INEC gives political parties deadline for submission of candidates

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the political parties to upload the names of candidates that emerged from democratic primaries as provided by Sec. 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 and submit them to the Commission.

The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday.

According to him, for emphasis, the Commission wishes to remind Political Parties that only the names of candidates that emerged from democratic primaries as provided by Sec. 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 shall be submitted to the Commission.

“Similarly, the list of all Presidential and Governorship candidates must be accompanied by the names of their running mates (i.e. Vice Presidential and Deputy Governorship candidates) without which the nomination is invalid”, he said.

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“All Political Parties are required to upload the details of their candidates for each constituency to the INEC Candidate Nomination Portal (ICNP).

“To achieve this objective, four officials recommended by each of the 18 political parties were trained on the procedure for uploading the nomination forms to the dedicated web portal. Confidential Access Codes to the portal have already been given to each Political Party to facilitate the uploading of its nominations.

“All nominations must be uploaded to the portal on/or before the deadlines. The portal will automatically shut down at 6.00 pm (1800hrs) on Friday 17th June 2022 for national elections and at 6.00 pm (1800hrs) on Friday 15th July 2022 for State elections”, INEC said.