The Independent National Electoral Commission has said its portal for recruitment of ad-hoc staff for the 2023 general elections would be opened from September 14.
The commission disclosed this in a letter signed by A.T Yusuf, for the INEC Secretary, on Wednesday.
Yusuf said the portal would be closed on December 14, 2022 by 8:00pm.
According to the letter, the exercise, which will be launched through INECPRES, will be opened to others categories of ad-hoc staff except collation/returning officers.
The letter addressed to all Resident Electoral Commissioners, requested the cooperation of all administrative secretaries, head of departments, among others, to attain the required number of ad-hoc staff per state.
“To achieve the required number of ad-hoc staff per states, it is important that robust engagement/sensitisation by the Admin. Secs HOD EOPS/EOs & AEOS under the leadership of the RECS is commenced with the Authorities of Federal, State Tertiary Institutions and the NYSC offices (state/ government levels),” it partly read.
He also said that the INECPRES is available via two links located on the INEC website: www.inecnigeria.org. While one is link for the Mobile App, the other leads to the web portal.
Mr Yakubu disclosed that the National Assembly had set out N305 billion for the conduct of the elections.