The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has confirmed that 18 registered political parties presenting candidates for the presidential election, have submitted a total of 1,574,301 polling units agents across the nation.
The commission said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has the highest number of polling units agents with 176,588.
The main opposition party is followed by the All Progressives Congress, APC, with 176,233, the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has 176,200 and Labour Party with 134,874.
The electoral umpire also said that the political parties nominated a total 68,057 collation agents and 27 agents for the National Collation Centre.
Nigeria has 176,846 polling units but elections would only take place in 176,606 as 240 of the total figure have no registered voters according to INEC.
In terms of state, Kano has the highest number of party polling unit agents – 145,393 from three political parties of APC, PDP and NNPP; followed by Lagos with a combined 98,646 from the three political parties; and Rivers with a combined 79,795.
