Electoral Act in a sentence

The Electoral Act clearly states that it is the commission or its appointed legal practitioner that can prosecute electoral offences, and what happened in Adamawa breached the clear provisions of the Act.

The provision for consensus in the APC Constitution is in conflict with the Electoral Act, in which case, the Electoral Act prevails.

He noted that world leaders had also started congratulating Tinubu after the Independent National Electoral Commission declared him the winner of the election, having satisfied the provisions of the Electoral Act.

Mr Lim said he posed, as usual, smiling for a man who snapped him in the street, but the photo ended up with the NSW Electoral Commission who called him two days later saying he was infringing the Electoral Act.

Tella explained that enactment of set of laws embedded in the new Electoral Act, 2022 was to strengthen the electoral process in the real sense.

Following an independent investigation into Reddy and Khanyile’s remarks, the asked the Electoral Court that the politicians be fined R200 000 each for contravening certain sections of the Electoral Act.

Dagat noted that Section 87 (9) of the Electoral Act empowers the National Working Committee (NWC) of political parties, to set up electoral committee to conduct primary election, and not the state executive of the party.

Now let’s go down to two provisions in the amended electoral act to show that even the hullaballoo over the presidential withholding of assent are needless exercises that are made to grandstand and not to advance our electoral system.

Section 239(f) of the Constitution makes the delimitation of constituencies the role of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, but the Electoral Act failed to elaborate on the delimitation process itself.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Prof. Abdul-Ganiyu Raji, at a press conference in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday said this was in accordance with Section 30 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.

He added that the conduct seriously breaches the societies’ act and indeed the electoral act pertaining to the operation and conduct of a political party.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday suspended action on the Bill for an Act to amend the Electoral Act 2010 to make provision for sequence of elections.

According to PM News, the Chairman of the three-man tribunal committee, Justice Arum Igyen-Ashom, held that Ofoma’s statement on oath was uploaded outside the 21 days stipulated under the Electoral Act.

Also, they are warned to desist from moving from one place to another on that day as stipulated by the Electoral Act 2022 (as amended).

Citing the relevant provision of the Electoral Act, a professor of law, Edoba Omoregie (SAN) said the party has 14 days to conduct fresh primary.

Coming out of this is my plea to Nigerians and the policy makers – first to Nigerians: read the Electoral Act 2022, study and understand it.

Edosonwan submitted, “One of the issues raised by the petitioner is whether the election was conducted in substantial compliance with the Electoral Act.

He, however, told the the Nigerian judiciary that the world is watching the Presidential Election Petitions Court and hopes it will abide by the provision of the law as enshrined in Nigeria’s Electoral Act of 2022.

He said a letter from the first defendant, which was admitted in evidence, showed that the PDP submitted its membership register in contravention of the Electoral Act, 2022.

He said that the Electoral Act has stipulated processes and laws governing elections, unlike what was obtained in the olden days when people had to fight to win positions.