2023: INEC To Release Guidelines In April

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, says the regulations and guidelines for the 2023 general elections will be ready 10 months before the election.
The elections will commence in February 2022 which is an indication that INEC plans to release the guidelines before the end of April.
This is contained in the INEC Daily Bulletin issued on Tuesday.
Yakubu gave the hint when he received a delegation from John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Abuja.
The INEC chairman recalled that In 2019, the commission was constrained by time due to the uncertainty that trailed the electoral legal framework.
He said, that saw the commission signing off on the regulations and guidelines on January 19, 2019, few weeks to the election.
“But we hope that this time around, we will sign off on the regulations and guidelines at least 10 months before the next general election, which is very good progress for us.”
Speaking further on the commission’s source of power to develop the guidelines and regulations, the INEC Chairman said the commission was happy with the assent of President Muhammadu Buhari to the Electoral Act.
“We now have a new electoral law, on the basis of which we commenced work on the regulations and guidelines.
“Electoral Act cannot say everything, so the National Assembly donates part of its power to INEC to make Regulations and guidelines and these regulations and guidelines have forms of subsidiary legislation.”
He further disclosed that INEC had virtually finished the processes.
“Our Election Project Plan (EPP) is ready and about to be published, the Strategic Plan is already completed and published.
“We also publish and gazette the guidelines and send the three documents to the stakeholders and general public next month.”
Earlier in his remarks, the President of John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, John Palfrey, congratulated INEC on the successes achieved in areas where it made recommendations after the 2019 general elections.