INEC Redistributes Voters To 815 Polling Units Across 28 LGs In Oyo

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Oyo State has said it has successfully migrated voters from most populated units to 815 less populated polling units across 28 local government areas of the State

The Hon. Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State Dr. Rahmon Adeniran Tella disclosed this on Thursday while briefing newsmen on the Commission’s preparation ahead of the forthcoming general elections

Adeniran explained that the development will prevent congestion that makes voting cumbersome on election day adding that that migrated voters from the populated to less populated polling units was carried out in order to make up to the threshold of 750 voters per polling unit putting into consideration their proximity from one another on election day.

According to him, polling units with the migrated voters had already been pasted in all the affected 28 local government areas comprising the 815 polling units for them to see and be informed ahead of polls adding that the exercise was also carried out in consultation with all the stateholders in the electioneering process

“Closely related in the distribution of voters is the identification of polling units which was discovered in the in the recently conducted mock accreditation exercise carried out in the selected LGAs using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), it is indeed clear that some voters could not easily identify their polling units, this should not happen on election day , hence the pasting of affected polling units with migrated voters.”he said

While calling on eligible voters to
come out to cast their votes with their permanent voters card on election days, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state said the Commission will soon come up with an update on the total number of registered voters for the coming elections including the total number of collected and uncollected PVCs in the state .

See list of affected polling units bellow

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