{"id":56488,"date":"2022-03-11T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=56488"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:31:57","slug":"inec-rejects-apcs-letter-of-invitation-to-nec-meeting-says-it-is-against-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=56488","title":{"rendered":"INEC rejects APC&#8217;s letter of invitation to NEC meeting, says it is against law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the sack of Governor Mai Mala Buni&#8217;s leadership, it is not yet uhuru for the embattled ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected an invitation to be at party&#8217;s\u00a0 National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting slated for 17th of March, pointing out that the letter was not signed by the party&#8217;s chairman and secretary.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated 9th March 2022, in response to APC&#8217;s letter of invitation, the INEC Secretary, Rose Anaran-Anthony,\u00a0 observed that the APC letter of invitation was not signed by the national chairman and national secretary of the Caretaker\/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) contrary to the provisions of Article 1.1.3. of the Commission\u2019s Regulations and Guidelines of Political Party Operations (2018).<\/p>\n<p>INEC adds: &#8220;Furthermore, the APC is reminded of the provision in Section 82(1) of the Electoral Act 2022 which requires at least 21 days notice\u00a0of the convention , congress, conference, or meeting convened for the purpose of\u00a0 \u2018merger\u2019 and electing members of its executive committees, other governing bodies or nominating candidates for any elective offices.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While hoping these issues are noted for compliance, please accept the assurances of the Commission\u2019s warm regards,\u201d the INEC letter concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that President\u00a0 Muhammadu Buhari ordered the sack of Buni and National Secretary, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, according to Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>A new acting national secretary, Prof.Tahir Mamman, was named to replace Akpanudoedehe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the sack of Governor Mai Mala Buni&#8217;s leadership, it is not yet uhuru for the embattled ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected an invitation to be at party&#8217;s\u00a0 National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting slated for 17th of March, pointing out that the letter was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[189,154,835],"class_list":["post-56488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-inec","tag-nec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}