The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said after a review of the signatures for the recall of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as the Senator Representing Kogi Central, it has determined that the petitions lack credibility and therefore does not meet the standards required.
INEC’s Chairman, Voters Education, Sam Olumekun, said out of the 474,544 voters at Natasha’s constituency who signed the petition, no address or phone contacts were found.
“The Commission’s immediate observation is that the representatives of the petitioners did not provide their contact address, telephone number(s) and e-mail address(es) in the covering letter forwarding the petition through which they can be contacted as provided in Clause 1(f) of our Regulations and Guidelines.
“The address given is “Okene, Kogi State”, which is not a definite location for contacting the petitioners. Only the telephone number of “the lead petitioner” is provided as against the numbers of all the other representatives of the petitioners.”
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