Postpone Elections or Include Us on New Ballot Papers, New Party Tells INEC

Young Democratic Party,? a new party which a court compelled the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise, has said the electoral body should either reprint the ballot papers to include it for the coming general elections or postpone the polls.

The stance of the party may have boosted ongoing efforts to scuttle the forthcoming elections. A Federal High Court in Abuja, Wednesday, ordered INEC to recognise YDP and accommodate it in the forthcoming elections that are about four weeks away.

Addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday, the party’s Publicity Secretary, Ugo Nwofor, said INEC “has just two options,” adding that the party was ready for the elections. The conditions, according to Mr. Nwofor, include reprinting the ballot papers to accommodate the party and its candidates.? But if INEC does not have “appropriation for logistics?” for reprinting the ballot papers, Mr. Nwofor issued the second option which was that, “lNEC should postpone the elections to accommodate our party.”

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Preparations for the March 28 and April 11 elections may have suffered a major setback, as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to include the Young Democratic Party, YDP in the lists of its duly registered political parties.

 By this judgement, INEC would be required to reprint new ballot papers for the elections which is three weeks away. Justice Ahmed Muhammed delivered the judgment in Abuja on Wednesday.
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