The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee mentioned on Tuesday it is going to start on-line accreditation for journalists and media organizations excited by protecting the upcoming repeat and by-elections on January 17, 2024.
INEC, in a message from the Fee Secretary, Rose Oriaran-Anthony, mentioned the portal will open on January 17, 2024 and shut on January 25, 2024.
Oriaran-Anthony suggested journalists and media organizations to finish the appliance type https://imap.inecnigeria.org.
She additional suggested that “late submissions won’t be accepted and there will probably be no time extension because the portal will mechanically shut on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 12:00 midnight.”
INEC will maintain reruns and by-elections throughout the nation on February 3, 2024 to fill current vacancies within the state and federal legislatures.
The by-elections will probably be held in 9 states at 4,294 polling stations. The breakdown confirmed that elections for senatorial districts will probably be held in Ebonyi South, Ebonyi State, and Yobe East, Yobe State.
For the state constituencies, INEC will conduct elections in Chibok Constituency, Borno State, Chikun Constituency, Kaduna State and Guma Constituency, Benue State.
For Federal Constituencies, elections can be held in Akoko North East/Akoko North-West Federal Constituency, Ondo State, Jalingo/Yorro/Zing Federal Constituency, Taraba State, Surulere 1 Federal Constituency, Lagos State and Federal Constituency Yauri/Shanga/Ngaski. , Kebbi State.
Whereas the court-ordered repeat elections can be held in 4,596 polling stations, the elections will happen in a single senatorial district of Plateau Central and in twelve federal constituencies.
The federal constituencies embody Surulere 1 (Lagos), Gauri/Shanta/Ingaski and Arewa/Dandi (Kebbi), Akoko North East/North West (Ondo), Jalingo/Yorro/Zing (Taraba), Ikono/Ini (Akwa Ibom) and Kamkpa/Biase (Cross River State).
Others are Nnewi North/Nnewi South and Orumba North/Orumba South (Anambra), Igbo Eze North/Udenu (Enugu), Birnin Kudu/Buji (Jigawa), Igabi and Kachia/Kagarko (Kaduna), Faskari/Kankara/Sabuwa (Katsina ). ) ), Jos Noord/Bases (Plateau) and Advantageous/Fune (Yobe).
Equally, senatorial elections will probably be held in Yobe-East and Plateau Central as ordered by the court docket.
On the state stage, elections will probably be held to fill vacancies in Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Bayelsa Cross River, Delta, Enugu, Kaduna, Kano Nasarawa Niger, Oyo, Sokoto, Zamfara, Benue and Borno states.
