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INEC begins inauguration of two Ad-hoc Committees - Full report

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has reportedly began the inauguration of two Ad-hoc Committee s to drive important components of the electoral processes in the 2019 general elections.



Today,  the Commission is taking another step in our determination to ensure seamless preparation for the 2019 general elections. As we move closer to the elections, the Commission has decided to set up two Ad-hoc Staff Committees to drive important components of the electoral processes.

The first Committee is responsible for electoral logistics. The Commission is aware that the conduct of a general elections is the biggest and most complex logistics operation a nation can undertake.

Sensitive and non-sensitive materials procured by INEC mist be delivered to 200000 locations nationwide, ranging from  the polling units to various Wards, Local government areas, State, and nationwide collation centers for the 1,558 constituencies into which elections will be conducted.



At the end of the elections, sensitive materials will be retrieved from the same locations.

The same process will be repeated for each of the two phases of the 2019 general elections, namely the Presidential and National Assembly election holding on 16th February, 2019 and the Governorship, State Assembly and Area Council election in the Federal Capital Territory on 2nd March, 2019.

For the 2019 general elections, the Electoral logistics Committee will be responsible for coordinating logistics support as well as clearance and transportation of election materials to various locations nationwide.

The Committee includes relevant security agencies whose roles are clearly defined in Section 29 (3) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

The second Ad-hoc Committee, which is entirely internal to the Commission, shall be responsible for the national collation centre from where result of the Presidential election will be announced.



As was the case in 2015, the Commission will use the International Conference Centre, [ICC], in Abuja. Already, the management of ICC has approved the Commission's request to once again use the venue in 2019.

It will serve as the Secretariat for collation of result and venue for briefing of International observers and the media. It will also be accessible to agents of 73 political parties fielding candidates in the presidential election.

Facilities such as power, access to internet, live transmission for national and international media as well as accreditation for access to ICC and security of the venue shall be handled by the committee.
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