Election observer group, Yiaga Africa, has said it will deploy 272 observers for the June 20 governorship election in Ekiti State.
The Head of Knowledge Management and Learning, Yiaga Africa, Safiya Bichi, said the 272 observers would comprise 250 stationary observers at select polling units and 22 roving ones.
Bichi, who spoke in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday during a civil society organisations and media roundtable on Ekiti State governorship election, said Yiaga Africa would observe the election process, collation and result tabulation.
According to her, the choice of the units where the observers would be stationed on election day would be determined by population.
She said, “We will have more observers stationed in more polling units in local governments with higher populations than others.
The size of the local government will determine the size of the polling units where we will station observers.
“For observation, we’re going to have two
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