Election : Presidential Final List Of candidates For The 2023 Election Release By INEC

18 presidential candidates in A total have been cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the 2023 forthcoming general election.

The commission uncovered this in an explanation delivered on Tuesday and endorsed by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye.

The new rundown is a last released by the electoral body at its offices nationwide in June.

The commission said 4,223 contestants have additionally been cleared for senatorial and place of agents decisions in the impending 2023 political race.

As per INEC, the last rundown was delivered following the endorsement by the initiative of the commission at the meeting held on Tuesday.

It noticed that the endorsement was in as per section 32(1) of the Electoral Act 2022 and item 8 of the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 General Election.

As per the list, 1,101 candidates would bump for 109 senatorial seats and 3,122 possibility for House of Representatives seats.

“As far as orientation circulation, 3,875 competitors are male, comprised of 35 for Presidential and Vice Presidential, 1,008 for Senate and 2,832 for House of Representatives. Similarly, 381 females comprising 1 for the Presidential, 92 for the Senate, and 288 for the House of Representatives, are contesting. There are also 1

That’s what it added “The list for specific constituencies is published in each State where they are located while the comprehensive nationwide list has been uploaded to the Commission’s website.”

The commission said the final list of candidates for State elections (Governorship and State Constituencies) will be published on 4th October 2022, as already indicated on the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 General Election.
“We note the way that not every one in the political parties conducted primaries in all the constituencies, submitted the particulars of candidates that emerged from valid primaries or substituted their candidates after fresh primaries within 14 days as provided in section 33 of the Electoral Act.

“This has prompted various prosecutions, some of which are continuous. Where the Commission was presented with Court orders by distressed hopefuls or competitors before the distribution of this list, these have been demonstrated under the comment segment.”

The commission said that withdrawal or replacement of candidates would not be allowed except in the event of death as provided in section 34(1) of the Electoral Act or pursuant to an order of a Court of competent jurisdiction.

It spoke to all ipolitical parties to channel any perceptions on the list of candidates to the Commission, and such must be signed by the National Chairman and Secretary of the political party and supported with an affidavit as provided in section 32(2) of the Electoral Act 2022.