The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it will on Wednesday, commence a series of training for different categories of officers for the November 18 Anambra governorship election. The acting Director-General of The Electoral Institute, Dr Sa’ad Umar Idris said the training of Electoral Officers/ Assistant Electoral Officers (Operations) would hold from October 11 to October 13 while that of Assistant Electoral Officers (AEOs) Admin and Cluster would take place from October 16 to October 20 in Awka, the state’ s capital.
Dr Idris stated it would be done in collaboration with the International Foundation for Electoral systems.
“The purpose is to enable Electoral Officers and Assistant Electoral Officers plan effectively for elections. It is also for Electoral Officers to identify activities with timelines for a successful conduct of the election…The training is equally meant to properly positions the officers well to discharge ad-hoc staff training on polling and counting procedures effectively,” he explained.
According to him, “the expected benefits to be derived from the training include the conduct of Train of Trainers (ToT) for participation, to enable them coordinate and conduct electoral training at their Local Government Areas.”
Dr Idris said that the training of Security Personnel on electoral security best practices and knowledge of the electoral process would hold between October 25 and November 1, 2017.
“Also to be trained on election duties by the Commission include Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs), Presiding and Assistant Presiding Officers (POs/APOs) and Collation/Returning Officers,” Dr Idris stated.
He added that the Polling Officers and Assistant Polling Officers would be trained on polling and counting procedures while the Collation Officers and Returning Officers would be trained on collation and returning of results/candidates.
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