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Akoma said in the statement: “The Commission has continued to rely on court rulings which in anyway do not impinge on its functions to shy away from its constitutional roles in the matter concerning APGA

The electoral body, the party said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Bernard Akoma, rather than step out boldly to perform its constitutional functions of monitoring internal democratic mechanisms of political parties, has pretended in the case of APGA and instead decided to take side with a faction of the party in order to keep the party in perpetual crisis

In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party
said in spite of recent media reports concerning the antics of some negative forces within INEC over APC’s registration, the emerging party’s leadership has no doubt that in the end, the electoral body will do what is right in accordance with the law

“INEC on Thursday, July 18, 2013, met with national and Anambra State
leaders of registered political parties to brief them on preparations
towards the governorship election. The meeting provided an opportunity to give the stakeholders up-to-date information on the data of voters for Anambra State, the status and spread of the polling units, and the action plan for voter verification and CVR leading up to the governorship election

In a statement personally signed by Chief Nkire, the party said it
would amount to jumping the gun if members went ahead to campaign
without the new certificate

Jega said: “Our preparations for the elections include doing continuous voters’ registration from August 19 to August 25 in order to update the register as required by law before the elections

She noted that good and accessible roads would enable INEC officials
to get to all communities for the voter registration and the election
in 2015

The team held a closed door meeting with the interim APC officials.
Addressing newsmen after the meeting, the Interim National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande, said its members had proved to INEC that they existed as gentlemen with befitting accommodation

She had assumed that position in April 2013, after serving as the Head of Unit/Director, Alternative Disputes Resolution since May 2009

According to the statement, the shift in the date is to allow the political parties to comply with Section 87(1) of the Electoral Act 2010, as amended

Maku, said the first batch of 17, 000 is expected to be delivered within six months while the remaining two batches will follow at a later date. He explained further that the card readers are meant to stop incident of double voting and to detect fake voter’s cards

“That way, it will be easier for us to carry out our jobs fairly.”
Ogunmola promised that the commission would carry everybody along and that it could not do the work alone

“There is need to tie funding to particular programmes to avoid the trend where individuals establish political parties to attract funding for personal use

Abdulkadir, who spoke at the unveiling of a six-year strategic plan for INEC, said for now, there would be no e-voting in the electoral process

He recalled that the last council election was conducted in the state in 1999 while attempts were made to organise the polls in 2001, 2004 and 2005 but did not hold for security reasons

He said the commission had taken delivery of the latest technology that would be used to eliminate multiple voting and registration by 2015

Eze said that adequate preparations were made for the conduct of the election in 2010 and 2011 when he held sway but that all were aborted

The statement by Udeogaranya reads: “The non-release of Ananmbra State gubernatorial election timetable amounts to political negligence and playing waiting game in order to accommodate some political interests before going public with the Anambra State gubernatorial election timetable

Fashakin promised that APC would increase the number of its national
officers earlier submitted to INEC, to facilitate the registration of
the association

It was gathered that the national officers decided to resign to avoid embarrassment when NEC meets to consider the INEC letter, which states that elections of all national officers must be regularized