The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said the petitioned submitted at its headquarters for the recall of the suspended Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has failed to meet the basic requirements to be accepted.
According to the commission, recall of a representatives has constitutionally laid down procedures and requirements.
A statement signed by the INEC’s Chairman, Voters Education, Sam Olumekun, noted that it is only when the requirements have been fulfilled that the commission will entertain such petition.
While confirming that over half of the 474,544 voters at Natasha’s constituency signed the petition, INEC however noted the absence of contact address in the petition.
“The Commission’s 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.
“The address given is “Okene, Kogi State”, which is not a definite location for contacting the petitioners. Only the telephone number of “the lead petitioner” is provided as against the numbers of all the other representatives of the petitioners.”
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