The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, on Friday explained that the tenure of the current local government and council chairmen will end in June 2026 and not 2025. To this end, Yakubu explained that INEC will not conduct local council elections in 2025.
Yakubu said the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 with respect to the tenure of Area Council Chairmen in the Federal Capital Territory FCT, guarantee a four-year tenure for the Chairmen and Councilors, not the three years provided in the Electoral Act 2010. Speaking during a meeting with the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, in Abuja, Yakubu noted that the tenure of the current chairmen and councillors would lapse in June 2026.
'This is one of the important provisions of the Electoral Act 2022. The Act came into force on Friday 25th February 2022, two weeks after the last Area Council elections in the FCT. By the time the elected Chairmen and Councillors were sworn in four months later on 14th June 2022, they took their oath of allegiance and oath of office on the basis of the new electoral Act which provides for a four-year tenure. Consequently, their tenure therefore expires in June 2026.
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