March 19 FCT Council Polls: INEC Approves Continuous Accreditation, Voting

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the use of continuous (simultaneous) accreditation and voting for the FCT Chairmanship and Area Council Elections scheduled for Saturday, March 19.
The Commission also said that election will commence at 8.00am and end at 2.00pm even as it has concluded plans to deploy a total of 36, 335 permanent and ad-hoc staff for the conduct of both the FCT elections and the Rivers state court-ordered re-run elections on Saturday 19th March.
INEC said that for the FCT elections, it would deploy 9,933 staff, while for the Rivers state re-run elections, it would will deploy a total of 26,402 staff.
It said that FCT Area Council has a total of 1,020,799 registered voters in six (6) Area Councils, adding that those areas would be manned by 6,624 Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs I, II, III); 9,375 Presiding Officers; 62 Supervising Presiding Officers (SPOs); 62 Collation Officers (CO); and 6 Returning Officers (RO) with 428 Reserves.
It said that the Rivers State re-run elections which has three Senatorial Constituencies, 12 Federal Constituencies and 22 State House of Assembly elections with a total of 2,538,535 registered voters will be manned by 17,673 Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs I, II, III); 24,573 Presiding Officers (POs); 444 Supervising Presiding Officers (SPOs); 341 Collation Officers (CO); 37 Returning Officers (RO) and 1,007 Reserves.
It said that the Rivers state re-run elections will hold in 22 out of the 23 Local Government Areas, and in a total of 4,442 Polling Units across the state. [myad]