The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will require about 1.4 million ad-hoc personnel for the 2027 general elections, to be deployed across more than 176,000 polling units nationwide.

INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, disclosed this during a meeting with a Pre-Election Assessment Mission of the International Republican Institute (IRI) in Abuja.

Amupitan said the scale of the 2027 elections would require early planning and expanded administrative capacity.

He said recent off-cycle elections had also allow the commission to test its technology, logistics and security arrangements ahead of the 2027 polls.

According to him, the BVAS and IReV systems have shown improved reliability, with recent elections recording result-upload rates of more than 98 per cent.

INEC also plans to deploy the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) to identify and remove duplicate voter records.

The commission said it would provide additional measures to support the participation of persons with disabilities, pregnant women, nursing mothers and elderly voters.

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