Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that a total of 1,574,301 polling units agents would take part in the exercise.
INEC made the revelation known in a report released on Monday, titled, “Summary of Polling Unit and Collation Centre agents submitted by political parties submitted for the general 2023”.
The electoral body also revealed 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 revealed 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 has 9,604; LP 4,859; PDP 9,539; APC 9,581, while other 14 political parties have 34,474 as collation officers.
The INEC report also revealed 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.
