
trouble shoot and fix Smart Card Readers where they fail to work.
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