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...
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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...
The Labour Party (LP) in Imo has raised the alarm over alleged plan by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold the November 11 election in polling units with zero voter registration.la o The Imo LP Chairman, Mr Callistus Ihejiagwa, made the claim at a news briefing...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has defended a supplementary budget of N18 billion at the National Assembly, largely aimed at addressing the issue of staff welfare and allowances. The commission’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, according to the INEC daily bulletin on Thursday in Abuja, led a team...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Thursday, affirmed the election of Sen. Mohammed Ndume and Sen. Kaka Lawan of Borno South and Central Senatorial Districts respectively. The three-member panel, presided by Justice Biobele Georgewill, held that the two appeals against the lawmakers lacked merit. The News Agency of...
The Appeal Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, vacated the judgment of a Federal High Court, Abuja which nullified Mr Timipre Sylva’s candidacy for All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship election. The three-member panel, in a unanimous judgment read by Justice Binta Zubairu, held that Mr...
The 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N2.1 trillion expeditiously scaled second reading on Tuesday in the Senate. President Bola Tinubu had written the Senate seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and other urgent issues. The President...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it has distributed a total of 5,169,692 Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, in the three states ahead of the November 11 off-cycle governorship elections in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states National Commissioner and Chairman,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to pursue constitutional and legal reforms that would explicitly recognize “Nigerians’ right to vote and to vote securely in free, fair and honest elections as a fundamental right.” This request...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Wednesday, organised a one-day capacity building for voter education providers aimed at ensuring increased voter turnout during the November 11 governorship election in Imo. Declaring the workshop open, the State’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Sylvia Agu, said the voter education...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) allocated votes to Gov. Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2023 governorship election in Nasarawa state. In a statement by Alhaji Ibrahim Hamza, PDP spokesperson in the state, said...