The House of Representatives at its plenary session of Thursday, 3rd November 2016 called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately conduct legislative elections in sixty-six (66) State Constituencies and carry out proper delineation of electoral constituencies in 19 States across the Federation.<\/p>\n
Moving the motion under matters of urgent public importance, Hon. Kingsley Chinda (PDP: Rivers) noted that INEC\u2019s failure to carryoutproper delineation of electoral constituencies in 19 States amounted to a breach of Section 71(a) and (b) and Sections 112, 113, 114(1) and (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended)<\/em><\/strong>. Hon. Chinda also emphasized that INEC\u2019s actions violated Section 91 of the Constitution, <\/em><\/strong>which provides for the composition of a State House of Assemblyand guaranteescitizens adequate representation and participation in their respective State Houses of Assembly.<\/p>\n The House of Representatives also resolved to urge INEC to ensure that the affected 19 States were delineated. The States comprise of Anambra, Akwa-Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Delta, Edo, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Kogi, Niger, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Oyo, Rivers and Sokoto.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The House of Representatives at its plenary session of Thursday, 3rd November 2016 called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately conduct legislative elections in sixty-six (66) State Constituencies and carry out proper delineation of electoral constituencies in 19 States across the Federation. Moving the motion under matters of urgent public importance, Hon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"PLAC","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/olumide-adebayo\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/inec-300x167.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 4, 2016","modified":"Updated on November 4, 2016"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 4, 2016 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on November 4, 2016 12:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}