{"id":32565,"date":"2019-06-13T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=32565"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:42:00","slug":"2019-elections-we-have-over-1689-litigations-says-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/2019-elections-we-have-over-1689-litigations-says-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Elections: We Have Over 1,689 Litigations, Says INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it has recorded over 1,689 court cases arising from the 2019 general election.<\/p>\n

Mallam Mohammed Haruna, INEC National Electoral Commissioner in charge of Niger, Kogi and Nasarawa States disclosed this on Thursday in Lafia during the state level post-election review retreat.<\/p>\n

Haruna explained that more than 890 of the cases were pre-election matters arising from the conduct of political party primary elections, while 799 were election petitions at the various tribunals across the country.<\/p>\n

According to him, the pre-election cases indicated that political parties needed to get their acts together in order to deepen the nation\u2019s democratic process.<\/p>\n

He said,\u00a0\u201cWe are here to review what we did in this year\u2019s general election with a view to improving on our subsequent outing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will agree with me that any document is work in progress, you can never get it perfectly,\u201d Haruna.<\/p>\n

He expressed optimism that from the review of the 2019 general election with inputs from the various stakeholders, subsequent elections would be better than the previous as noticeable pitfalls would be addressed.<\/p>

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Haruna cited the unprecedented number of political parties that participated in the 2019 general election as one of the challenges that the commission faced during the conduct of the polls.<\/p>\n

In his remarks, Dr Uthman Ajidagba, Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state said that 26 cases were recorded in the state from the 2019 general election.<\/p>\n

Ajidagba said two were pre-election litigations while 24 cases were at the election petitions tribunals.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThat we have this small number means that there was a level of satisfaction but some people just want to prove points by going to the tribunal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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