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President Jonathan, wife arrive polling unit, cast vote.
 
From: Agency Report
Sat, 25 Feb 2023   ||   Nigeria,
 


Former President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived at his Polling Unit 39, Ward 13 at Otueke, Bayelsa State on Saturday.
Jonathan arrived in the company of his wife, former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan to exercise their civic rights.
He lauded the security agents, the media and the electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and others who have made the conduct of elections peacefull.
The number of registered voters released by the electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the 2023 general elections are 93,468,008. While 87,209,007 people have collected their Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, 6,259,229 PVCs remain uncollected.
Already, the Police have deployed 310,973 personnel across the over 176,000 polling units in the country for the elections.
Specifically, there are 176,846 polling units but elections would only take place in 176,606 as 240 of the total figure have no registered voters according to the INEC.

 

 

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