The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has revealed why the APC governorship candidate in the Kogi Governorship election, Governor Yahaya Bello, won’t be disqualified for double registration.
Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the commission said that the electoral Act does not provide for disqualification as a penalty for such an offence.
Yakubu said “Under the Electoral Act, double registration is not a condition to disqualify a candidate. In any case, the action we took on the part of the officials that were indicted were administrative based on the terms and conditions of service.
“The action we need to take on non-staff of the commission is to prosecute and we cannot prosecute someone with constitutional immunity.
“We can only prosecute based on the provision of the Electoral Act”.
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