2019: INEC To Recruit One Million ad hoc Workers

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu,has informed the Senate Committee on INEC that the commission would recruit about one million ad hoc members of staff for the conduct of the 2019 general elections. The INEC chaieman, at the interactive session with the federal lawamkers disclosed that the commission was planning to make the five categories of disfranchised Nigerians participate in the 2019 general elections. According to him, the ad hoc workers to be deployed for the polls, which will begin in 484 days, will be about 300 higher than the 700 engaged for the 2015 general elections.