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2023: INEC releases dates for commencement of election campaign

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  has announced that campaigns for presidential and National Assembly elections will commence on September 28, 2022.

Making the disclosure at the first quarter press briefing on the ongoing voter registration, the electoral umpire also announced that campaigns for the governorship and state houses of assembly will commence on October 12, 2022.

Also, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, INEC Kaduna, Hajiya Asmau Sani Maikudi, said the campaigns by political parties would end by midnight of February 23, 2023, and midnight of March 9, 2023, for the presidential and National Assembly, and the governorship and states assembly elections, respectively.

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She explained that only the National Assembly could determine whether inmates of correctional centres would be allowed to vote in the elections.

“It is at the discretion of the National Assembly. If it is a law, INEC has no option but to implement the law and once it is passed by the National Assembly, people in correctional centres will be allowed to vote.”

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