INEC recruits 7,941 ad hoc staff for Ekiti election

The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that a total of 7,941 ad-hoc staff have been engaged by INEC to help it conduct next Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State.
The Ekiti State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alh. Halilu Pai, on Saturday told a media conference in Ado-Ekiti the bulk of the ad-hoc staff are Corps members, while the rest are students of Federal tertiary institutions.
The commission engaged such a high number in order to be able to attend to a total of 766,132 persons that were duly registered as voters in the state.
 out of the figure, 2,195 will work as Presiding Officers while 5,605 will work as Assistant Presiding Officers.
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of the ad-hoc staff would be deployed in the 177 electoral wards as well as the 16 collation centres at the local government headquarters while the rest would man affairs at the state capital, Ado-Ekiti.
The INEC Commissioner said in order to avoid cases of delayed payment to ad-hoc staff in such exercise, money meant for those engaged had already been credited into the account of Ekiti State office of NYSC.
He said each Corps member would receive a sum of N11,000, made up of N7,000 as honorarium and N4,000 as basic transport fare.
Pai also disclosed that his men had been distributed to the 177 INEC area offices across the state for effective distribution of permanent voter cards to intending voters.