The chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC), Maurice Iwu, has announced a provisional timetable for the 2011 polls with a likelihood of elections starting either on January 8 or April 9, 2011.
Iwu announced the timetable at a National Conference for Stakeholders in the electoral process in Abuja.
The chairman said the timetable was provisional awaiting the final approval of the electoral reforms from the National Assembly.
According to Iwu, the legislative elections will be held on January 8, 2011, governorship and state assembly polls January 15, while the presidential election will hold on January 22, 2011.
Iwu said the second option was to retain the old order of having National Assembly elections on April 9, governorship and state assembly polls April 16 while presidential election would hold on April 23, 2011.
He argued that both options were in line with both the recommendations of the Justice Uwais-Electoral Reform Report and the existing electoral laws.
The INEC boss said that the provisional timetable would start with the review of registration of voters between April 26 and July 30, 2010 while the parties were expected to conduct their respective primaries between May 2 and July 31, 2010.
He said the last day for submission of nomination forms to the commission for the National Assembly poll would be September 20, 2010, governorship and state assembly elections ; September 27, 2010 while the presidential poll would be on October 4, 2010.
According to Iwu, the last day for publication of particulars of candidates for the National Assembly elections will be September 27.
He added that the governorship/state assembly elections would be October 4, and presidential elections on October 11.
Iwu said the display of the voters register for purposes of claims and objections would be between October 18 and October 30, 2010, while campaign by political parties would start on October 9, 2010.
Iwu said that collection of nomination forms for all positions would commence on November 2, 2010 and end on November 16, 2010 while the submission of candidates’ particulars would hold between November 22 and November 29, 2010.
He said the commission would from December 23, 2010 publish the notice of poll for all elections while submission of names of party agents to the resident electoral commissioners (RECs) would be between December 31, 2010 and January 14, 2011.
Source African Press Agency
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