Electoral Act: If you’re interested in 2023 polls resign – Gombe Gov tells appointees
Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Yahaya has ordered political appointees and other public servants seeking elective offices in the forthcoming parties’ primaries ahead of the 2023 elections to tender their resignation letters.
According a press statement signed on Friday, by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Ibrahim Njodi, the officials are expected to comply within the specified 30 days time frame.
Njodi, in the statement, cited the Electoral Act 2022 recently assented to by the President, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), which provides that political appointees aspiring to contest elections must resign their positions before the conduct of political parties’ primaries.
The partly read, “I am pleased to remind you that Mr. President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR has assented to the Electoral Act 2022 recently.
“In accordance with the provisions of the Act, the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) has released the time table and schedule of activities for the 2023 general elections. Specifically, it is stated that all political appointees and other public servants aspiring to contest for political offices are expected to resign their appointments thirty ( 30) days before parties’ primaries of the positions they wish to contest.”
The statement added that all resignation letters are to be submitted to the office of the Secretary to the State Government not later than the stipulated 30 days before the primary elections.