Nearly 1.58 million polling unit agents have been nominated by 18 political parties for the general elections starting this Saturday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced.
According to the document released on Monday evening by INEC, 1,574,301 polling units agents were nominated by registered parties for the exercise.
The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has the highest number of polling units agents – 176,588.
It is followed by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with 176,233, New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has 176,200, and Labour Party with 134,874.
All the political parties also nominated 68,057 collation agents and 27 agents for the National Collation Centre.
Nigeria has 176,846 polling units but elections would only take place in 176,606 as 240 of the total figure have no registered voters, according to INEC.
Kano has the highest number of party polling unit agents – 145,393 – from three political parties – APC, PDP and NNPP – followed by Lagos with 98,646 from the three political parties; and Rivers with 79,795.
