The AKISIEC boss, Elder Aniedi Ikoiwak disclosed this on Sunday July 26, 2020 in his office in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital.
According to him, the extant law enabled states electoral bodies to create new wards in every ten years, saying that for over twenty-four years, no new wards in Akwa Ibom State has been created.
The Commission in a statement release and signed by the AKISIEC chairman, Elder Aniedi Ikoiwak, the state electoral body also extended political parties nomination earlier scheduled for August 11 to August 26, 2020.
“Pursuant to Part II, Section 10 Subsection 2,3 and Section 12 of the Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC)Law 2007, the Akwa Ibom State Independent Electoral Commission has created/re-aligned thirty-nine (39) additional Electoral Wards, totally three hundred and sixty-eight (368) Electoral Wards in the state as per the attached. The thirty-nine (39) wards are created in all the three Senatorlal District with thirteen (13) wards per districts.This exercise will help among other things, decongest most of the collation centres in this period of Covid-19.”
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