Submission of governorship candidates to INEC closes today
The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) will today close the collection of lists of
governorship and House of Assembly candidates from the political
parties.
This is just as petitions written by some governorship aspirants who lost out during the parties primary elections are still before the petition committees set up to resolve the crises from the primaries.
The commission was mandated by the provision of Section 31 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) to collect all names of candidates standing for elective offices 60 days before the scheduled date of the election.
The section read: “Every political party shall not later than 60 days before the date appointed for a general election under the provisions of this Act, submit to the Commission in the prescribed forms the list of the candidates the party proposes to sponsor at the elections.”
INEC had in its Notice of Election stipulated Thursday, December 25 as the last day for the parties to submit names of the governorship and House of Assembly flag bearers, since their elections will hold on February 28.
But INEC last week announced shifting the deadline from Thursday 25 to Friday 26, due to the Christmas Day celebration yesterday.
The Act also tasked INEC to, within seven days of the receipt of the personal particulars of the candidate, “publish same in the constituency where the candidate intends to contest the election.”
This is just as petitions written by some governorship aspirants who lost out during the parties primary elections are still before the petition committees set up to resolve the crises from the primaries.
The commission was mandated by the provision of Section 31 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) to collect all names of candidates standing for elective offices 60 days before the scheduled date of the election.
The section read: “Every political party shall not later than 60 days before the date appointed for a general election under the provisions of this Act, submit to the Commission in the prescribed forms the list of the candidates the party proposes to sponsor at the elections.”
INEC had in its Notice of Election stipulated Thursday, December 25 as the last day for the parties to submit names of the governorship and House of Assembly flag bearers, since their elections will hold on February 28.
But INEC last week announced shifting the deadline from Thursday 25 to Friday 26, due to the Christmas Day celebration yesterday.
The Act also tasked INEC to, within seven days of the receipt of the personal particulars of the candidate, “publish same in the constituency where the candidate intends to contest the election.”
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