The Borno state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Samuel Usman, said this on Friday, March 27, while addressing journalists on the agency’s preparation for the elections.
The
commissioner said most of the IDPs who did not register in camps, but
chose to stay with their relatives will also be voting at designated
voting centres allocated for their local government areas.
“We
have a total number of 1, 838, 514 registered voters in Borno state.
And we have received 1,763, 860 PVCs, out of which 1, 417, 450 have been
distributed, and we have over 18, 000 PVCs that has not been delivered
to the state yet,” Usman said.
He further explained that; “out
of the registered voters, a total of 70, 485 persons would be voting in
the camps as IDPs that were displaced from 16 local government areas of
Borno state.
"On the level of
preparedness, all sensitive election materials were released to the
state INEC by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since Wednesday, March
25, and most of which has since been deployed to their various electoral
areas within and outside the state capital.”
At
least 16 of 27 local government areas in the state were displaced by
Boko Haram terrorists from their communities. This forced residents to
flee into the state capital. A large number of them are refugees outside
the borders of Nigeria.
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