{"id":353302,"date":"2025-01-22T16:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=353302"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:19:03","slug":"inec-fixes-date-for-fct-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/01\/22\/inec-fixes-date-for-fct-council-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC fixes date for FCT council elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>Voting will take place in all the designated Polling Units across the 68 constituencies to elect the six Area Council Chairmen and 62 Councilors<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission has stated that the federal capital territory area council elections will be held on February 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Wednesday during a consultative meeting with political parties in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yakubu, the last area council election in the FCT was held on February 12, 2022, adding that the tenure of the current chairmen and councillors will end next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, the commission has approved that the 2026 area council election in FCT will be held on Saturday 21st February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoting will take place in all the designated Polling Units across the 68 constituencies to elect the six Area Council Chairmen and 62 Councilors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn compliance with the mandatory legal requirements, the notice for the election will be published next month i.e. 26th February 2025. Party primaries will be held from 9th \u2013 30th June 2025. The candidate nomination portal will open from 9.00am on 21st July 2025 to 6.00pm on 11th August 2025,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu said the final list of candidates will be published on September 22, 2025, adding that campaigns will commence on September 24 and end at midnight on February 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe detailed timetable and schedule of activities for the election as well as the list of constituencies and type of elections in the FCT will be uploaded to our website before the end of this meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHard copies of the two documents have been included in your folders for this meeting. For your guidance, we are also including the hard copies of the regulation and guidelines for political parties 2022 in your folders while the softcopy is already available from our website www.inecnigeria.org.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn due course, the commission will come up with plans for other routine activities such as the resumption of nationwide Continuous Voter registration and the conduct of outstanding bye-elections,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The INEC chairman said regarding the Anambra State governorship election to be held on November 8, 2025, the next activity is the conduct of primaries by political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay I remind leaders of political parties that primaries for the nomination of candidates for the Anambra State Governorship election begin in the next two months, that is, 20th March to 10th April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may similarly recall that at our last regular meeting, we agreed that you would forward your schedule of activities for the election to the commission to enable us to work together and plan better for the deployment of personnel and resources for the monitoring of your party primaries and campaign activities, to avoid the last-minute rush with the attendant inability to meet deadlines and unnecessarily dissipate our energy and lean resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, only a few parties are in compliance. I urge those that have not done so to submit the details by the end of this week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting will take place in all the designated Polling Units across the 68 constituencies to elect the six Area Council Chairmen and 62 Councilors The Independent National Electoral Commission has stated that the federal capital territory area council elections will be held on February 21, 2026. 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