Jega said that all structures are being laid to effectively monitor campaign expenditure by candidates and political parties as the 2015 general election approaches
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But in a letter, which was signed by the Secretary to the Commission, A.C. Ogakwu, and addressed to the National Chairman of PPA, Chief Sam Nkire, INEC said the new name and acronym were similar in appearance and pronouncement to those of two existing registered political parties
He said: “We have their names, pictures, addresses and gradually all of them will be caught and prosecuted but we are starting with 72 persons
A statement by the Secretary to the Commission, A. C. Ogakwu, said the registration was done based on the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended)
Ada said the equipment was designed to record the total number of people that are accredited and the total votes cast at each polling unit during elections
Jega said underage registration remains a major factor militating against smooth registration in the country, adding that INEC officials were helpless in areas where such took place
Onabis stated that the registration of APC was an indication that INEC can still be trusted with conducting the next election if it does away with external influences
The APC, made up of the Action Congress of Nigeria, the All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Congress for Progressive Change has had a running battle with INEC over its move to merge and become a new political party
INEC has unwittingly let itself be caught in the web of the internecine political crossfire between the PDP and APGA
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