The Independent National Electoral Commission has said the next presidential election will hold on the second Saturday of February 2023.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the announcement in Abuja on Thursday at the inauguration of the Special Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution at the House of Representatives
INEC also called for laws to allow electronic voting, stricter punishment and special court for electoral offences ahead of 2023.
Yakubu noted that Nigeria was 855 days away from the 2023 presidential election, and urged the National Assembly to speed up the amendment of the Constitution and electoral reforms.
Yakubu said, “This is what happens in Ghana; every Ghanaian knows that every December 7 is Election Day. Every American knows that the first Tuesday of November of an election year is the Election Day. In Nigeria, it is the second Saturday of February in the election year.
“Therefore, when is the 2023 general election going to hold? It is the second Saturday of February of the election year. That means that from today till the 2023 presidential election, we have exactly 855 days.
“Between election and inauguration, there is time. So, between now and the next presidential election is 855 days, you have a very limited time for the Constitution amendment.”
He also called for the implementation of recommendations by various panels on political and electoral reforms.
INEC, in the same vein, called for more severe punishments for electoral offenders.
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