THE Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said his commission has
started scrutinising the relevant documents submitted by the All
Progressives Congress for registration, saying as soon as the exercise
is completed, Nigerians will know the outcome.
Jega stated this while answering
questions from newsmen at a one-day workshop organised by United
Development Programme and Democratic Governance for Development
Project, in collaboration with Inter-party Advisory Council, on
revalidation of reviewed code of conduct for political parties in Minna
on Tuesday.
Jega said, “The commission is
assiduously working on all documents submitted by APC and as soon as we
finish scrutinising all relevant information and documents submitted, we
will let Nigerians know of the outcome.”
He said the reviewed code of conduct was the new framework for ensuring that politics in the country was violence-free.
Jega added that INEC and all political
parties in the country had accepted and validated the new document as an
instrument for governing the conducts of political parties activities
in the country.
He said, “The major changes adopted in
the new code of conduct was the expansion of the central working
committee of IPAC from two to seven members, which created an avenue for
many parties to be represented.”
He added that contrary to 2011 election
code of conduct, where punishments were not stipulated for offences
committed by any political party, punishments to be administered were
clearly spelt out for any erring party in the revised version.
Also speaking on the occasion, the
Secretary General of the Congress for Progressive Change, Buba Galadima,
said the proposed opposition party had submitted all that was required
of it to INEC for the past two weeks.
He added that he was optimistic that APC
would be registered by the electoral body as soon as the commission
finished working on all documents and information provided by the party.
On the revised vision of the code of
conduct, Galadima said his party had agreed to all the changes effected
in the new guideline.
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