The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says voters assigned to new polling units will receive text messages to know their new polling units before the February 25 and March 11, 2023 general elections. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said yesterday at a meeting with political parties held at the INEC Conference Room, Abuja, explaining that voters can locate and confirm their polling units before Election Day by sending a regular text or WhatsApp message to a dedicated telephone number. Yakubu also revealed that elections won’t hold in two hundred and forty polling units spread across twenty-eight states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) because they have no registered voters, adding that the total number of polling units in the country is now one hundred and seventy-six thousand, six hundred and six. The INEC boss revealed that INEC has compiled the register of such voters and the commission’s state offices will give it wide publicity, especially for those who may not have provided their telephone numbers during voter registration or those whose numbers may have changed.
