The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it would need about One Million Officials to conduct the 2023 General Election in the 176,846 polling units across the Country.
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, made the revelation at the first Quarter 2022 Meeting of the Forum of Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Secretaries to State Governments in Abuja, yesterday.
Yakubu, who spoke on the impact of Elections on Bureaucracy in Nigeria, said the one million officials would include both regular and ad HOC staff.
Represented by a National Commissioner, Sam Olumekun, he lamented the continued refusal of political parties to file their statutory returns to the commission, saying the umpire would ensure that electoral outcome would continue to be determined by legitimate votes.
The INEC Boss, who maintained that the impact of elections on judicial bureaucracy in terms of the upsurge of cases was open to debate, added that INEC has more than 220 cases as fallout of the conduct of elections.
According to him, since the last electoral cycle, the commission has deliberately and purposively undertaken several important measures to strengthen and enhance the quality of the electoral system.
