Nigeria’s much anticipated 2023 presidential election has yielded an outcome, leaving behind a thick smoke trail of disquiet and global infamy. Mr. Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has since been announced the winner of the February 25 election. At home, the emotions are unevenly mixed...
INEC
Prof Charles Adias, INEC’s State Collation Officer for Rivers at the Feb. 25 presidential and National Assembly elections raised alarm again on Sunday in Yenagoa over unending threat to his life . Prof Adias, Vice-Chancellor at the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa, suspended results collation during the elections on account...
Mr Ade Omole, the Director of Diaspora Directorate, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), has called on opposition political leaders to embrace Sen. Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president-elect. He made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Omole urged...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Cross River State Chapter has congratulated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the peaceful conduct of the National Assembly and Presidential Elections in Cross River State. IPAC also congratulated Senator-elect, Asuquo Ekpeyong, a candidate of the All Progressive...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has scheduled the issuance of certificates of return to elected members of the National Assembly for Tuesday and Wednesday. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Saturday morning, while giving his address at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in Abuja....
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)...
The Inter Party Advisory Council, (IPAC) on Saturday decried poor turnout of voters in the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections in Cross River. During in a press conference in Calabar, Mr Anthony Attah, Chairman of IPAC in Cross River, said out of over 1.7 million registered voters,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers has released winners of the National Assembly election conducted on Feb. 25 in Rivers. INEC announced the results in a statement issued to newsmen by the commission’s Public Affairs Officer, Mrs Geraldine Ekelemu, in Port Harcourt on Saturday. The commission announced...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit seeking the removal of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Bello Matawalle, from the Zamfara governorship election. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the case of the plaintiffs lacked merit. The News Agency of Nigeria...
Seven state governments controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have withdrawn the suit they filled against the federal government over the conduct and subsequent collation and announcement of the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The Notice of Discontinuance signed by their lawyer, Mr. Mike Ozekhome SAN...
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says there is no law making it mandatory for INEC to transmit electoral results electronically. Mr Dele Alake, Special Adviser on Media and Communications at the PCC made the declaration in Abuja on Friday when he spoke at...
The Court of Appeal on Friday granted leave to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, to inspect documents used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the Feb. 25 Presidential election. The permission was sequel to...
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has alleged plans by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to compromise the Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and disrupt the governorship and State Assembly elections in Enugu. But the PDP responded by saying the allegation is “the crying of a drowning man”. The APGA...
Mrs. Helen Mbakwe, a candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), said she lost the Senatorial election due to the blurred logo of the party. Mbakwe, who contested for the Anambra Central Senatorial seat, attributed her inability to secure the seat to none identification of the party’s logo...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared PDP candidates – Mr Benson Agadaga, Sen. Seriake Dickson and Mr Benson Kombowei, the winners of Saturday’s senatorial election in Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dickson is a serving lawmaker, Agadaga is a former Chief of Staff...
. Six States of the Federation have dragged the Federal Government before the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the last February 25, 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The plaintiffs in the originating summons marked: SC/CV/354/2023, are specifically asking for an order of the apex court “directing a wholistic...
Lagos PDP Candidates in the just-concluded National Assembly Election on Thursday called on INEC to audit and review all collated results with Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the Lagos West and Lagos Central Senatorial Districts. Addressing a news conference in Lagos, the candidates jointly pointed out that they...
The Ohaneze Ndigbo in Lagos has declared support for the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, come March 11. The President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, High Chief Sunday Ossai, made the declaration on Thursday in Ikeja, during a Joint news briefing by the Lagos State Leaders of Thoughts...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says March 11’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections will hold as scheduled. The commission gave the assurance in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in Abuja on...
It is fundamental to state at this outset that there is no presidential election yet conducted in 2023 and that this is one moment when one would wish he were not a Nigerian. INEC started the process and there was voting but the collation of the results veered off...