NAME: Nkemakolam Marvelous
Class: SS2B
Subject: Government
ELECTION OFFICIALS
Election officials are persons engaged by the Electoral Commission to
directly handle the conduct and or supervision of elections. Their
engagement may be full time or ad-hoc.
Below are brief descriptions of their functions as well as specific duties:
S/N ELECTION OFFICIAL DUTIES
1 Chief Electoral Commissioner He collates the results from the states
within the federation in the presidential
election and is the Returning Officer for
that election. He is the chairman of the
Commission.
2 Senatorial district collation Collates results from all the LGAs within a
officer Senatorial District. He is also the
Senatorial District Returning Officer
3 Federal Constituency Collates results from the LGAs within a
Collation Officer federal constituency. He serves as the
federal constituency Returning Officer
4 Returning Officers Collates and declares the scores of the
candidates and declares the winner in an
election in a particular constituency.
Decides any question arising from or
relating to unmarked ballots, rejected
ballots, declaration of scores of candidates
and the return of a candidate.
5 State Collation Officer Collates results from all LGAs within a
state in the presidential and governorship
elections. He is the Returning Officer for
the governorship election.
6 State Constituency Collation Collates results from all the RA/LGAs
Officer within a state constituency for the State
Assembly election.
7 LGA Collation Officer Collates results from the various
registration areas/ wards for the area
councils, state assembly, governorship,
national Assembly and presidential
elections.
8 Registration Area Collation Collates results from polling stations
officer. within a ward.
9 Supervisory Presiding *Supervises the arrangements for the
Officer(SPO) conduct of the poll in a cluster of the
polling stations.
*Assists in the training of the presiding
officers, poll orderlies under his
supervision.
* Ensures that all sensitive and non-
sensitive election materials are available at
the assigned polling stations in the right
quantities at the right time.
*Regularly visit the assigned polling
stations to attend to problems during the
period of the elections.
*Ensures that the results of the poll for the
assigned polling stations are delivered to
the collation officer by the presiding
officer.
*Ensure that all election materials returned
to him are submitted to the Electoral
Officer immediately after the elections.
*Liaise with the security agents to ensure
maintenance of law and order within the
assigned polling stations
10 Presiding Officer *Takes charge of all proceedings at the
polling station on the election day. *Takes
delivery of and inspect all materials for the
election from the SPO. *Be at the polling
station early on election day to set up the
station. *supervises the poll orderlies
assigned to the polling station. *Stamp,
sign and issue ballot papers to eligible
voters. *Inform voters of the proper way to
mark and fold the ballot paper(s) *Post the
result of the polls using the poster EC60E
at the polling station. *Submit the result of
the poll to the RA collation officer *Return
all election materials to the SPO for
delivery to the Electoral Officer after the
election. *Report any security incident to
the security agents at the polling station
and where necessary, invite the police or
security agents to maintain order.
NAMES OF CHAIRMAN OF ELECTORAL
COMMISSION FROM 1959 TILL DATE
1. Eyo Esua (1964 - 1966)
2. Michael Ani (1976 - 1979)
3. Victor Ovie - Whiskey (1980 - 1983)
4. Eme Awa (1987 - 1989)
5. Humphrey Nwosu (1989 - 1993)
6. Okon Uya (1993 June - 1993 November)
7. Sumner Dagogo - Jack (1994 - 1998)
8. Ephraim Akpata (1998 - 2000)
9. Abel Guobadia (2000 - 2005)
10. Maurice Iwu (2005 - 2010)
11. Attahiru Jega (2010 - 2015)
12. Mahmood Yakubu (2015 - Present)
