The Independent National Electoral Commission is set to deploy a real-time election readiness tracker to monitor preparations for the 2027 general elections across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The tracker, which will give INEC’s leadership instant access to updates on logistics, recruitment and training of ad hoc staff, technology and other election preparations, is part of efforts to prevent last-minute operational failures ahead of the polls.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, disclosed this on Monday in Lagos at a two-day strategic operational workshop for administrative secretaries.
“The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to roll out a first-of-its-kind, real-time readiness tracker that will allow the Commission to monitor election preparations across all 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory instantly, as the national voter register approaches the historic 100 million mark ahead of the 2027 General Election,” a statement signed by the commission’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mrs Victoria Eta-Messi, on Monday, partly read.
According to the statement, the workshop will produce a standardised, Excel-based Administrative Secretary Master Operational Tracker Template, which will be linked to the commission’s Election Monitoring and Support Centre dashboard and Election Project Plan.
Amupitan said INEC had historically lacked a dedicated and uniform mechanism for monitoring the operational responsibilities of administrative secretaries across the country.
He said the new system would change that by giving the Resident Electoral Commissioners, supervising national commissioners, the Secretary to the Commission and the headquarters “instant visibility” into the state of preparations.
