Ahead of the general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed a total of 1,574, 301 polling unit agents to participate in the 2023 elections.
This was disclosed by INEC disclosed on Monday when releasing its report titled: “Summary of Polling Unit and Collation Centre agents submitted by political parties submitted for the general 2023.”
According to the report, the electoral body has a total of 68,057 that is expected to also participate in the forthcoming elections as collation agents.
Stating that the New Nigerian Peoples Party, (NNPP) has 176, 200 agents, while Labour party has 134, 874 agents, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has 176,588 agents, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has 176,223 agents, while the other 14 political parties have a total number of 910,426 agents.
Thus, the report also showed that a total number of 68,057 would also participate in the elections as collation agents in the registration area/war, local government, and state.
While NNPP had 9,604; LP 4,859; PDP – 9,539; APC – 9,581, with the other 14 political parties having 34,474 collation officers.
And having the INEC report revealing 27 people to serve as agents at the National collation centre, the APC had two, same as PDP and LP, while NNPP has one and the other 14 political parties have 20 agents.
Even as the polling and collation agents were nominated by the 18 political parties as their representatives in the 2023 elections.