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2023 ELECTIONS: INEC Will Hire 1.4 Million Workers To Train Them How To Use The BVAS Machine

The National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has started the recruitment of temporary staff to train them on how to use the BVAS.

The INEC Broadcasting Spokesperson, Festus Okoye, said this in an interview he had with him late last week, on Channels TV.

He said that there is a need to provide professional training in the use of the BVAS, so that during the elections there will not be any delay, which may cause voters to complain about their identification process using the BVAS. .

Okoye said BVAS will be provided in all 176,846 polling stations across the country.

In another study, the National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that there are still at least 1.7 million people who have not received their voter registration card, that is PVC, in Lagos State.

Reports show that as of Saturday, 5,816,528 people have received their voter registration certificate in Lagos State.

The National Electoral Commission (INEC) has already begun to complain about the slow process of receiving voter registration cards in some states, seeing as the people did not give much effort in coming to receive the card, which one can vote in Nigerian elections.

That is why last week INEC went to Cross River State, where she called the people to hurry up and collect their voter registration cards.

The commission made this call at the 'Calabar Carnival event.

In Akwa Ibom State, the commission has also complained that people are not flocking to collect their voter registration cards.

In the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), reports show that there are still 460,643 voter registration cards that have not been received from 2011 to 2022.

The reports show that from 2011 to 2019 there are 230,007 cards that have not yet been accepted.

Then those who were registered but did not receive from 2021 to 2022 up to 230,636.

In an interview on Channels Television, the INEC Media Spokesman, Festus Okoye, stressed that INEC will use the BVAS in all the 176,846 polling stations in the country.

He then said that INEC has already started the process of recruiting more than 1.4 million temporary workers who will be trained to work with the BVAS machine during the elections for the president, members of the federal parliament, governors, and the parliament. state laws.