Prof. Attahiru Jega will tomorrow meet with 37 Resident Electoral
Commissioners (RECs), who are in charge of the 36 states of the
federation and Abuja to discuss, among other things, the forced
registration of the Young Democratic Party which may force the
commission to postpone elections rescheduled for March 28 and April
11.
The newly registered party had recently demanded its inclusion in the
ballot papers following a court order that compelled the commission to
register it and include it as a participant in the forthcoming
elections.
The demand, sources told Vanguard, would inevitably lead to the
postponement of the elections given the fact that the ballot papers
had been printed prior to the registration of the party.
One of the options being canvassed to INEC is to appeal the judgment
of the court to register the new party. The commission, Vanguard,
learnt is expected to come up with a definite pronouncement on the way
out of the emerging crisis.
Jega's meeting with the RECs which was earlier scheduled for last week
was postponed because the commission decided to wait till the conduct
of the mock accreditation exercise which was meant to test the
functionality of the card reader machines that is to be used to
conduct the elections. The challenges encountered during the test run
of the card readers will also be discussed at the meeting.
--Vanguard
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