The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) says it has now acquired 122 functions from {groups} looking for to register as political events in Nigeria.
The fee’s newest replace was contained in a press release on Thursday, July 3, by Sam Olumekun, INEC’s Nationwide Commissioner and Chairman of the Info and Voter Schooling Committee.
“On Monday final week, twenty third June 2025, the fee introduced that it had acquired functions from 110 associations looking for registration as political events.
“We additionally assured Nigerians that we might be offering common updates on the matter,” he stated. “The fee is processing these functions transparently and in equity to all candidates.”
Olumekun added that INEC has acquired 12 extra functions since then, elevating the overall to 122.
“As of yesterday, Wednesday, 2nd July 2025, the fee has acquired 12 extra functions, bringing the overall to 122,” he stated.
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He defined that the names, acronyms, addresses, interim chairmen, and secretaries of all the brand new candidates have been uploaded to INEC’s web site and different public platforms.
The fee additionally famous inside adjustments in management inside a few of the making use of {groups}, together with a case the place an interim secretary resigned and defected to a different affiliation.
INEC suggested all applicant associations to make sure consistency of their management and speak to particulars in the course of the course of to keep away from pointless delays.
“To facilitate the consideration of those functions, the fee appeals to associations to take care of consistency of their proposed management and addresses in order that they don’t, by their very own actions, trigger delays to the well timed consideration of their functions,” the assertion added.
The fee careworn that each one functions will probably be reviewed consistent with the provisions of the Electoral Act and the INEC Laws and Pointers for Political Events, 2022.
