Elections Won’t hold in 240 Polling Units – INEC

….The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that voting would not hold in 240 polling units during the general election scheduled to take place in less than 12 days.

……Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of INEC, stated this during a meeting with party leaders on Monday. Yakubu stated nobody chose to vote in these polling units.

At the meeting, the electoral body also revealed that 1,574,000 polling agents registered to be at the PUs nationwide.

Furthermore, Yakubu told the leaders of political parties that INEC met with service chiefs to guarantee the security of election officials.

,,,,,,,Meanwhile, he bemoaned the lawsuits against INEC, saying 18 political parties have over 1,200 cases at the Federal High Courts alone, more than when the commission was dealing with 91 political parties.