Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has shifted the deadline for the submission of lists of candidates for the governorship
and state Houses of Assembly elections from December 25 to December 26, 2014.
The commission, however, declined to comment on the number of political parties, which had submitted or yet to summit the forms bearing the names of their Presidential and National Assembly candidates. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, stated this during an interview with journalists in his office on Thursday evening in Abuja.
According to him, the commission shifted the date because it falls on Christmas Day.
The commission, however, hinted that there was no extension for the December 18 (Thursday’s) deadline set for the submission of forms for Presidential and National Assembly candidates. Idowu said there would be no room for submission for any political party that fails to submit by the set deadline, which was 8pm of December 18, 2014. He said, “For the Presidential and National Assembly elections, the deadline is Thursday December 18 by 8 pm for the
submission of form CF001 and CF002.’’ “Even by tomorrow (Friday), you may not likely get the information from INEC because the law provides that what is being submitted today must be officially published on December 25.

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