In previous elections, the RECs had been saddled with the task of appointing the collation officers and the returning officers. Federal Constituency and Senatorial) and all Returning Officers are to be recruited and posted by the headquarters. One of them said, “It is not the duty of the headquarters to appoint returning officers and collation officers; that has never been the practice. We want to know who are the returning officers and the collation officers. “Each of those to be Returning Officers and Collation Officers will not know their posting until a day to the elections.

Source: Punch February 02, 2019 23:48 UTC