The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, says the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, denied its request for the access code required to upload the names of its candidates to the commission’s nomination portal.
This is as the party prepares to challenge a recent court judgment ordering its deregistration.
The development came following a Federal High Court judgment instructing INEC to deregister the NDC.
National spokesman of the party, Osa Director, while speaking on the development, said the party had approached INEC to obtain the access code needed to complete the online submission of its candidates, but was unable to secure it.
He said that officials of the electoral commission informed the party that they would “get back” to them, leaving the NDC unable to complete the mandatory upload before the court’s deregistration order.
“We approached INEC to collect the access code to upload the names of our candidates to the INEC portal. They told us that they will get back to us,” the NDC spokesman said.
According to him, the party’s inability to upload its candidates should not be interpreted as a failure on its part, insisting that the delay resulted from the commission’s refusal to provide the necessary access credentials.
He further revealed that the party would return to INEC to make another request while simultaneously taking legal steps to suspend the enforcement of the court judgment.
“We will go back there by tomorrow. I believe by tomorrow we must have filed a stay of execution in court,” he added.
