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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed it is preparing to conduct a run-off presidential election.<\/p>\n

This will be done if no candidate meets the conditional requirements to be declared winner after the 25 February poll.<\/p>\n

INEC\u2019s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, hinted this during a meeting with Bureau Chiefs\/Editors of media organisations on Friday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Okoye noted that it has been INEC\u2019s tradition for all elections conducted since 1999.<\/p>\n

\u201c18 candidates will be on the ballot for the first election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Constitution has made it very clear two candidates who will be on the ballot are: one among the candidates who scored the highest number of votes at the election, the one that scored the highest number of votes at the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second candidate that will be on the ballot will be one among the remaining candidates who have the majority of votes in the highest number of states,\u201d Okoye explained.<\/p>\n

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (All Progressive Congress, APC), Peter Obi (Labour Party, LP) and Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP) are widely believed to be the frontrunners for next year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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