{"id":105141,"date":"2023-12-24T19:51:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect"},"modified":"2023-12-24T22:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T21:16:29","slug":"inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect","title":{"rendered":"INEC issues certificates of return to 16 Plateau Assembly members-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday issued certificates of return to 16 members-elect for the Plateau State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The members-elect were declared winners of the March 18 elections after the Court of Appeal nullified the election of those declared by INEC.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that of the 16 members-elect, 15 were All Progressives Congress, APC, members, while one was a member of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Oliver Agundu, Plateau INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, said that the exercise fulfilled the directives of the Appeal Court.<\/p>\n<p>Agundu said that the Appeal Court had directed the commission to issue certificates of return to the lawmakers as the rightful winners of the elections.<\/p>\n<p>He congratulated the lawmakers-elect for the feat and wished them well as they settled down to serve the state.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Rufus Bature, APC State Chairman, said that the Appeal Court victory further strengthened the electoral process and deepened Nigeria\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Bature cautioned the lawmakers against mockery of other political parties in the state and urged them to be magnanimous in victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interests of Plateau will always remain the top priority. We are looking at democracy as being about ourselves and not about ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy charge to the members is that we should look at Plateau as our starting point in whatever we are going to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Member-elect for Jos North West, Mr Sunday Naah, said that he was conscious of the high expectations of citizens and pledged to give his all to the growth of his constituency and the state at large.<\/p>\n<p>Naah assured his constituents that he would make quality laws to alleviate the sufferings of the people of Jos North West Constituency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday issued certificates of return to 16 members-elect for the Plateau State House of Assembly. The members-elect were declared winners of the March 18 elections after the Court of Appeal nullified the election of those declared by INEC. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":105139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,251,254,7048],"class_list":["post-105141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-inec","tag-nigeria","tag-plateau-assembly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INEC issues certificates of return to 16 Plateau Assembly members-elect - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday issued certificates of return to 16 members-elect for t ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC issues certificates of return to 16 Plateau Assembly members-elect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday issued certificates of return to 16 members-elect for t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-24T18:51:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-24T21:16:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/sm_1703436029.542733.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"INEC issues certificates of return to 16 Plateau Assembly members-elect\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-24T18:51:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-24T21:16:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect\"},\"wordCount\":304,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/sm_1703436029.542733.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Plateau Assembly\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-issues-certificates-of-return-to-16-plateau-assembly-members-elect\",\"name\":\"INEC issues certificates of return to 16 Plateau Assembly members-elect - 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