BREAKING: INEC Announces Date To Release 2023 Elections Timetable

• The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the date for the release of the 2023 general elections timetable, EKO HOT BLOG has gathered.
• INEC stated that there must be clarity and certainty about the electoral legal framework to govern the conduct of the 2023 general elections before the timetable would be released.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the date for the release of the 2023 general elections timetable, EKO HOT BLOG has gathered.

The INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, disclosed that the timetable for general elections would be released in November 2021.

Yakubu made the disclosure at a public hearing on the Electoral Offences Commission (Establishment) Bill, sponsored by the Senator representing Borno North Senatorial District, Senator Abubakar Kyari, on Wednesday.

The INEC Chairman stated that there must be clarity and certainty about the electoral legal framework to govern the conduct of the 2023 general elections before the timetable would be released.

Yakubu appealed to the National Assembly to expedite work on the electoral act amendment bill currently before it.

“I will like to reiterate our appeal to the National Assembly for the expeditious passage of the Electoral Offences Commission Bill and the pending review of the Electoral Legal Framework generally.

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“We are confident that the National Assembly will conclude work on the legal framework in earnest.

“The commission is anxious to know the legal framework to govern the conduct of the 2023 general elections.

“By the principle established by the commission, the 2023 general elections will hold on Saturday, 18 February 2023 which is exactly one year, nine months, two weeks and six days away from today.

“We hope to release the timetable for the general elections immediately after the Anambra governorship election scheduled to hold on the 6th of November 2021,” he said.

The INEC boss added, “In order to do so, there should be clarity and certainty about the electoral legal framework to govern the 2023 general election.

“We are confident that the national assembly will do the needful and to do so in earnest.”

While speaking on the prosecution of electoral offenders, Yakubu stated that the Commission, since the 2015 general elections, had secured 60 convictions out of the 124 cases filed in court.

“We will like to see more prosecution offenders not just of ballot box snatchers and falsifiers of the result of the election but most importantly, their sponsors.

“We look forward to the day when highly placed sponsors of thuggery including chieftains of political parties and candidates will be prosecuted. By doing so, we believe that we will send an even bigger message,” he said.

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