The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Charles Soludo, on Sunday opened and maintained the lead in the Anambra State governorship election. Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), won 18 of the 20 local government areas for which results were declared by...
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By BABARA KALU, Akwa – The National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Oye, has expressed optimism that Nigeria can successfully adopt electronic voting as well as the electronic transmission of results. Mr Oye stated this on Sunday night while the collation of results from the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the collation of results for the Anambra State governorship election. INEC’s Chief Returning Officer for the election, Professor Florence Obi, announced this on Monday at the commission’s head office in Awka. Party agents, reporters, and observers among others had waited until...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Tuesday, November 9 for a supplementary election in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. Returning Officer for Saturday’s governorship election in the state, Professor Florence Obi, announced this in the early hours of Monday. The decision to hold supplementary elections...
Collation officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday said elections did not hold in Orumba North and Ihiala Local Government Areas during the Anambra governorship election which held on Saturday. Dr Michael Otu, a lecturer of Commercial Law from the University of Calabar, was the collation...
By BARBARA KALU, Akwa – Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APPGA), Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo is so far leading in the Anambra state gubernatorial election conducted by the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday. The results...
Security operatives of the Nigerian Army and Nigeria Police Force beef up security around the INEC office in Awka ahead of the collation of the results of the election. The collation exercise is scheduled to commence by 11 am as results from 19 of the 21 local governments have...
By BABARA KALU, Akwa – Yiaga Africa, an independent election observer group, said late arrival of electoral officials, materials, accreditation and voting, denied many electorates the right to vote in the Anambra governorship election. Yiaga Africa said this in a situational statement on the 2021 Anambra Gubernatorial Election held...
The Member Representing Orumba North and South Federal Constituency, Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo, has expressed happiness that the governorship election was held in spite of initial security challenges that greeted its conduct. Ezenwankwo, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, that the election was...
Anambra Deputy Governor, Dr Nkem Okeke, has displayed his ballot paper to other voters on Saturday before casting his vote. He said that he did this to dispel the rumour making the round that he had re-defected to his former party, the All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA). “I had...
By BABARA KALU, Akwa – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended voting exercise in the Anambra governorship election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for INEC in Anambra State, Dr Nkwachukwu Orji announced the extension of voting by one hour, from the previous 2:30pm to 3:30pm. Dr. Orji added...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Bosco Onunkwo, has called on INEC to extend the voting deadline at the on-going Anambra governorship election beyond 2.30 p.m. “I call on INEC to give us additional three hours to accommodate the high number of people who are...
Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has expressed shock over the technology breakdown of the Bimodal Verification Accreditation (BVA) system. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been experiencing technical challenges in the use of the...
Mr Valentine Ozigbo, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alongside Orjiugo, his wife, cast their vote at PU 010, Social Centre square, Amaesi Ward in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra at about 11am. Ozigbo, who voted after about 20 minutes of accreditation delay, expressed worry that all...
Late arrival of election materials and INEC officials resulted in a slow start of Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. INEC officials were yet to arrive at many polling units as at 9 a.m. Whereas officials of the electoral umpire were yet to...
Voting has commenced in the 2021 Anambra governorship elections. Some 18 political parties are on the ballot as the race to replace current Governor, Willie Obiano, comes to a head. Although there have been hiccups with electronic voting equipment in some polling units, the exercise is well underway in...
Anambra Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr C. Don Adinuba, has said a report in the public domain that people are leaving the state in large numbers is false. Adinuba said that instead, the opposite is the truth as a large number of people, especially qualified voters, are...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has earmarked N4.2 billion for Continuous Voter Registration in preparation for the 2023 general elections. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this when he appeared before the joint National Assembly Committee on INEC to defend the commission’s 2022 budget proposal on Friday. While...
After months of preparations and campaigning, 18 political parties are set to contest the Anambra governorship seat. The election is expected to take place across the state’s 21 local government areas. According to the 2006 Census, the State has a population of 4,055,048 but only 2,525,471 have registered to...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has directed all staff of the commission to ensure that every vote counts in the Saturday Anambra governorship election. Professor Yakubu gave the directive in his message to the Commission’s staff on Friday in...