By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has announced plans to convert voting points into full fledge Polling Units across the country.
This was stated by Barr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner during a stakeholders meeting on expanding voter access to polling units, in Kano on Saturday.
“In 1996, across Nigeria, there were 119,973 polling units when there was 50 million registered voters. Now that there are 87 million registered voters in the country, there is need to exp and and establish new polling units across the country.
“The…