Ahead of next year’s general elections, the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has threatened to deal with political
parties, groups and individuals who engage in illegal campaigns.
The warning was issued on September 26 by Secretary of the
Commission Mrs Augusta Ogakwu and published in an INEC
bulletin that was released yesterday.
According to the INEC scribe, “The Commission shall henceforth
take necessary action against such associations, corporate
bodies, individuals, political parties, media or such
communication agencies, social media, candidates/aspirants
who contravene the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (As
amended) and/or Electoral Act 2010 (As amended) on public
campaign/rally and procession.”
The statement declared that the Commission’s attention had
been drawn to the insistent illegal campaigns carried out by
various associations, corporate entities, Individuals, public and
private media outfits and other communication agencies in the
country in contravention of the provisions of the 1999
Constitution (As Amended) and the Electoral Act 2010 (As
Amended) on limitation of political broadcasts.
The Commission further stressed that Section 99 of the Electoral
Act 2010 (As Amended) prohibited broadcast and political
campaign earlier than ninety (90) days before polling day.
According to the statement: “Section 99 (1) of the Electoral Act
2010 (As Amended) reads: ‘For the purpose of this Act, the
period of campaigning in public by every political party shall
commence 90 days before polling day and end 24 hours prior to
that day’.”
The Commission further stated that:
“Relevant Extracts of the Electoral Act 2010 (As Amended) have
since been reproduced and circulated by the Com-mission at
public places, media outfits, Federal Ministry of Information,
National Orientation Agency (NOA), National Communication
Commission (NCC) and Head-quarters of Interparty Advisory
Council (IPAC), Headquarters of State, FCT, Local Government
Area offices of INEC and the Federal Ministry of Environment for
their information and proper guidance.
source: www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/2015-inec-deal-illegal-campaigns/

I refuse to be concerned

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Did any1 see dat....ds post jst made front page for 2 minutes by 5:46pm ...now...so errors exist in here or was d op robbed...nawao

They should also look into cancelling election for any political party or individual candidate that campaigns using the tribal or religious differentiation as a weapon of winning the election. We need to stand together to win the war against tribal or religious siding of campaigning, it is causing division among ourselves. That is my opinion.

Easier said than done.

#storyforthewitches.