Anambra State has broken two records of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (NEC) as the forthcoming governorship election in
the state draws closer, reports ITRealms.
These records, ITRealms
gathered comprised the fielding of some 37 political partners for the
forthcoming governorship election slated for November 18, 2017, even without
any court case on the dispute over party primaries and being a state without one
of its Senatorial district currently sitting among the National Assembly since
2015.
Disclosing these during an interview session in Focus
Nigeria, a programme of African Independent Television (AIT) monitored in
Lagos, the National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education Committee
(IVEC) at INEC, Prince Soyebi Adedeji Solomon, while responding to update in
the proposed Anambra elections.
According to him, for the first time in the history of
political parties in Nigeria, Anambra State governorship election has 37
political parties fielding for the exercise which entails by implication they
are fielding 37 candidates.
This, he also said, entails that INEC has to print the
ballot paper with all the 37 political parties well displayed and which means
the ballot paper will be very long in size.
The INEC Commissioner also said that Anambra further record
breaking is the fact that there is court case with regards all the primaries
known to the Commission, barely 40 days to the governorship election.
In addition, Prince Soyebi Adedeji revealed that about 20
months to the expiration of the current life of this dispensation, Anambra
State is the only state that has one of its Senatorial seats in contention in
court.
“There are no court cases, they followed party primary
guidelines,” he said.
Anambra Central, he said, is the only state without a
senator sitting at the National Assembly, because of judicial pronouncement, “which
is another record that Anambra is holding that barely 20 months to the end of
the current tenure, INEC has not been able to conduct that Senatorial election
there,” due to above reasons.
Nonye Dom/GEE
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