10,294 INEC staff for Rivers rerun elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said 10,294 staff would be deployed to Rivers State for the  re-run National Assembly and State House elections slated to hold in the oil-rich state on Saturday.
INEC made the disclosure on Tuesday in its daily bulletin. It further grouped the 10,294 staff into 14 categories.

Among the categories, INEC said, there will be three Returning Officers for the three Senatorial Districts; eight Returning Officers for Federal Constituencies and 10 Returning officers for State Constituencies .
Other categories include 23 LGA Collation Officers; 221 Registration Area (ward) Collation Officers; 57 Collation Officers (for Collation only at Registration Areas RAs); 231 Supervisory Presiding Officers; 1,840 Presiding Officers; 6,609 Assistant Presiding Officers (I, II and III); 661 Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs); 363 Reserve APOs (5 per cent) of APOs; 21 Constituency Supervisors (3 SDs; 8 FCs; 10 SCs); 24 LGA Supervisors; and 223 RA Supervisors.

The elections will take place  in  three senatorial districts; eight federal constituencies; and 10 state constituencies.

The three senatorial districts are Rivers East Senatorial District; Rivers West and Rivers South-East.
The eight federal constituencies are Akuku-Toru/Asari Toru; Degema/Bonny; Okrika/Ogu-Bolo; Etche/Omuma; Ikwere/Emohua; Khana Gokana; Eleme/Tai/Oyigbo and Opobo/Nkoro/Andoni.
The state constituencies where elections will hold are Eleme, Gokana, Asari-Toru I, Asari-Toru II, Andoni, Khana II, Etche II, Ikwere, Bonny and Degema.

Following court rulings that invalidated National Assembly and State House elections held in Rivers State during the 2015 general elections, INEC had conducted  rerun polls in the state on March 19.
But the elections were marred by violence mainly between supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, respectively led by Governor Nyesom Wike and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, thereby necessitating suspension of the exercise.

As at the time of the suspension of the elections, the exercise was at different stages, INEC said.
The elections had been concluded in some constituencies with the declaration of results and return of winners by the respective returning officers.

In some areas, collation had been concluded but no declaration of results or return had been made.
In some other areas, voting had been concluded and collation was on-going but yet to be concluded.
In some places, voting had been concluded but collation was yet to commence; and  in some other places, there was no voting at all.
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