NATASHA’S RECALL: Setback For Petitioners As INEC Identifies Lack Of Addresses, Signatures, Emails In Petition

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The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has faulted the petition seeking to recall the senator representing Kogi Central senatorial district, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from the national assembly.

At the commission’s weekly meeting where the petition was discussed on Tuesday, INEC said its immediate observation is that the representatives of the petitioners did not provide their contact address, telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es) in the covering letter forwarding the petition through which they can be contacted as provided in Clause 1(f) of our Regulations and Guidelines.

According to INEC, the petition from Kogi Central Senatorial District was accompanied by six bags of documents said to be signatures collected from over half of the 474,554 registered voters spread across 902 Polling Units in 57 Registration Areas (Wards) in the five Local Government Areas of Adavi, Ajaokuta, Ogori/Magongo, Okehi and Okene.

INEC in a statement signed by the National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee Sam Olumekun noted that the address given is “Okene, Kogi State”, which is not a definite location for contacting the petitioners, adding that only the telephone number of “the lead petitioner” is provided as against the numbers of all the other representatives of the petitioners.

INEC assured that once the petition meets the requirements of submission, as contained in its regulations, the Commission shall commence the verification of the signatures in each Polling Unit in an open process restricted to registered voters that signed the petition only.

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