LG poll: Cross River releases schedule of activities

Cross River State Independent Electoral Commission has released a schedule of activities for the Local Government election fixed for May 24, 2023.

The schedule is contained in a statement by the Secretary to the Commission, Mr Bassey Ekuri, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar, on Saturday.

Activities for the council poll will kick off on October 1, 2022, with primaries of the various political parties, and end with the election and publication of election results on May 24, 2023.

According to Ekuri, the conduct of the party’s primaries, including the resolution of disputes arising from the primaries, is between October 1 and 21.

“Presentation of the list of candidates: collection, completion, and return of the CROSIEC form LGE 001 and 002 will also take place from Oct. 24 to Nov. 24.

“CROSIEC form LGE 003 (list of candidates whose particulars have been confirmed by the commission) is also to be submitted in the same period,” he said.

Ekuri added that the CROSIEC form LGE 004 (list of candidates whose particulars have been queried), will also be addressed within the period – Oct. 24 to Nov. 24.

The secretary said sales of nomination forms by the commission to the political parties had been fixed for between November 28 and December 2.

Validation of nomination particulars by the Electoral Officers and processing/validation of particulars of candidates by the commission is fixed for December 10, and between December 11 and 20 respectively.

Similarly, he said the publication of the final list of nomination particulars by the commission would be on December 26.

“Campaigns for the election will commence on Dec. 27, while submission of names of polling agents for the poll to the EOs by political parties will be from April 3 to 11, 2023.

“Publication of notice of poll by the commission is for May 20, 2023, and the last day of the campaign is May 23, 2023,” he said.

He said the election would witness an improvement over the last council poll in the state.

NAN