Sentences with phrase «national electoral body»

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.

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.

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

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.»

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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...

Worse still, the questionable participation of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as observers of the so - called primaries, has brought to the fore concerns of Nigerians about the seeming absence of institutional memory in Nigeria's electoral body.

Yakubu said, «Given the high stakes of conducting elections in developing countries, electoral commissions must understandably be worried about the twin issues of communication and security especially in situations where data reside with and is directly transmitted to the tallying centres through offshore vendors rather than exclusively controlled within national boundaries by election monitoring bodies.

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 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.

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.