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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that it would not jettison\u00a0 the reports submitted by its staff on the Yobe North senatorial\u00a0 and Akwa-Ibom North West districts primaries<\/p>\n

Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, made the declaration at the weekend in a statement.<\/p>\n

The INEC<\/a> stance was on the heels of allegations of compromise levelled against the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa-Ibom, Mike Igini by the APC South-South leadership.<\/p>\n

Further checks revealed that INEC also declared vacant the seat for Yobe North senatorial district currently occupied by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan.<\/p>\n

Okoye in the statement noted that by virtue of provisions of the Nigerian Constitution, INEC reserves the mandate\u00a0to \u201cmonitor the organization and operation of political parties, including their finances, conventions, congresses and party primaries. In line with its constitutional and legal obligations, the Commission deployed monitors to the various constituencies and received reports of such exercise. 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 personal particulars of any candidate for the two constituencies at variance with the State reports. Right now, the Commission is funtus officio in the two cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cAggrieved parties are at liberty to approach the Federal High Court and seek redress 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, 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement further reads in part:\u201d On the issuance of Certified True Copies (CTCs) of documents, staff of the Commission have been working hard, including weekends, to meet the deluge of requests received. As at Friday 8th July 2022, the Commission has processed 433 requests involving the certification of One million, Six Hundred and Sixty-Two Thousand, Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six (1,662,776) pages of documents. Many of them are awaiting collection at the INEC Headquarters by some of the same applicants complaining of delay in the issuance of the CTCs.<\/p>\n

\u201cSection 29 (4) of the Electoral Act provides that any person may apply to the Commission for a copy of nomination form, affidavit, and any other document submitted by a candidate at an election and the Commission shall, upon payment of a prescribed fee, issue such person with a certified copy of the document within 14 days. Persons applying for CTC of documents should endeavour to act timely and within the ambit of the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Commission will continue to uphold the integrity of the electoral process, including the deepening of the deployment of technology to enhance the credibility of elections. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that it would not jettison\u00a0 the reports submitted by its staff on the Yobe North senatorial\u00a0 and Akwa-Ibom North West districts primaries Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, made the declaration at the weekend in a statement. 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