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The Chairman of the electoral agency, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, made the call on Thursday in Abuja.
The certificate was presented to Tinubu Wednesday by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The hope of ninety three million, four hundred and sixty nine thousand and eight registered Nigerian voters must not be shattered because of an economic miscalculation by Nigeria’s apex bank, Central Bank of Nigeria.
Public watchdog body, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) made this call in a statement signed Sunday, by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, urging INEC boss, also to include in the publication the safety of the agency’s “servers, databases and other electronic formats.”
With the new timetable, the presidential election formerly slated for February 18 2023 will hold on February 25, 2023.
From the 119,974 voting units the country had used for 25 years, INEC shot up the total number of voting booths to 176,846, an increase of 56,872. This new configuration inflated Nigeria’s voting space by 47 percent. For the 2019 general elections, voters on INEC’s register amounted to some 84,004,084 names. That means that, give or take a few voters, the new figure of 176,846 booths would be catering for 500 voters apiece. That should create some elbowroom of convenience for voters.
The Commission made the announcement in Abuja on Wednesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari had sought the confirmation of Yakubu as the Chairman of INEC from the Senate.
The letter of reappointment of Prof. Yakubu was read on the floor of the Senate by the Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday.