The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday held its first meeting to review the 2023 general elections conducted in Nigeria.
The electoral body in a tweet disclosed that the meeting will last for the next two weeks.
“The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today met with Electoral Officers from 36 States, the FCT and Transport Unions, at the first in the series of 2023 Post Election Review Meetings, scheduled to hold over the next two weeks,” it tweeted.
The Commission said it traditionally holds such review meetings after every general election, to holistically look at what worked, what didn’t and identify critical areas for improvement.
For the 2023 general elections, the Commission stated that it deployed men and materials to 176,606 polling units nationwide.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in his address, said the success of any election primarily depends on the ability to deploy personnel and materials to various locations.
“In Nigeria, “this involves the biggest logistic deployment the nation periodically undertakes across vast terrains and often difficult topography,” Yakubu noted.
He listed the following areas of discussion: general state of preparedness for the 2023 general elections, voters’ registration process, PVC collection and associated issues.
The others are recruitment, training, deployment and remuneration of ad-hoc staff, matters arising from the expansion of voter access to polling units, receipt and deployment of election materials.
Other areas of discussion are issues around deployment of technology, election security and election day processes.
