The Independent National Electoral Commission is to re-start the
delimitation of constituencies suspended shortly before the general
elections in 2015.
The Acting Chairman of INEC, Amina Zakari, said this when the new
Surveyor General of the Federation, Ebisintei Awudu, visited her in
Abuja.
This information, gleaned from the commission’s daily bulletin on
Tuesday, quoted Zakari as explaining that it was suspended due to the
high level of controversy it generated at that time.
“Now that the elections are over, we have to dust our Memorandum of
Understanding and process the agreement to commence the delimitation,”
she said.
She explained that apart from the Office of the SGOF, the commission
had also signed partnership agreement with Nigerian Postal Service.
Zakari said INEC also signed MoU with the National Space Research and
Development Agency, the National Population Commission and others for
collaboration on the project.
She stressed that the MoU with OSGOF was for the provision of maps and
for technical support.
Earlier, Awudu said the visit was aimed at dusting the earlier MoU
INEC and his office signed and to discuss other issues of mutual
interest relating to surveying and mapping.
He said his team was in INEC to discuss what the OSGOF could do to
support the constituencies’ delimitation and the conduct of Kogi and
Bayelsa States’ governorship elections.
Awudu pledged to support INEC with satellite imagery map of the whole
country, settlement data, training, technical and other logistics.
NAN.
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