{"id":29153,"date":"2020-08-26T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29153"},"modified":"2020-08-26T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:19:43","slug":"inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states","title":{"rendered":"INEC gives update on 14 by-elections in 8 states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 13 political parties have signaled their intention to conduct primaries for the forthcoming by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>On October 31, fourteen legislative polls will be conducted in ten states.<\/p>\n<p>The conduct are for Bayelsa Central Senatorial District; Bayelsa West Senatorial District; Nganzai State Constituency, Borno; Bayo State Constituency, Borno; Cross River North Senatorial District; Obudu State Constituency, Cross River.<\/p>\n<p>Others are Imo North Senatorial District; Lagos East Senatorial District; Kosofe II State Constituency, Lagos; Plateau South Senatorial District, Bakura State Constituency, Zamfara; Ibaji State Constituency, Kogi.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner for Information, said the parties opted for indirect primaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the political parties did not specify the venues within the respective constituencies for the conduct of their primaries. Their attention is hereby drawn to the provisions of Section 87(4)(c) of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe section makes it mandatory for any party that intends to nominate a candidate to the Senate, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly to hold its congresses in the respective senatorial district, federal constituency and the state assembly constituency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 13 political parties have signaled their intention to conduct primaries for the forthcoming by-elections. On October 31, fourteen legislative polls will be conducted in ten states. The conduct are for Bayelsa Central Senatorial District; Bayelsa West Senatorial District; Nganzai State Constituency, Borno; Bayo State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":24035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[951,251,959],"class_list":["post-29153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bayelsa-state","tag-inec","tag-zamfara-state"],"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 gives update on 14 by-elections in 8 states - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 13 political parties have signaled their\" \/>\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\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC gives update on 14 by-elections in 8 states\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 13 political parties have signaled their\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-26T13:19:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/INEC-scaled-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"INEC gives update on 14 by-elections in 8 states\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-26T13:19:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states\"},\"wordCount\":194,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/INEC-scaled-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bayelsa State\",\"INEC\",\"Zamfara State\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-gives-update-on-14-by-elections-in-8-states\",\"name\":\"INEC gives update on 14 by-elections in 8 states - 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