SAN FRANCISCO, August 16, (THEWILL) – The Indenpendent National Electoral Commssion (INEC) has registered a new political party known as the African People’s Party, bringing the number of parties to 46.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, made this known on Wednesday at the swearing-in of new nine Residents Electoral Commissioners (REC) at the commission’s head office in Abuja.
Yakubu said that the party was on Tuesday issued Certificate of Registration in compliance with a court order revealing that APP originally applied for registration as a political party in 2014.
Yakubu said that the commission had so far registered 2,092,434 new registrants under the on-going nationwide Continuous Voter Registration.
“At the end of the first quarter of the exercise, some 1,810,153 citizens were registered.
“The exercise is now in the second week of the second quarter and already some 282,281 citizens have been registered, making a total of 2,092,434 new registrants so far,” he added.
Yakubu, congratulated the newly sworn-in nine RECs saying that their assumption of duty came at an auspicious time, at exactly 548 days to the 2019 General Elections, and after the conclusion of the Commission’s Strategic Plan 2017-2021.
He advised them to be fair to all, partisan to none, saying that as election managers, they would be responsible for the implementation of the plan.
“As election managers, you must maintain the required openness and consultation.
“At the same time, you must be very firm and courageous on the side of the law as well as our regulations and guidelines as required of you as unbiased umpire.
“Be fair to all, partisan to none.”
He declared that the new appointees would be immediately deployed to field orientations in the four elections to be conducted by the commission over the next few weeks.
The new RECs are Mrs Asman Maikudi, Sam Olumekun, Prof. Riskuwa Shehu, Mr Kassim Geidam, Mr. Jubrin Zarewa, Mr Abdulganiyu Raji, Prof. Sam Egwu, and Mallam Sudiq Musa.
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