Iner notification to Senator Natasha of Recome Petition

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INC) has notified Senator Senator Natasha Akpoti-Auduaghan of receiving a petition to remember it from the National Assembly.

The Commission revealed it in a declaration by Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner and Incen President, Committee for the education of information and voters, Wednesday in Abuja.

Olumekun also confirmed that further on the declaration issued by the Inc Tuesday, the Commission had received contact addresses of the representatives of the signatories who tried to remember Natasha.

He stated that the telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of the signatories representatives had been provided to the INCC in a letter addressed to the President of the Commission, dated 26 March.

“As foreseen in clause 2 (a) of the regulations and guidelines of the Commission for recall 2024, a letter was written to warn that the senator tried to be remembered on receiving the petition and delivered to his official address.

“The same letter was copied to the President of the Senate and published on the Commission website.

“The next step is to examine the list of signatories presented by the signatories to ascertain that the petition is signed by more than half (over 50 %) of the voters recorded in the electoral college.

“This will be done in the next few days. The result, which will be made public, will determine the next step to the Commission,” he said.

Olumekun reassured the Nigerians that the recall process would have been open and transparent.

A group of recorded voters from the Central Senatorial District of Kogi has, on Monday, presented a petition to the Inc, urging the commission to start the recall of Akpoti-Auduaghan, senator who represents the Senatorial District.

The constituents, in the letter signed by the main signatory, Salihu Habib, and presented to the general quarter of the inc, Abuja, said they no longer had confidence in Akpoti-Usaghan as a senator and representative in the national assembly.
In the meantime, Inert had, Tuesday, confirmed the receipt of the petition, accompanied by six bags of documents that is said to have been collected by over half of the 474,554 registered voters of the Senatorial District.

Olumekun declared in a declaration that was said that the figure spread in 902 electoral units in 57 registration areas (departments) in the five areas of the local government of Adavi, Ajaokuta, Ogori/Maingo, Okehi and Okene.

He assured the Nigerians that the Commission would follow his legal framework in the treatment of the recall petition.

Olyumekun, however, said that the immediate observation of the Commission was that the representatives of the signatories did not provide their contacts in the letter of accompanying the petition.

These, he said, included their addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses through which they could be contacted, as required in clause 1 (F) of the Commission’s regulations and guidelines.

“The indicated address was” Oknene, Kogi State “, which is not a defined position to contact the signatories.

“Only the telephone number of” The Lead Petitioner “is provided, compared to the number of all the other representatives of the signatories,” said Olyumekun.