We’ve no preferred candidate, party – INEC

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has no preferred candidate or party in the coming 2023 general elections.

The commission’s Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made this claim on Wednesday in Abuja at the 4th Abubakar Momoh memorial lecture on ‘Electoral Act 2022: Imperatives for political parties and the 2023 general elections’.

The lecture was organised in honour of a former Director-General of The Electoral Institute (TEI), late Prof. Abubakar Momoh who died on Democracy Day, May 29, 2017.

Yakubu assured Nigerians that only their votes would determine the outcome of the 2023 general elections and future polls in the country.

Yakubu, represented by the Chairman, Board of TEI, Prof. Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, also stressed the need for stakeholders, especially political parties to note the major features introduced by the new Electoral Act 2022 and the possible implications of these changes on the upcoming elections.

He said the innovations were to deepen the country’s electoral process.

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