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NIGERIA - According to INEC, more than a million people of voting age in the northeast are disenfranchised and will be unable to vote in the upcoming presidential elections in February 2015.
Meanwhile, it is anticipated that the 2015 elections might deteriorate into uncanny violence and bloodshed.
Seeing as Nigeria's 2010 electoral act prevents people from voting elsewhere apart from in the constituency where they registered and seeing as several Nigerians have been displaced by the Boko haram extremists, several Nigerians will be unable to cast their votes unless a change is effected in the Federal law.
"Unless the act is amended, the IDP (internally displaced person) issue could expose the election to legal challenges by the losing party," Kayode Idowu, an INEC spokesman said on Monday.
The National assembly, which has the power to change this law, will not be meeting again until January, which is only a month before the election.
At any rate, the February 14, 2014 election is expected to be the most competitive since democracy began in 1999.
The candidates are:
On the PDP side, we have incumbents Goodluck Jonathan and Namani Sambo.
On the APC side, Muhammadu Buhari and Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
Meanwhile, it is anticipated that the 2015 elections might deteriorate into uncanny violence and bloodshed.
Seeing as Nigeria's 2010 electoral act prevents people from voting elsewhere apart from in the constituency where they registered and seeing as several Nigerians have been displaced by the Boko haram extremists, several Nigerians will be unable to cast their votes unless a change is effected in the Federal law.
"Unless the act is amended, the IDP (internally displaced person) issue could expose the election to legal challenges by the losing party," Kayode Idowu, an INEC spokesman said on Monday.
The National assembly, which has the power to change this law, will not be meeting again until January, which is only a month before the election.
At any rate, the February 14, 2014 election is expected to be the most competitive since democracy began in 1999.
The candidates are:
On the PDP side, we have incumbents Goodluck Jonathan and Namani Sambo.
On the APC side, Muhammadu Buhari and Professor Yemi Osinbajo.