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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

The commissioner, who gave the warning on Tuesday in Jos in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, said that such campaigns violated the electoral law

He said that the card would replace the temporary voter card issued during the 2011 general election

According to a statement on Sunday by Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, the commencement of campaign in violation of the electoral law was capable of heating up the polity

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

Arguing for his position, Okonkwo said by delisting the party, the commission had challenged the jurisdiction of the court in a case pending before it in which NAP was a party at the time of the delisting

NAN recalls that in 2012, the Federal Executive Council approved N2.6 billion for the printing of first batch of 40 million cards out of the 75 million permanent voters’ cards needed in the country for general elections

It is therefore with great pleasure and honour that I, on behalf of the Commission, welcome His Excellency the Senate President, the Rt. Hon. Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman Senate Committee on INEC, Chairman and Deputy Chairman House Committee on Electoral Matters, our international experts on delimitation, and specialists from the academia and other collaborating agencies, to this Retreat

The Action Congress of Nigeria, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance and the Congress for Progressive Change are in the process of merging to form the APC

According to the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, who briefed correspondents after the FEC meeting on Wednesday, INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, told Council that the “idea of having a national ID card and then having separate voters cards will simply be duplication and waste of resources

Specifically, INEC said APC was yet to provide it with the names and addresses of its national officers as stipulated in the conditions for registration