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2023: INEC Reveals Requirement For All Candidates
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2023: INEC Reveals Requirement For All Candidates
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it would beam its searchlight on politicians and political parties to track the sources of funds for their campaigns in the 2023 general election. Hence, every candidate must declare his or her bank asset (s).
The commission, therefore, promised to set up a committee to monitor election expenditure ahead of the elections.
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The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, represented by a National Commissioner, Kunle Ajayi, stated this in Abuja during a policy roundtable conference on political campaign finance organised by The Electoral Forum, an organ of the Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development with support from MacArthur Foundation.
He said, “As long as we have not notified anybody that the race to the 2023 general election has started, we are not unaware of what anybody is doing. We follow the law strictly.
“We have not officially declared notice for the 2023 general election, but when we so declare, we will put our monitoring committees to motion like the Central Bank of Nigeria, DSS, EFCC, the ICPC, (commercial) banks and other law enforcement agencies. We have that plan already.
“Every candidate must be made to declare his bank asset. That is where they draw out their money, so we will make them present their statement of account right from the onset.
“We will make it mandatory for them to turn in their bank statement so that if they say they are doing billboard and the account remains the same, then there is a problem.”
The 2023 Nigerian elections will be held, in large part, on 18 February 2023 (tentative date). During this presidential election year, the President and Vice President will be elected with incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari being term-limited. Additionally, there will also be elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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