INEC trains political parties on new Electoral Act

INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (INEC) has organised a training for political parties to keep them abreast of the new Electoral Act.

  In his keynote address at the training tagged the Electoral Act 2023: Imperatives for Political Parties and the 2023 General Election the National Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said the training is meant to enlighten and sensitise political parties on the new provisions in the act and the derivative subsidiary laws of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

  The INEC Chairman, represented by the Chairman, Board of the electoral institute, Professor Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, said that as the 2023 General election draws closer, it is imperative for all stakeholders, especially the political parties to note the major features introduced by the new Electoral Act 2022 and the possible implications of the changes on the upcoming elections which according to him, has been witnessed in the recent party primaries.