The days when adhoc personnel held INEC hostage and created problems for the electoral process might soon be over. Professor Maurice Iwu made this prediction recently while presenting a public lecture. Presenting the 2008 UNN Political Science Department Public Lecture at Nsukka, expressed the hope that INEC might eventually employ only its own staff in the conduct of elections in the country. He said that the experience from the re-run elections conducted by the Commission across the country showed that the absence of adhoc electoral personnel in the re-run elections had increased the transparency and credibility of the electoral process 

The Chairman lamented the Commission’s dependence on electoral officials who are not directly employed by the Commission in election duties as one of the biggest problems it had to contend with over the years.

Professor Iwu also said that because of the nature and conditions of their appointments by the executive arm, the Resident Electoral Commissioners who conduct the elections in the states were above reproach or reprimand by the Commission, a situation which he said had its own impact on the conduct of elections  

Professor Iwu said that re-run elections had introduced elements of staggered elections in the electoral process. He said that the staggered elections were the best for this country because these enable the Commission to engage staff that were directly under its control in the delivery of transparently free and fair elections. 

INEC deploys three electoral staff at each of its over 200 thousand polling stations across the Country during general elections.