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2023 Elections: Nigeria’s Electoral Body Begins Voting Points Conversion

A ballot box with the lettering 'Independent national electoral commission' is seen at a polling station of Gombi, Adamawa State, Nigeria on February 15, 2019, one day ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections. - Over 84 million people are registered to vote -- up 18 percent on 2015 and another record, which has been taken as a sign of Nigeria's developing democracy. Also up for grabs are 360 seats in the lower House of Representatives and 109 in the Senate. Nearly 120,000 polling units are set to open at 0700 GMT and close at 1600 GMT. No date has been given for the results, but an announcement is expected from early next week. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP) (Photo credit should read LUIS TATO/AFP/Getty Images)

Nigeria’s Electoral Body has commenced the conversion of voting points across the country to Polling Units.

According to the head of the Electoral Body Professor Mahmud Yakubu, this is to enable eligible voters to have access to polling units during the elections and thereby disaggregating Voting points that were initially overcrowded.

head of the Electoral Body Professor Mahmud Yakubu

Professor Yakubu while visiting voting points in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Abuja and neigbouring Northwest state of Narsarawa, says that voters will now have access to polling units near their homes and will not need to walk long distances to exercise their franchise.

He adds that the process is ongoing simultaneously across the country.

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