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| Professor Mahmood Yakubu |
The Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, released the Regulations and
Guidelines for the conduct of the 2019 general elections in the country.
INEC
announced this in a statement dated January 12, 2019, and personally signed by
its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu.
It disclosed that the regulations and
guidelines covered the general elections, bye-elections, re-run elections, as
well as supplementary elections.
The electoral umpire explained that this was
done in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the Constitution and the
Electoral Act 2010.
It added that the regulations and guidelines supersede the
existing ones. In the document signed by INEC chairman, the Commission
disclosed that accreditation of voters and voting would hold simultaneously
between 8-2pm.
The section on the method of voting also prescribed that the
Permanent Voters Cards and Smart Card Reader shall remain instruments of
identification of prospective voters
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