2023 General Election: INEC To Print 187 Million Ballot Papers

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced that it will produce a total of 187 million ballots for the general election of 2023, which is less than 100 days away.

Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, informed the public of this on Friday.

93,5 million ballots will be used for the presidential election on February 25, 2023, according to Okoye, who spoke at a Roundtable with Bureau Chiefs/Editors in Abuja. The remaining 93.5 million ballots would be utilized for a run-off election if there is a tie in the results.

Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) concluded the Automated Biometric Identification System on Thursday and found 2,780,756 registrations in Kano State to be invalid.

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In a meeting with representatives of the electoral stakeholder community, Zango Abdu, the new Resident Electoral Commissioner (INEC) in Kano, said that 12,298 944 Nigerians had successfully registered as new voters at the end of the process.

According to him, “The preliminary register of voters in Kano State currently stands at 5,927,565.

“It is preliminary because Section 19 (1) and (2) of the Electoral Act 2022 requires the Commission to display the hard copies of the register of voters for each registration area (Ward) and Local Government Area (and simultaneously publish the entire register on the Commission’s website) for a period of two weeks for scrutiny, claims and objections, by citizens not later than 90 days to a general election.”