Independent National Electoral Commission in Ogun State says it has created additional 1,832 Polling Units in addition to the 3,210 existing ones in Ogun.
INEC said the development was to allow voters to exercise their franchise as embedded in the constitution.
This was disclosed by the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. AbdulGaniy Raji, in Abeokuta, adding that the additional polling units would encourage voter access to voting centres in the state.
According to him, the difficulties encountered by voters have forced the commission to create new polling units.
He also lamented that repeated attempts to expand voter access to polling units were allegedly stalled by “politicisation and conspiracy theories about the commission’s intentions.”
Raji added, “The commission at its meeting held on Tuesday 20th April, 2021 deliberated on the subject and approved the lower and upper thresholds for voting points to 500 and 750 voters, respectively.
“On the basis of this, additional 1,832 polling units were marked for creation from existing polling units within the threshold. This brings the number of units in Ogun state from the existing 3,210 to 5,042.
“Memoranda and requests that have been received from communities and stakeholders over the years were collated and considered as much as possible and feasible on line with the guidance in the location of the new PUs.”
He, however, announced that the commission would start continuous voter registration effective on Monday 28th June, 2021.