Sorting and counting of votes have commenced in many polling units in Bayelsa after voting in the governorship election ended at 2.30pm. At PU 10, Agric Meeting Hall, Attissa 1, Yenagoa, the voting process ended at 2.30pm while sorting of ballot papers commenced at 2.35pm in the...
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Voting in the ongoing Bayelsa governorship poll commenced early across polling units in Kolokuma/Opkuma Local Government Area with Gov. Douye Diri casting his vote before 9a.m. Diri speaking after voting at his Kalamaowei Ward 6 polling unit, said the process was smooth and seamless. He applauded the Independent...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has commended INEC and security operatives for their conduct at Saturday’s off-cycle governorship election in the state. Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election, Alhaji Usman Ododo, gave similar commendation. Bello spoke after voting at his polling unit in Okene...
Vigilant security operatives in Imo, on Saturday, foiled an attempt by alleged political thugs to abduct INEC officials and cart away election materials. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident happened at a Registration Area Center in Amaimo, Ikeduru Local Government Area. It was learnt...
By JOHN ONAH, Owerri – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked report alleging that the commission has withdrawn the password for the uploaded election results from the Local Government Supervisors in Imo. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, debunked the reports...
By JOHN ONAH, Owerri — The governorship election in Owerri the Imo State capital on Saturday, witnessed a low turned of voters which many residents attributed to lost of confidence on the part of leadership. Although, the exercise, which was relatively peaceful in all the places monitored...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, urged a Federal High Court, Abuja not to grant the ex-parte motion filed by Alhaji Lamidi Apapa-led Labour Party (LP), seeking to replace the party’s governorship candidate in Imo. INEC, in its affidavit to show cause pursuant to the court...
By JOHN ONAH, Imo – As all arrangements are in top gear towards a successful conduct of off cycle governorship election in Imo state, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Friday that it was far ahead of the challenges faced during the presidential election in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said two million registered voters are expected to vote in the Saturday off-cycle governorship election in Kogi. The election will hold in 3,508 poling units, spread across the 21 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. The LGAs included Adavi, Ajaokuta,...
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday distributed sensitive election materials to all the eight local government areas in Bayelsa ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. Head of Voter Education and Publicity at INEC’s State Headquarters, Mr Wilfred Ifogah, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa. He...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday began the deployment Ad hoc staff and distribution of sensitive materials to the various local government areas for Saturday’s off-circle governorship election in Kogi. The INEC Kogi Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Gabriel Longpet, disclosed this to the News Agency...
No fewer than 18 political parties taking part in Saturday’s Governorship poll in Imo have signed a peace accord to eschew violence before, during and after the exercise. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the peace accord was facilitated by the National Peace Committee (NPC). In...
Since the return of democracy in 1999, several elections have been conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), though not without reservations, hues and cries by political actors, analysts and watchers. Of utmost concern to most Nigerians is the fact that every election since then has been...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deployed nine additional Residents Electoral Commissioners (REC) in Imo for Saturday’s governorship election. The Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at a stakeholders’ meeting in Owerri on Monday. The meeting was attended by governorship candidates, chairmen and secretaries...
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has begged politicians in Kogi to give peace a chance for a peaceful, successful and credible governorship election on Nov. 11. The INEC made the appeal during a one-day stakeholders meeting on Tuesday in Lokoja. Yakubu, who was...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed confidence of winning the Saturday’s Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship election. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, said this at news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that apart from being PDP strongholds, the party’s governorship candidates in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In continuation of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) preparations for the three off-cycle Governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States, the Commission has made available two publications on the forthcoming polls. This is contained in a statement by the National...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the principal opposition party, should have had the simplest time winning the Nigerian presidential election in 2023. Muhammadu Buhari’s unprecedentedly bad and divisive leadership served as a powerful campaign against the All Progressives Congress, APC. To effortlessly retake control of the centre, the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured that it is 90 per cent ready for the Nov. 11 governorship election in Kogi.i The Kogi INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Gabriel Longpet, made this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on telephone in Lokoja...