By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA—Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it would, henceforth, wield the big stick on any political party that overshoots the legal ceiling for campaign funding.
This is as the commission revealed that about eight million Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, were yet to be collected by their respective owners.
“We haven’t made much progress in the last two years but we have made elaborate arrangements with the states to ensure that the cards are collected,” said Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the commission’s chairman.
Yakubu spoke when the European Union Election Follow-up Mission to Nigeria, Civil Society Organisations and other stakeholders compared notes with the INEC at a roundtable organised by European Union delegation…
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