While reacting to the exclusion in the drafted list for main candidates for the 2023 primaries, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told some of the aggrieved politicians who are upset about the conduct of primaries to seek redress in court.
Among the politicians include the Nigerian Senate President, Ahmad Lawan and former Minister of Niger Delta affairs, Godswill Akpabio who had been listed by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as candidates for the Yobe North and Akwa Ibom north-west Senatorial Districts, respectively. But in the list published by INEC, Lawan and Akpabio were found to have been excluded.
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“In relation to the primaries for the Akwa Ibom North West and Yobe North Senatorial Districts, the Commission stands by the monitoring reports received from our state offices.
“For this reason, the Commission did not publish the particulars of any candidate for the two constituencies at variance with the State reports,” Festus Okoye, INEC spokesperson, said in a statement on Saturday.
He added that aggrieved parties should take their case to the Federal High Court “as provided in section 285 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and sections 29(5) and 84(14) of the Electoral Act, 202.”
Okoye also said INEC’s staff have been working hard to meet the deluge of requests received on the issuance of certified true copies (CTCs) of documents.
In another report, the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has captured up 10,487,972 as of 7 a.m. today.
This analysis was contained in the quarter four, week 12 update which had been released in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had also commenced a fresh voter registration session on June 28, 2021.
INEC had made confirmations that 9,455,198 Nigerians have managed to complete their registration sessions. Of the figure, 3,314,169 registered online while 6,141,029 did physical registration.
In the gender breakdown, 4,682,036 of the registrants are males, 4,773,162 are females, 71,998 are Persons With Disabilities (PWDs). Also, 6,698,446 are youths; 1,894,39 are middle age between 18 and 34 years. A total of 758,300 are the elderly between 50 to 69 years; 104,056 are 70 years and above.