The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu has declared February 18, 2023 as the date for the next presidential elections.
He made the disclosure at the inauguration of the House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review.
Yakubu, at the inauguration of the House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review, urged the National Assembly to work speedily on the exercise, ahead of the polls.
He reiterated INEC’s commitment to free and fair elections through new technology.
The speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, said the constitution review is important to “identify those areas where the laws of our land have not lived up to expectations” and fix the gaps.
“We are commencing this constitutional review process at a time of great and ongoing upheaval in our country.
New challenges emerge daily from every corner. Some of these challenges are of our own making, and others, we could not have foreseen or been prepared for”.
“Whichever may be the case, the Nigerian people look up to us as a government to proffer solutions that work, to do the heavy lifting of writing a new constitution, one better suited to our current aspirations and reflecting our vision of the future.”
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