•Names of party candidates, voter register out Thursday
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is expected to publish the list of nominated candidates on Thursday.
Also to be published is the official register of voters for the election on November 26.
The publication, according to the electoral body, is in compliance with the relevant sections of the electoral law.
Section 34 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) provides that INEC should publish the list of nominated candidates by parties at least 30 days before the day of an election.
Similarly, Section 20 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) provides that the Commission should publish the official register of voters for an election, not less than 30 days before the election.
In the same vein, INEC is expected to deploy 16,723 personnel for the election.
Ondo State is made up of 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 Returning Officer, 18 Local Government Collation Officers, 203 Registration Area Collation Officers, 301 Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPOs), 3,010 Presiding Officers (POs), and 11, 103 Assistant 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.