The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmud Yakubu, has disclosed that the commission may end up registering about 80 political parties for the 2019 general election.
Yakubu made the disclosure on Tuesday, March 27, during his address at national colloquium organised by the Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group (ISDMG) in Abuja.
"We may end up having up to 80 political parties for the 2019 general election,’’ he said.
The chairman said currently, over 100 additional applications for new political parties had been submitted to INEC, while nine had met the criteria.
Yakubu said voter registration had increased in Rivers, Anambra, Borno, Delta, Lagos, Cross-River, Osun, Enugu, Kano and Plateau states due to Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).
He assured Nigerians that the 2019 elections would be better than that of 2015.
Meanwhile, INEC has said the committee set up to investigate the Kano under age voters saga has concluded its facts finding mission and is in the process of writing its report.
Our source gathered that the report would soon be submitted and considered by the commission. The commission while reiterating its commitment to ensuring a clean and accurate voters register towards ensuring a free and fair 2019 elections said the report of the investigation will be ready soon.
In a statement by its director, Voters Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze, INEC disclosed that presently, only members of the committee are privy to their findings, while also emphasising that all members of the committee are persons of unquestionable integrity and competence.
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