Nigeria: 61 Political Parties Move to Sue INEC Over Draft Election Guidelines

14 January 2019

Political parties numbering 61, are to file a suite today, at a Federal High Court in Abuja, against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to challenge what they term "manipulated" 2019 election guidelines.

The parties alleged that INEC had inserted new clauses in the guidelines which they argued would lead to "massive rigging" of the elections in favour of the government in power, if allowed to scale through.

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