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February 05, 2007
INEC explains verificatin of candidates today ... As substitution of aspirants list begins
INEC will today start to receive substitution of governorship candidates list from political parties, News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The commission will equally make known to the public its findings from the verification of candidates particulars conducted between January10- January 23, 2007.
INEC chairman, Maurice Iwu at the weekend said the substitution for governorship candidates would be between February 5 and February 13 in conformity with the 60 days before election as prescribed by the 2006 Electoral Act.
He pointed out that during the verification there were few cases of petitions against some candidates, saying such cases were brought to the knowledge of the candidates and their parties.
``INEC as you know, does not have power to disqualify; it is the constitution.
If we find anybody not meeting up with the constitutional provisions for a particular office, his party has the right to substitute him'', he said.
He said the substitution for presidential candidates by the parties would start from February 13 to February 20, leaving 60 days ahead of April 21 elections.
Already, the national leader of PDP, President Olusegun Obasanjo, has announced that five PDP governorship candidates would be substituted for new ones, whose names had been forwarded to INEC.
In the same vein, ANPP, AC and other major parties have sent names of their substituted candidates to the electoral body in line with the electoral laws.
NAN recalls that INEC has repeatedly insisted that it will be strict with the deadline for the submission of substituted list, so as to give it enough time to plan for the elections.
NAN reports that INEC is to emboss each candidate's photographs alongside the logo of his party in the ballot paper for each of the elections.
Posted by Publisher at February 5, 2007 03:05 PM
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