The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is to recruit more than sixteen thousand ad-hoc staff for the Kogi governorship election holding on November 16th. Read This: Kogi/Bayelsa Elections: INEC Rejects 14 Invalid Nominations, As 19 Parties Withdraw INEC FederalCommissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoyeannounced this at a sensitisation programme at the Federal College ofEducation, Okene, Kogi state. He said the ad-hoc staff will work as pollingclerks, presiding officers, assistant presiding officers among others. Okoyeexplained that the commission had created about three thousand five hundredvoting points for the state’s over one million registered voters. He said thatall non-sensitive materials for the election were already in the state, whilethe sensitive ones will arrive two weeks to the election. Alsospeaking, INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzi ,advised the students against being used as political thugs.