The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the onus of having a new electoral framework ahead of the 2023 general elections resides with the National Assembly and the Presidency.

Festus Okoye, the INEC’s Commissioner, said this at the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room National Stakeholders’ Forum on Elections on Monday in Abuja.

According to him, as far as the electoral management body was concerned, INEC was still operating with the existing electoral legal framework because the new one was not ready.

He said that there were some fundamental issues around the new electoral framework. One of the big issues as far as the electoral management body is concerned related to the deepening of democracy through the use of technology.

Okoye said that INEC, from the beginning, made a determination that it is important in the national interest to reduce human interference in the electoral process, and based on that, decided to deepen the use of technology in the electoral process.

“That explains why as of today, political parties file particulars of their nominated candidates electronically, they no longer come to our office with documents.

“As of today, domestic election observers, international election observers and the media apply for accreditation electronically.

“INEC is the first electoral management body in Africa to introduce online voter registration exercise and based on this you can see the astronomical rise in the number of young persons who have done their pre-registration before capturing their biometrics.

“Now, what is it in the new electoral bill that is different? Prior to this particular period, the uploading of polling units results was just for public views.’’

Okoye said that the second issue related to internal democracy in political parties had been very challenging and difficult to handle.
He said that looking at the existing electoral legal framework, two methods of voting in primary elections have been imputed there, direct and indirect primaries.

Okoye said that parties have conducted direct primaries prior to this particular period and the INEC had monitored both direct and indirect primaries.

“What we must set aside is that the success or otherwise of the conduct of direct primaries resides with the political parties because it is the political party that will hire the venue for their own primaries.

“INEC will not hire venues for them, they are going to print their own ballot papers and result sheets, they are going to get their own ballot boxes because we gave them ballot boxes in the past and most of them didn’t return them.

“We are not going to give them ballot boxes this time around; they are the ones who are going to secure the electoral environment, our function is to monitor what they have said they are going to do.

“Not until the political parties bring out their own design which the new electoral framework says they should bring out, there is no way we can put cost or even personnel to the number we are going to deploy,” he said.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2021/12/14/2023-elections-new-electoral-law-now-awaits-nass-presidency-inec/

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Humm

Nigeria is a failed state

Ok

Humm

benuejosh:
Time to bury PDP.

They should do the needful.

Gimodm:
Nigeria is a failed state

you are part of the failure man

New electoral law everyday na wa

Nigeria and political higihaga na twins.. lite up my kpoli jare

Let's hope our so called president will assigned to the bill ASAP.

Buhari is a product of electoral impunities, nothing will be changed n the current electoral laws.

election time,
Scamming time.
the one we are in, we are still staggering .
almost collapsing.

If not for zombiesm, what will make a normal human from Benue to want to vote for APC again despite all they've suffered in the hands of APC. (Referring to one zombie up there)

The new electoral act will deapen democracy and it will also serve as one of the few legacies of buhari
Am not too ok with that part of direct primary that allows all card carrying members to participate in the primary. It should have been all members who are financially up to date and not just party members.

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slawormiir:
Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright

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Stop polluting the comments section with irrelevant things

Ok

Buhari should sign the act into law so we can kick APC to the dustbin of history

Good one

GRAMMAR

deepen them papa with technology

i went out to buy common bread this morning and run i run back home . i am the only one seeing these price increase on daily in Nigeria abeg

Politics Nigeria

Only thing and only way Buhari's name will be remembered without people spitting in disapproval (I am not sure this will happen cos the man has ruined himself and the country beyond repair) is to sign this new Electoral Bill into law and bequeath a better electoral process than he inherited from GEJ which his party has ruined also. The same people around him, holding him hostage to his greed, ignorance, nepotism and illiteracy will also not allow him sign this and shine small.

After this, if Nigerians hear the name "Buhari" all of them will run.

PS: Don't worry about those hailing him now, they will be his greatest critics when he leaves office. Na so sycophacy dey work.

Will the dead beat president sign it?
He gained re-election in 2019 by not signing electoral amendments law. Let’s wait and see if the dead wit will sign it.

It shall be well with Nigeria
That's all.

New electoral act?

saudatu:
Let's hope our so called president will assigned to the bill ASAP.

That will help his battered legacy.

Would Buhari redeem his badly damaged imagine this time.
Sign the election bill and shame his old age.

Nigeria our country,we pray for the good to happen

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Ok Naa..

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INEC Matter don taaaya all of us.