The chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu has spoken of the possibility
of having up to 80 political parties participate in next year’s general
elections.
He spoke on Tuesday while
delivering a keynote address at the national colloquium organised by the
Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group, ISDMG, in Abuja.
Recall that the electoral umpire
had last December announced the registration of 21 new political parties,
bringing the number of registered parties in the country as at then to 67.
Yakubu pointed out that at the
moment, INEC has received over 100 additional applications for new political
parties, while nine had met the criteria.
According to him, “We may end up
having up to 80 political parties for the 2019 general election.”
The INEC chairman, however, gave
the assurance that the 2019 elections would be better than that of 2015.
Speaking earlier, the Executive
Director of ISDMG, Dr Chima Amadi said INEC had been the most responsive of all
government agencies involved in the election value chain.
He added that the commission had
been taking advice and constructive criticisms and adjusting its activities to
reflect same while such could not be said about others within the chain.
In Amadi’s words, “The security
agencies continue to behave true to type and are even getting worse, while
political gladiators horn their manipulative stock-in-trade.
“However, we are resolved to take
them to task with the same resilience that we used in getting INEC to act
properly.
“For the 2019 elections, the
ISDMG will be deploying cutting edge technology to the field to ensure that
history is properly documented,’’ he said.
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