2027: Reps ask INEC to disqualify candidates not listed in submitted party registers

Ahead of the 2027 election, the House of Representatives Committee connected Electoral Matters has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to disqualify candidates whose names are not contained successful governmental enactment registers, arsenic stipulated by the Electoral Act 2026.

In a connection connected Tuesday, the Chairman of the committee, Bayo Balogun, drew the commission’s attraction to a Supreme Court ruling connected sections 77(5), 77(6) and 77(7) and called for afloat enforcement connected each governmental parties.

Balogun, a subordinate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said that pending ineligible proceedings concerning the interpretation, constitutionality and enforceability of the sections are implicit by the virtuousness of the Supreme Court judgment.

The lawmaker recalled that the Supreme Court connected September 24, 2026, restored the provisions aft mounting speech the Court of Appeal judgement that had declared them unconstitutional.

According to him, the apex tribunal held that the provisions were not inconsistent with the 1999 Constitution.

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