Section 3: Division into wards and boundaries thereof.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the National Electoral Commission (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the Commission") shall divide each Local Government Area into such number of wards, not being more than 20, as the circumstances of each Local Government Area may require.
(2) The boundaries of each ward shall be such that the number of inhabitants thereof is as nearly equal to the population quota as is reasonably practicable.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, the number of inhabitants of a Local Government Area or any part thereof shall be ascertained by reference to the 1963 population census of Nigeria.
(4) The Commission shall review the division of every Local Government Area into wards at intervals of not less than 10 years and may alter such wards in accordance with the provisions of section 3 (1) of this Act to such extent as it may consider desirable in the light of the review.