INEC unveil 36 years Election Calendar 2019-2055: H.E.Prince Frank Ukonga commend INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmud Yakubu @ the stakeholders' Meeting in Abuja.

H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga - National Chairman DA- Democratic Alternative Party commend INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmud Yakubu at INEC Stakeholder Meeting in Abuja

INEC unveil 36 years Election Calendar 2019-2055: H.E.Prince Frank Ukonga commend INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmud Yakubu @  the stakeholders' Meeting in Abuja.
The INEC quarterly stakeholders' Meeting  with the National Chairmen of Political Parties was held in Abuja at the Electoral Institute in the Central District of Abuja on the 28th of February 2018 and it was a gathering of the major stakeholders' in the Nigerian Political turfs. Virtually all Chairmen of Political Parties in the country attended this all important meeting to ruminate on pressing issues of how to move the Nation out of the woods. In particular the impasse between the Senate and INEC on the timetable and sequence of elections of 2019  general polls of the Nigerian Federations and other pressing matters.
INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmud Yakubu stormed the stakeholders by announcing the Presidential election dates for the next 36 years starting from 2019 presidential election slated  for February 18th and March 2; in 2023 the dates are February 18 and March 3; in 2027 the dates are February 20 and March 6; in 2031 it is February 15th and March 1, in 2035 it is February 17 and March 3, in 2039 it is February 19 and March 5,and in 2043 the dates are February 21 and March 7, in 2047 it is February 15 and March 2, in 2051 it is February 18 and March 1, in 2055 it is February 20 and March 6.
This was heralded by the entire stakeholders and Chairmen of Political Parties
H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga who is the National Chairman of DA- Democratic  Alternative Party commended the dexterity of the INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmud Yakubu saying " this  is a Mile stone in the annals of democratic dispensation in Nigeria and the global village, Nigeria is setting the pace addressed to entrench sustainable and viable democratic dispensation in Nigeria and the African Continent...this giant strides and the dexterity of  INEC has gone a long way to alley the fears and anxieties of stakeholders as to the future development of the political institution in Nigeria which would no longer be speculative, at last Democracy has come to stay...it is a reality..."
The INEC chairman Prof. Mahmud Yakubu said the idea is to "engender certainty in our electoral calendar ,allow for long term planning by the commission as well as stakeholders and brings our democracy in line with the best practice around the world." he further stressed that this would ensure stability and certainty in the country's democratic process as obtained in developed countries such as the United states where everybody knows the dates of presidential and general elections.