2023: INEC Creates 1,235 New Polling Units in Imo
The Independent National Electoral Commission has created an additional 1,235 polling units in Imo state to expand access to voters, which brings the polling units in Imo Satate to a total of 4,758.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Francis Ezeonu, in Owerri on Wednesday, said that the polling units were created with the threshold of five hundred to seven hundred and fifty registered voters in each polling unit. Under the new arrangement, Owerri municipality has one hundred and twenty-two new polling unit, followed by Owerri West with One hundred and seventeen polling units. Owerri North and Ikeduru local government areas came third and fourth with ninety-one and eighty polling units respectively while Aboh Mbaise has seventy-nine new polling units.
Existing laws allow the elections regulator to convert existing voting point settlements to full-fledged voting units and relocate new or existing ones to the place they are closer to voters and unserved areas, where necessary. The REC, Ezeonu, reiterated that under no conditions were polling units located in private compounds, royal places, residents of government officials, political party buildings, worship centers or anywhere that could deny voters access, and disputed buildings or facilities. #
