2023 post-election review: INEC chairman meets with collation, returning Officers

<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday met with collation and returning Officers as it continues to review the 2023 general elections conducted in Nigeria.</p>, <p>INEC officials met for the first time on Wednesday to review the elections after which the electoral body in a tweet disclosed that the meeting will last for the next two weeks.</p>, <p>The meeting continued on Friday as the INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, met with collation and returning Officers at Ladi Kwali hall of the Abuja Continental Hotel.</p>, <p>“You may recall that on 4th July 2023, we met with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs). Thereafter, the RECs met in the various States of the federation with our regular staff and ad hoc officials, including those who presided over the elections at polling unit level,” Yakubu said in his address to participants.</p>, <p>“Two days ago, we held yet another meeting with our Electoral Officers (EOs) and the leadership of the land and maritime workers’ unions who were engaged to provide logistic support for the movement of personnel and materials.</p>, <p>“Today, we are meeting with yet another important category of election officials i.e. the Collation Officers. Present here today are the 37 State Collation Officers for the Presidential Election (SCOPEs).</p>, <p>“Many of you also doubled as Returning Officers for the 28 Governorship elections. For legislative elections, we invited, across the six geo-political zones of the country, the Senatorial District Collation Officers who also doubled as Returning Officers for senatorial elections.”</p>, <p>The INEC chairman said that it is practically unmanageable to invite all the collation and returning officers for 1,462 federal and state constituencies made up of 109 Senatorial Districts as well as 360 Federal and 993 State Houses Assembly constituencies.</p>, <p>As a result, the electoral Commission focused on the Senatorial Districts since they are bigger and cut across the other constituencies.</p>, <p>He said that th