To conduct the governorship election in Ondo State, scheduled for Saturday, November 26th 2016, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is to deploy sixteen thousand seven hundred and twenty three (16,723) personnel.
Ondo state is made up of eighteen (18)Local Government Areas, 203 Registration Areas, and 3,010 Polling Units. It has a total of 1,660,055 registered voters.
A breakdown of the 16,723 personnel to be deployed indicates that INEC would deploy one (1) Returning Officer, eighteen (18)Local Government Collation Officers, 203Registration Area Collation Officers, 301Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPOs), 3,010Presiding Officers (POs), and 11, 103Assistant Presiding Officers (I,II and III).
Others are 1,321 Assistant Presiding Officers (VP), 621 Reserve Assistant Presiding Officers, 19 Local Government Area Supervisors, and 126 Registration Area Cluster Supervisors.
