INEC Gives Deadline For Submission Of Candidate Names For Vice President

Nigeria’s electoral commission, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has given political parties one week to submit the names of their presidential candidates and their running mates.

The electoral body gave June 17, 2022, as the deadline for the names of parties’ presidential candidates and their running to be uploaded on its website.

It gave July 15, 2022, as the deadline for the names of governorship candidates and the running mates to be uploaded on the website.

According to INEC, the names must be uploaded on the website on or before 6 pm on the deadline dates.
The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in a post on the commission’s Facebook page, said, “All Political Parties are required to upload the details of their candidates for each constituency to the INEC Candidate Nomination Portal (ICNP).

To achieve this objective, four officials recommended by each of the 18 political parties were trained on the procedure for uploading the nomination forms to the dedicated web portal. Confidential Access Codes to the portal have already been given to each Political Party to facilitate the uploading of its nominations.

The statement reads; “For emphasis, the Commission wishes to remind Political Parties that only the names of candidates that emerged from democratic primaries as provided by Sec. 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 shall be submitted to the Commission. Similarly, the list of all Presidential and Governorship candidates must be accompanied by the names of their running mates (i.e. Vice Presidential and Deputy Governorship candidates) without which the nomination is invalid. All nominations must be uploaded to the portal on/or before the deadlines.

“The portal will automatically shut down at 6.00pm (1800hrs) on Friday 17th June 2022 for national elections and 6.00pm (1800hrs) on Friday 15th July 2022 for State elections.”