The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will deploy a total of 7,941 ad-hoc staff to conduct next Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State.
Similarly, the Commandant-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps,(NSCD), Dr Ade Abolurin has handed down a stern warning to officers and men of the corps to steer away from accepting any form of logistic supports from government or individuals ahead the election.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Halilu Pai gave the figure while briefing journalist at the Commission’s headquarters in Ado Ekiti.
He said that the bulk of the ad-hoc staff are corps members, while the rest are students of federal tertiary institutions.
Pai said the commission engaged such a high number in order to be able to attend to a total of 766,132 persons that were duly registered as voters in the state.
He said out of the figure, 2,195 will work as Presiding Officers while 5,605 will work as Assistant Presiding Officers.
According to him, some of the ad-hoc staff would be deployed in the 177 electoral wards as well as the 16 collation centres at the local government headquarters while the rest would man affairs at the State capital, Ado-Ekiti.
The INEC Commissioner said in order to avoid cases of delayed payment to ad-hoc staff in such exercise, money meant for those engaged had already been credited into the account of Ekiti state office of NYSC.
He said each Corps member would receive a sum of N11,000, made up of N7,000 as honorarium and N4,000 as basic transport fare.
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