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BREAKING: INEC announces dates for 2019 general elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced dates for 2019 general elections.
In a statement posted on its website Thursday, the electoral commission said it was making the announcements well ahead “in order to ensure certainty in our dates for elections, and to allow for proper planning by the Commission, political parties, security agencies, candidates and all stakeholders”.

“To that extent, the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on Saturday, 16th February 2019, while the Governorship/State Assembly/Federal Capital Territory Area Council Elections will hold on Saturday 2nd March 2019.”

The commission also announced that 23 of its electoral officers being prosecuted for various electoral offences will be placed on half salary and will not report for duty pending the determination of their respective cases by the court.

Read the full statement:

Gentlemen of the Press,
You are all welcome to yet another briefing, which is in fulfillment of our pledge to regularly brief the public on the Commission’s activities.

1. Our democracy is maturing and the Commission believes that there should be certainty with regard to the timetable for elections. For instance, in the United States, general elections always hold on the second PRESS Tuesday of November in the election year. In Ghana, it’s the 7th of December of the election year, while in other places like Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Costa Rica and Switzerland, the dates are also known in advance.

In Nigeria, the constitution provides for elections to hold not earlier than 150 days and not later than 30 days to the end of the incumbent’s tenure. In order to ensure certainty in our dates for elections, and to allow for proper planning by the Commission, political parties, security agencies, candidates and all stakeholders, the Commission has decided to fix the date for the National Elections for the third Saturday in February of the election year, followed by State elections two weeks later. To that extent, the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on Saturday, 16th February 2019, while the Governorship/State Assembly/Federal Capital Territory Area Council Elections will hold on Saturday 2nd March 2019.

2. The Commission has also received a Report from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of the Federation, informing us that 23 Electoral Officers indicted over the investigation into the 10th December Rivers Re-run elections have been charged to court. The Commission has repeatedly said that it will cooperate with security agencies for the prosecution of any of our staff found to have violated the integrity of the electoral process. Accordingly, at our meeting today, the Commission decided to apply the provisions of the INEC and Conditions of Service to all those charged to court, since it constitutes gross misconduct. The penalty for this is interdiction. All the 23 Electoral Officers will be placed on half salary and will not report for duty pending the determination of their respective cases by the court.

3. Ladies and gentlemen, you will recall that last week, we informed you that a decision would be taken this week on the recommendation by the Disciplinary Committee on staff indicted by the EFCC Report for misconduct during the 2015 General Elections. However, in view of the fact that some of the staff are also among those being prosecuted by the DPP, the Commission has decided to defer its decision on the EFCC Report to enable us reconcile the EFCC/DPP reports.

4. And as part of our routine consultations with our stakeholders, the Commission has decided to hold the next regular quarterly meetings with stakeholders as follows:

A. Tuesday 14th March –Meeting with Political Parties
B. Wednesday 15th March – Meeting with Civil Society Organizations
C. Friday 17th March – Meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES).
D. Monday March 21 – Meeting with Media organizations. Our invitations have been sent to the respective stakeholders
5. We wish to assure all Nigerians that the Commission will remain fully committed to the sanctity of the electoral process and will never protect any of its staff, no matter highly placed, found to have violated the provisions of the Electoral Act and our guidelines.

Prince Solomon Soyebi
National Commissioner (In charge of South West)
March 9, 2017.

http://www.timesng.com/news/headlines/225704-breaking-inec-announces-dates-2019-general-elections.html

Interesting

February again

ochobaba:
February again

FeBuhari??

February again!!

Who will be the new Valentine?

Jonathan postponed his to March because of boko haram, because of whom will Buhari postpone his? ND avengers?

Mynd44, OAM4J, INEC is being proactive, emulate INEC pls

But where is lalasticlala sef

As if there will be anything like a country called Nigeria come 2019

Sounds more like'
this is an official notification for politicians to start importing arms, ammunitions, fake uniforms of police and other armed forces, gadgets as well as ballot papers for the do or die warfare.
Thus anyone that doesn't make it aboard remains irrelevant for the next 4 to 8 years.
We are watching

Nigerians can't wait
Na make Buhari and his team no reduce the country's population with hardship before then.

Ok o

The race for campaign would not heat up.

This is the reason Reno Omokri, Remi Fani-Kayode, Ayodele Fayose have been talking and making themselves relevant.

It is to prepare their party for the election, at least that people would not forget that abbreviation: PDP

All is well.....

Let all youths shine their eyes that they wont be elements of violence and abuse.

the ones we wasted billions to elect in previous elections , what have we gained from them....we can afford to waste more......

Good one

Atiku vs Tinubu countdwn

Perfect time to make the ruling party strategize their rigging plan...

Let's see as it unfolds

So soon? Is that how it's usually done?

Babu no go gree

GEJ 2019

As if they will be adequately prepared by then

THAT'S IF NIGERIA WILL SURVIVE TO THAT YEAR

atiku 2019

inec self no fit wait for 2019 to come . everybody don taya

Let's see what the slogan would be this time around.

Sai Baba, TAN, Power, Fresh, Change, etc.

What is next??

This is the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end.

Good initiative.

The dire has been cast.... Countdown to the end of this fraud istration

Valentine's day PSG 4-0 barca
Women's day Barca 6-1 PSG
Can u now see d difference between ur
Mum and ur Girlfriend.....

Nigeria can't last that long brotherly, forget it.

I am at Ife in my house, come and beat me.

na me inec people endorse