The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) has said there was no basis for objection to the affidavit
presented by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Gen Muhammadu Buhari, over the circumstances surrounding his certificates.
It also said that it does not have
the mandate to screen or reject candidates and stressed that its role was
simply to display the nominees of parties for claims and objections, noting
that only when there are objections will they revert to the parties to do the
needful.
The APC presidential candidate,
Buhari, did not submit his certificates and other credentials to INEC, saying
that the documents are with the military.
He however explained the development
in an affidavit dated November 24, 2014 which he deposed to before an Abuja
High Court.
But the chief press secretary to the
INEC chairman, Kayode Idow,u who insisted that he would not comment on
individual candidates said: “When parties file the nominees, the law requires
that INEC should display those nominees for claims and objections. If
objections are made to those claims, the commission reverts to the parties
because the statutory mandate is on the parties to nominate their candidates,
not for INEC to choose their candidates for them.
Source:- This Day Live