Ballot papers for 2023 election will be printed in Nigeria — INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 430 million ballot papers that would be used in the 2023 election would be printed in Nigeria.

This is was against the usual practice of INEC where ballot papers are printed abroad.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, speaking on Saturday at a symposium tagged “The Electorate: A Conversation on Elections in Nigeria”, organized at the Shehu Musa Yar Adua Centre, Abuja said the preference of the commission had always been to print the sensitive materials within the country.

“Conducting elections in Nigeria is like conducting election in the whole of West Africa.

“Sometimes, because of the shortness of time between completion of primaries and nomination of candidates for elections, for obvious reasons the commission had to print some sensitive materials outside the country, not all.

“This time around, we have time and we would be able to patronise our local printers.”