Some political parties have taken up arms against the guidelines released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the 2019 elections. After the release of the list of voters, INEC also took the political parties through the guidelines being prepared for the election. Though it said that details of the guidelines would be released in one week, the political parties immediately took offence at the hints already provided by INEC. Having raised initial objections to the guidelines, 61 of the 91 registered political parties last Friday released details of their objections and asked INEC to revise the guidelines. The statement read in part: “Political parties demand stoppage of PVC collection 10 days to election and disclosure of the total number of PVC collected on polling unit basis to political parties.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 17, 2019 05:11 UTC