The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kano State said it has approved 11,222 polling units ahead of the 2023 general polls.
INEC Kano Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Riskuwa Arabu, made this known at a one-day workshop on electoral reportage organised by the Kano State Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and sponsored by INEC.
“Media are part of INEC, they project our work in a way that people appreciate us particularly in the area of voter education,” he said.
Arabu noted that the interactive session was to help the commission fine-tune processes and procedures so that the integrity of polls would be improved upon so that the country would have transparent elections.
“We have 484 wards of polling units across the 44 local governments in the state,” he said.
According to him, as of January 2022 in Kano State, 128,628 residents have completed their voter registration, out of which 77,255 were valid and 51,373, the equivalent of 39.9 per cent, were declared invalid.
Arabu pledged to hold the interactive session quarterly and called on the public members who have yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) to do so.
“We have 481,318 both old and new PVCs yet to be collected,” he said.