● As INEC releases a list of party agents, collation officers for the exercise
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has demonstrated its readiness to police its votes in the first of the series of polls beginning on Saturday, February 25, 2023.
When, ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, announced that a total of 1,574,301 polling units agents would take part in the exercise, the PDP accounted for 176,588 agents of the figure.
INEC made the total figure and breakdown of each party’s figures known in a report released on Monday, entitled, “Summary of Polling Unit and Collation Centre agents submitted by political parties submitted for the general 2023.”
The electoral body also indicated that a total of 68,057 would participate in the general elections as collation agents for the respective political parties.
According to INEC, the polling and collation agents were nominated by the 18 political parties as their representatives in the 2023 elections.
A breakdown of the report showed that the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has 176,200 agents, Labour party, 134,874 agents; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), 176,588 agents; All Progressives Congress (APC), 176,223 agents; while other 14 political parties have a total number of 910,426 agents.
The report also showed that a total number 68,057 would also participate in the elections as collation agents in the registration area/ward, local government, and state.
Further breakdown, according to the report, showed that NNPP had 9,604; LP 4,859; PDP 9,539; APC 9,581, while the other 14 political parties had 34,474 as collation officers.
The INEC report also showed that 27 people would serve as agents at the National Collation Centre.
The ruling APC has two, same as PDP and LP, while NNPP has one and the other 14 political parties have 20 agents.
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