Sentences with phrase «electoral body on»

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.

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

Any electoral official of a local authority (as defined in section 5 of the Local Electoral Act 2001) may, on payment of the prescribed fee, and in accordance with regulations made under this Act, obtain from the Electoral Commission a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing specified information, for the purpose of conducting an election for any body, where the Electoral Commission is satisfied that --

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 CommissioOn 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 Commissioon 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 meeting, according to Mr. Aggrey - Fynn, is to enable the members take decisions on the operations of the electoral management body.

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

The electoral regulatory body after an IPAC meeting on Tuesday, said the biometric verification will still run, but the manual proof will be done for «people whose particulars appear on the voters register but who may be rejected by the biometric verification devices.»

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

Second preferences could be crucial as few expect any one candidate to secure a winning majority on first preferences in an electoral college split into three between MPs / MEPs, party members and members of affiliated bodies like the trade unions.

According to him, the decision by the country's electoral body «makes no sense» and may force some journalists to focus on negatives on the day of the elections.

The Southwest PDP wish to put on record our dissatisfaction with the performance of the electoral body under the ruling party as all the elections the APC has so far superintended have ended as inconclusive!

The mayor said his main focus will be on expanding pre-kindergarten to 3 - year - olds, along with increasing investments in affordable housing, putting body cameras on patrol officers citywide and tackling electoral reform.

The electoral body said in a tweet, «It has come to the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission that some persons, especially on social media have started publishing result of the Edo governorship election, such result should be disregarded as only INEC or its designated officials can do so.»

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.

The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said the concerns raised by the New Patriotic Party over the panel tasked by the Electoral Commission to review proposals on the voters» register is a strategy to further discredit the electoral body.

The Spokesman of the group, Mr. Ali Abacha, said in Akure on Thursday that the electoral body and security agencies were fully prepared for the poll, hence there was no need to postpone it.

Mimiko said his camp would have disregarded the Justice Okon Abang's judgment that ordered the national electoral body to recognise Ibrahim but for information given to him that the commission would only act on the last court order on the matter.

Speaking at the hearing conducted by the Senate's Joint Committee on INEC; and Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Saraki stated that the National Assembly had powers to legislate over the electoral body and other agencies of government.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

«impose a duty on government bodies to provide specified information to registration officers in Wales for the purposes of electoral registration.»

Prof. Yakubu, who led the ECONEC Needs Assessment and Solidarity Missions to Sierra Leone and Liberia last July, noted that the «integrity and moral force,» which the former president and his colleagues brought to electoral processes, facilitated the work of election management bodies on the continent, noting that all the 15 ECOWAS countries are now running democratic governments.

He averred: «There is no representation of special action groups that have, over the years, observed elections and built a body of knowledge / data on how the electoral process is subverted.

A seven - man panel of the apex court set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal on Friday, granted INEC's appeal, holding that only the electoral body was empowered to delineate constituencies.

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.

The report was that the electoral body had been on top of some minor hitches in the distribution of materials in some isolated polling units, about two or three and the issue had been resolved and the process was progressing smoothly.»