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Briefing correspondents after the NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo, Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo State said the Council agreed that the states would buy the machines, but requested that INEC should give them a “discount of 25 per cent for the old machines and 10 per cent for the new ones

The position of the commission was premised on the ruling by the Court of Appeal staying the execution of the judgment of the Enugu High Court that had earlier sacked Umeh

This pledge was made by the American envoy to Nigeria, Ambassador Terence P. McCulley, when he visited INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Friday

The suit, with No FHC/ABJ/CS/224/2013, is seeking to compel INEC to register it as a political party

Jega, who spoke on Saturday in Kaduna, Kaduna State, said none of the three political associations that have approached it for registration with the acronym APC has been considered

Femi Ogunbayode, the FCT Police Commissioner, assured residents that enough security personnel would be deployed to ensure law and order and a hitch-free election

But the unveiling of the APC’s logo, constitution and evidence of payment for registration as a political party with INEC may have jeopardized the merger party’s chances of being registered as a political party

In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it is disturbing that the ruling party in Africa’s largest democracy can exhibit such ignorance or mischief, when the legal requirements for a merger are well spelt out in the Electoral Act

The Head of Abuja Operation Office of the National emergency Management Agency, Ishaya Chonoko, confirmed the incident

One of such things Okechukwu urged Jega to pay attention to is the implementation of the recommendations of the Justice Mohammed Uwais-led Electoral Reform Committee

A statement on Friday by the Secretary of the commission, Abdullahi Kaugama, said INEC de-registered the parties based on the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended)

Jega, who spoke on Wednesday, said the series of staggered elections in the country resulted from court judgments, which affected tenures of some governors and not as a result of the choice of the commission

Jega said those prosecuted were those arrested in connection with offenses committed in relations to the voter registration and general election of 2011

The memo for the revision of the contract sum for the DDC machines, to be presented by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, if approved, will see Nigeria shelling out $3,750,760 as additional cost for Value Added Tax for the importation that was done for the 2011 general election