The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission had received no fewer than nine thousand, seven hundred and seventy-seven requests for additional polling units across the country.
The INEC Chairman said this during a sensitisation visit on the creation of additional polling units, to the Arewa Consultative Forum, in Kaduna .
He recalled that the commission created one hundred and nineteen thousand, nine hundred and seventy-three polling units in 1996, noting that for twenty years it had yet to create additional polling units.
According to him, the growing demand by Nigerians for the creation of additional polling units was on the rise.
