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Election Officials

Election officials are persons engaged to directly handle and supervise elections. Their duties range from collating results at various levels to directly overseeing polling stations. Key officials include the Chief Electoral Commissioner, Returning Officers, Collation Officers at the Registration Area, Local Government Area, State Constituency, Federal Constituency, Senatorial District, State and National levels. Presiding Officers directly manage proceedings at polling stations on election day, while Supervisory Presiding Officers oversee clusters of polling stations.

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Election Officials

Election officials are persons engaged to directly handle and supervise elections. Their duties range from collating results at various levels to directly overseeing polling stations. Key officials include the Chief Electoral Commissioner, Returning Officers, Collation Officers at the Registration Area, Local Government Area, State Constituency, Federal Constituency, Senatorial District, State and National levels. Presiding Officers directly manage proceedings at polling stations on election day, while Supervisory Presiding Officers oversee clusters of polling stations.

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ELECTION OFFICIALS

Election officials are persons engaged by the Electoral Commission to directly handle the conduct and or
supervision of elections.

Their engagement may be full time or ad-hoc.

Below are brief descriptions of their functions as well as specific duties:

S/N ELECTION OFFICIAL DUTIES

1. Chief Electoral He collates the results from the states within the federation in the
Commissioner presidential election and is the Returning Officer for that election. He
is the chairman of the Commission.

2. Senatorial district Collates results from all the LGAs within a Senatorial District. He is
collation officer also the Senatorial District Returning Officer

3. Federal Constituency Collates results from the LGAs within a federal constituency. He
Collation Officer serves as the federal constituency Returning Officer

4. Returning Officers Collates and declares the scores of the candidates and declares the
winner in an election in a particular constituency.

Decides any question arising from or relating to unmarked ballots,


rejected ballots, declaration of scores of candidates and the return of
a candidate.
5. State Collation Officer Collates results from all LGAs within a state in the presidential and
governorship elections. He is the Returning Officer for the
governorship election.

6. State Constituency Collates results from all the RA/LGAs within a state constituency for
Collation Officer the State Assembly election.

7. LGA Collation Officer Collates results from the various registration areas/ wards for the
area councils, state assembly, governorship, national Assembly and
presidential elections.

8. Registration Area Collates results from polling stations within a ward.


Collation officer.

9. Supervisory Presiding *Supervises the arrangements for the conduct of the poll in a cluster
Officer(SPO) of the polling stations.

*Assists in the training of the presiding officers, poll orderlies under


his supervision.

* Ensures that all sensitive and non-sensitive election materials are


available at the assigned polling stations in the right quantities at the
right time.

*Regularly visit the assigned polling stations to attend to problems


during the period of the elections.
*Ensures that the results of the poll for the assigned polling stations
are delivered to the collation officer by the presiding officer.

*Ensure that all election materials returned to him are submitted to


the Electoral Officer immediately after the elections.

*Liaise with the security agents to ensure maintenance of law and


order within the assigned polling stations

10. Presiding Officer *Takes charge of all proceedings at the polling station on the
election day.

*Takes delivery of and inspect all materials for the election from the
SPO.

*Be at the polling station early on election day to set up the station.

*supervises the poll orderlies assigned to the polling station.

*Stamp, sign and issue ballot papers to eligible voters.

*Inform voters of the proper way to mark and fold the ballot
paper(s)

*Post the result of the polls using the poster EC60E at the polling
station.

*Submit the result of the poll to the RA collation officer


*Return all election materials to the SPO for delivery to the Electoral
Officer after the election.

*Report any security incident to the security agents at the polling


station and where necessary, invite the police or security agents to
maintain order.

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