Section 29 Nigerian Electoral Act

Section 29 Electoral Act 2022 is about Submission of list of candidates and their affidavits by political parties. It is under Part IV (Procedure at Election) of the Act.

(1) Every political party shall, not later than 180 days before the date appointed for a general election
under this Act, submit to the Commission, in the prescribed Forms, the list of the candidates the party
proposes to sponsor at the elections, who must have emerged from valid primaries conducted by the
political party.

(2) The list or information submitted by each candidate shall be accompanied by an affidavit sworn to by
the candidate at the Federal High Court, High Court of a State, or Federal Capital Territory, indicating
that he or she has fulfilled all the constitutional requirements for election into that office.

(3) The Commission shall, within seven days of the receipt of the personal particulars of the candidate,
publish same in the constituency where the candidate intends to contest the election.

(4) Any person may apply to the Commission for a copy of nomination form, affidavit and any other
document submitted by a candidate at an election and the Commission shall, upon payment of a
prescribed fee, issue such person with a certified copy of the document within 14 days.

(5) Any aspirant who participated in the primaries of his political party who has reasonable grounds to
believe that any information given by his political party’s candidate in the affidavit or any document
submitted by that candidate in relation to his constitutional requirements to contest the election is false,
may file a suit at the Federal High Court against that candidate seeking a declaration that the information
contained in the affidavit is false.

(6) Where the Court determines that any of the information contained in the affidavit is false only as it
relates to constitutional requirements of eligibility, the Court shall issue an order disqualifying the
candidate and the sponsoring political party and then declare the candidate with the second highest
number of valid votes and who satisfies the constitutional requirement as the winner of the election.

(7) A candidate for an election shall, at the time of submitting the prescribed form, furnish the
Commission with an identifiable address in the state where he or she intends to contest the election at
which address all documents and court processes from either the Commission or any other person shall be served on him or her.

(8) A political party which presents to the Commission the name of a candidate who does not meet the
qualification stipulated in this section, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of
N10,000,000.