By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has on Tuesday, sworn-in nine (9) out of the newly appointed Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs). Mahmood disclosed that the tenth REC-designate will be sworn-in next month on the expiry of the...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will soon commence the prosecution of 1,076 electoral offenders arrested in 35 states across the country during the 2023 general election. A credible source in the commission on Wednesday told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that...
Eighteen political parties featuring in the Saturday’s Kogi governorship election have signed a peace accord, ahead of the poll. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the parties were the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Labour Party...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has urged staff members of the commission to remain non-partisan and maintain their integrity, ahead of the Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship election. Yakubu said this when he visited some INEC offices to...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Friday, met with various security agencies in Imo to strategise on security for the November 11 governorship election. Addressing members of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) in Owerri, Yakubu said the meeting...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured that it will leverage the lessons learned in the 2023 General Election to ensure that the Governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi states scheduled for November 11, 2023, are conducted in full compliance with...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Nigeria Medium and Large-Scale Printers League has lauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu for Patronising Local Printing Industry and for the exceptional privilege of printing all electoral materials locally for the just concluded 2023 General Election. ...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as part of its on-going review process of the 2023 General Election, met with Collation/Returning Officers to discuss issues of concern about the election, including those raised by some Nigerians with regards to the result management. The...
Ms Ijeoma Osamor, Broadcast Journalist with DAAR Communications Plc on Friday testified in the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC). Osamor, who anchors a programme in the Africa Independent Television (AIT) “Democracy Today” was subpoenaed as ‘7th witness (PW 7) for Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) . Obi and...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmood has tendered documents before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in respect of the petition of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The documents were tendered on Thursday through Mrs Morenikeji Tairu, Deputy Director,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has been urged to remove Mr. Mahmood Yakubu as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The former President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, made the call in a statement on Wednesday by his media aide,...
By NANA AISHA, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Police Command has debunked rumours emanating from video reports that the residence of Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was attacked by hoodlums in the state. The Spokesman of the Command, SP Ahmed Wakil, dismissed the...
Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), an NGO on Sunday rejected agitations that INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu should resign his appointment. Its National President, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, stated in Lagos that the conspiracy against INEC after the Feb. 25 presidential and National Assembly polls was baseless. “We have very...
he Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to desist from making libelous allegations against the person of its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, gave the advice on Friday in Abuja, while responding to PDP’s...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the resignation, arrest and investigation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu over alleged manipulation of the February 25 presidential election result. In a keen contest, PDP presidential candidate and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar...
Please permit me to start with response to a twist and contortion done by the lying online medium called Sahara Reporters to my article last week. I had written under the headline, For PMB, it’s Nigeria or Nothing, and the point I made was that President Muhammadu Buhari had...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday issued Certificates of Return to winners of the February 25, 2023 Senatorial elections in Nigeria The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu made the presentation at the National Collation Centre in Abuja. Yakubu had on Saturday said winners were declared for 423...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has assured Nigerians that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) will be used in the forthcoming governorship and state legislature elections. Yakubu gave the assurance on Saturday in a meeting with all state Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs)...
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) says the 2023 general elections will hold as scheduled. Yakubu said this on Wednesday in Abuja when he fielded questions from State House Correspondents after he briefed the Federal Executive Council (FEC)on level of preparedness for the...
The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines have never failed and will not fail Nigerians at the 2023 general elections. The declaration was made in Abuja on Saturday by INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, while assessing activities at polling units in the FCT where mock accreditation of voters were...