Sentences with phrase «electoral body»

The coalition hinged their decision on the alleged violation of the Constitution and Electoral Act by the state electoral body in the process leading to the polls.

Saraki, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu, gave the charge when the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who is also the President of ECONEC, led other members of the sub-regional electoral body on a visit to the leadership of the Senate in Abuja.

Yakubu said there was a need for state electoral bodies to work closely with INEC to ensure that local government elections are free, fair and credible.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said after approving the appointments said «We hope they contribute and continue to sustain free and credible elections in Nigeria by ensuring that the practices of the national electoral body in this country meet global standards.»

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

We strengthened INEC because without a strong and independent electoral body you can not conduct a free and fair election.

«It is in a view to bring an end to all these tradition of electoral manipulation that, we of the SPN will continue to canvass for the democratisation of state and national electoral bodies whose members will comprise of the elected representatives of trade unions, youth and professional organisations, trade and artisan associations including the community associations like residents association.

The aggrieved candidate said the NUT electoral body was about starting the election when some of his supporters had queried the rationale behind the choosing of the delegates.

The report was submitted to the EC last Friday, sources close to the Charlotte Osei - led electoral body hinted Starr News.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted a late - night ex-parte order targeted at persuading the Chairman of the Nigerian electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega to...

When asked what should happen next having discredited the Kano State local government election, the INEC boss said the commission lacked the constitutional power to investigate any state electoral body since they are autonomous.

While saying that Ibrahim and Eyitayo Jegede were not parties to the suit, the governor said the national electoral body initially took the right decision by making it clear that it was not state or zonal executives that were empowered by the Electoral Act to conduct elections.

The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has revealed the lesson Nigeria's top electoral body learnt from the ongoing election in Liberia.

Yakubu said while it could not be established if children actually voted in the election, he could confirm that the voter register which INEC gave to the Kano electoral body for undertaking the election was not completely used.

«The two leaders however engaged the IEBC [Kenya's electoral body] and reported back to observers and the international media the IEBC had rejected the allegations by Raila & Co..

ELECTORAL bodies in West and Southern African countries have made a passionate plea to the private sector to contribute to the funding of elections because of the increasing cost of organising them, which they say government alone can no longer shoulder.

NAN recalls that, fire on Saturday razed the two - storey building of Kaduna state electoral body, few weeks before the local government election in the state.

According to the national electoral body, it has adequately tested and ensured all the devices deployed are working efficiently.

Melaye had on June 23 sued the INEC seeking an order restraining the electoral body from conducting any referendum aimed at recalling him.

I reformed the electoral system by strengthening the electoral body, INEC, making it possible for it to seamlessly conduct the 2011 and 2015 elections.

Ghana's biggest opposition party — New Patriotic Party — has ordered the Electoral Commission (EC), to stop, forthwith, all internal auditing processes rolled out by the electoral body towards cleaning up the 2012 register of voters ahead of the November elections.

The governor said that INEC, will be on ground to observe, stressing that the electoral body was not coming to supervise the exercise.

The timetable, in a statement by the INEC Secretary, Mrs Augusta Ogakwu, issued on behalf of the electoral body, will on August 19, conduct a verification of signatures of petitioners demanding the recall, which were submitted to the commission in all the polling units in the constituency.

The political approach: The electoral body put all the tools to make possible the vote but the one who cheer people to participate is the politicians.

The electoral approach: The electoral body often make some advertising, promoting the use of vote, specially in young democracies.

The EC has been embroiled in suits following its disqualification of 12 presidential aspirants after they had filed their nominations with the electoral body.

This is when NGOs such as International IDEA, UN Political Office (in their Electoral Department) and other organizations have an important role helping with electoral assistance through the electoral body.

According to the party, although the EC per PNDC Laws 284 and 285 has the discretionary powers to charge filing fees for presidential and parliamentary elections, the electoral body needed a statutory instrument and not a constitutional instrument to exercise those discretionary powers.

They also accused her of breaching public procurement regulations and disregarding administrative procedures in her management of the electoral body; claims she has rubbished.

He acknowledged the large following the electoral body enjoys on Facebook, which he said is the largest among election management bodies in Africa, and underscored its potentials for engaging citizens, disseminating information and dispelling fake news for peaceful elections.

According to an IEC spokesman, President Hamid Karzai and General David Petraeus, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, reviewed the proposed list of polling stations on Saturday, which led to the electoral body removing an additional 100 stations that the security forces had said were safe.

On whether the APC would have a brighter chance with Buhari as its candidate, Oshoma said so much would depend on the electoral body — the Independent National Electoral Commission.

But the spokesman for the INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the electoral body was guided by the law and took decisions based on the provisions of that law.

He said, «It depends on the transparency in the electoral body.

If there are transparency and accountability on the part of the electoral body, I think it will not be fair for the party to take Mr. President as its sole candidate.

The Senate threatened to suspend its plenary if the electoral body failed to meet the deadline, pointing out that the state had remained without representation in the national assembly for a long period.

The electoral body said opposition leader, Mr Charles Brumskine, of the Liberty Party finished third with 149,495 votes constituting 9.6 per cent.

The five - member committee set up by the electoral commission to look into concerns over the credibility of the voters» register has submitted its report to the electoral body, Starr News has learnt.

The mischief embarked upon by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to discredit the Electoral Commission (EC), has backfired in the party's stronghold of Ashanti Region, with many people disenfranchised from voting in the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections by the Supreme Court decision in the Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako case, against the electoral body.

Wada described as «specious» INEC's argument that APC's right to substitution was sustained by the electoral act, saying the electoral body should know that it is for the court, not the commission, to determine which course of action is effective or not.

According to the electoral body, candidates contesting the results must follow the right procedure.

He called on state governments to make their electoral bodies to work for the benefit of all.

The electoral body has since requested 7.9 million U.S. dollars to fund the extended registration period.

Akomea who spoke to Asempa FM on Monday, said the party will expose the EC in two or three days over the manner the electoral body handled the NPP's request for a new register.

An Accra Circuit court issued an order Tuesday to prevent the Let My Vote Count Alliance, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) and the Movement for Change from demonstrating at the premises of the electoral body.

Wafula Chekubati, chair of Kenya's electoral body, said only Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga will be on the ballot.

The state electoral body had also said it will announce results of the July 22 local council polls at ward collation centres.

19.10: These results below have not been confirmed by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), the electoral body in charge of the election, and at such results here can change at any time.

The INEC chairman said the anti-graft agency should also help the electoral body to tackle the issue of bribing voters at polling units.