INEC has no most popular candidate, celebration for 2027 elections – Amupitan

Joash Amupitan, chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), says the fee has no most popular candidate or
political celebration within the 2027 elections.

 

Amupitan spoke on Friday throughout a go to by the pre-election
fact-finding mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),
led by Victor Bockarie Foh, former vice-president of Sierra Leone, in Abuja.

Amupitan stated the fee was conducting a readiness
evaluation tour of the nation’s geopolitical zones in preparation for the
basic election.

“INEC below my watch has no candidate and no political
celebration,” Amupitan stated.

“Our sole allegiance is to the rule of regulation, the sovereign
will of the Nigerian voters, and the democratic progress of our nation.”

The INEC chairman stated the polls could be held throughout 8,809
registration areas and 774 LGAs  within the
nation.

According to him, the nation’s voter register had surpassed
103 million, including that INEC had accomplished 9 of the 14 main statutory
milestones in its revised timetable for the elections.

Amupitan stated INEC had concluded three phases of the
steady voter registration train and accomplished the nationwide bodily
show of the preliminary voter register.

He stated the fee would deploy the bimodal voter
accreditation system (BVAS) for fingerprint and facial biometric accreditation,
alongside digital consequence administration programs.

He added that INEC had launched the eEC8A digital
verification platform to enrich consequence administration and verification by means of
the INEC consequence viewing portal (IReV).

Amupitan added that the fee was working with related
safety businesses by means of the inter-agency consultative committee on election
safety (ICCES) to supply sufficient election safety.

On his half, the top of the ECOWAS mission, stated the go to
was a part of the regional physique’s efforts to evaluate electoral preparedness in
member states approaching basic election.

Foh stated the mission, which included Serigne Mamadou Ka,
head of the ECOWAS electoral help division, would assess the preparedness
of electoral stakeholders and determine areas the place the regional physique may
present assist.

He stated the mission was consistent with Article 31 of the
ECOWAS protocol on democracy and good governance and Article 53 of the ECOWAS
battle prevention framework.

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