The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmud Yakubu, has called on political parties to carry out necessary checks before nominating candidates for elections.
The INEC chairman made the comment while speaking at the stakeholders’ validation conference on INEC’s Strategic Plan in Abuja, on Tuesday.
He lamented that parties in some cases nominate ex-convicts and people with forged certificates as candidates for election, noting that INEC lacked the powers to prevent such candidates emerging from primaries to contest elections.
