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Inauguration of two Ad-hoc Committees to drive the important components of the electoral process in the 2019 General elections.
I. Electoral Logistics Committee responsible for Co-ordinating of logistics
2. National Collation Centre
#NigeriaDecides2019

1) Today, the Commission is taking another step in our determination to ensureseamless preparations for the 2019 General Elections. As we move closer to theelections, the Commission has decided to set up 2 ad-hoc Committees todrive important components of the electoral process.

2) The first Committee is responsible for electoral logistics. The Commission is aware that the conduct of a General Election is the biggest and most complex logistics operation a nation can undertake.

3) Sensitive & non-sensitive materials procured by INEC must be delivered to almost 200,000 locations nationwide, ranging from the polling units to the various Ward, LGA, State & the National collation centres for the 1,558 constituencies into which elections will be conducted.

4) At the end of the elections, sensitive materials will be retrieved from the same locations.

5) The same process will be repeated for each of the 2 phases of the 2019 General Elections, namely the Presidential & National Assembly elections holding on 16th February & the Governorship, State Assembly & Area Council election in the Federal Capital Territory on 2nd March

6) For the 2019 General Elections, the Electoral Logistics Committee will be responsible for coordinating logistics support as well as the clearance and transportation of election materials to various locations nationwide.

7) The Committee includes relevant security agencies whose roles are clearly defined in Section 29(3) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

8) The second ad hoc committee, which is entirely internal to the Commission, shall be responsible for the national collation centre from where results of the Presidential election will be announced.

9) As was the case in 2015, the Commission will use the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja. Already, the management of the ICC has approved the Commission’s request to once again use the venue in 2019.

10) It will serve as the secretariat for collation of results and venue for briefing of international observers and the media. It will also be accessible to agents of the seventy-three (73) political parties fielding candidates in the presidential election.

11) Facilities such as power, access to the internet, live transmission for national and international media as well as accreditation for access to the ICC and security of the venue shall be handled by the Committee.