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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reached a decision to postpone the governorship and state assembly elections. The elections, initially scheduled to hold on March 11, has now been postponed to March 18, 2023. The postponement is due to the inability of the commission to promptly commence reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) it used for the presidential election. In a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, the court held that preventing the electoral […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the Presidential Election Petition Court to vary the orders that were granted to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively, to inspect materials used for the last presidential election. INEC, in a motion on notice filed on March […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has admitted that there were hitches in the presidential and National Assembly elections conducted on February 25 across the country. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, disclosed this on Saturday, at the meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) in Abuja, Nigeria. He told the RECs that it was […]
Continue ReadingMr. Peter Obi and his Labour Party (LP) have filed a motion before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Abuja, Nigeria, seeking leave (permission) to inspect election materials and obtain certified copies of documents in INEC’s custody. According to an online post shared by lawyer Inibehe Effiong, Obi and his Labour Party’s motion for inspection was […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the Saturday, February 25, presidential election. The Chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final result at exactly 4.10 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, said after days of collation of results from […]
Continue ReadingThe Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ekiti state has announced the results for the presidential election in the state and said the All Progressive Congress (APC) won. See below: A- 69 AA- 29 AAC- 108 ADC- 1337 ADP- 737 APC- 201, 494 APGA- 268 APM- 46 APP- 91 BP-46 LP- 11,397 NNPP- 264 NRM- 131 PDP- […]
Continue ReadingActivist, Mma Odi, has said that any observer group that scores INEC high in the conduct of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly election is a Yahoo-Yahoo observer and an enemy of Nigeria. Speaking on AriseTV Sunday afternoon, Oma said: “Any observer group that says INEC performed well with any grammer they used on […]
Continue ReadingA prominent member of a leading political party in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, Mr. Akinlabi Akinnaso has been killed by a security agent at INEC’s collation centre. Akinnaso, popularly known as Oluomo lost his life in the early hours of Sunday, February 26, after he was allegedly shot by one of the […]
Continue ReadingJustice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos has acceded to the request of the Labour Party (LP) to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from employing the services of Musliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo, the Chairman of the Lagos Parks and Garages, to distribute election materials in Lagos. The […]
Continue ReadingThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) held a mock accreditation exercise last week in 436 polling units across the country. The purpose was to test the functionality of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) ahead of the general election that begins next week Saturday with the presidential poll. Available reports indicate that it was largely […]
Continue ReadingOsun State office of INEC on Thursday in Osogbo dismissed media reports that its Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Mutiu Agboke, said there was over-voting during the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the state. Head of the Department, Voter Education, Publicity and Inclusivity in the office, Mr Adewale Francis, stated that the over-voting statement credited […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decided to extend the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards (popularly known as PVCs) by an additional week. The PVC collection that was scheduled to end on January 29, was extended till February 5, according to a statement by the INEC National Commissioner in […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced a further extension of the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards PVCs by one week. The commission had earlier extended the deadline for the collection of PVCs to Sunday January 29, however, the new deadline is February 5. In a statement released today, the National […]
Continue ReadingIn a released statement, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards until Sunday, January 29, 2023. INEC had earlier on fixed the collection deadline as Sunday, January 22, 2023. National INEC Commissioner, Mr. Festus Okoye said in a statement that the Commission is determined to […]
Continue ReadingHead of Department, Voter Education and Publicity of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Achumie Rex, has accused politicians of trying to hack into the commission’s server and also trying to manufacture the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine ahead of the 2023 election. Speaking on Wednesday, December 14, at a two-day workshop for civil society organisations […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has identified 23 personnel who carried out fake voter registrations. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu who spoke at the third quarterly meeting with political parties on Wednesday October 26, said after a rigorous clean-up of the data using the automated biometric identification system (ABIS), 2,780,756 (22.6%) of the registrants were identified as […]
Continue ReadingIn a suit suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1662/2022, twenty four Nigerians have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before an Abuja Federal High Court for “failing to give them and other seven million Nigerians adequate time and opportunity to complete their voter registration after they have carried out their registration online.” In the suit filed on […]
Continue ReadingMr. Ademola Adeleke Jackson Nurudeen, popularly referred to as Dancing Senator, has received his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The governor-elect of Osun state received the certificate from Osun INEC head office in Osogbo on Wednesday, July 20. The certificate presentation to Adeleke by the INEC National Commissioner, Supervising Osun, […]
Continue ReadingYou can see the reaction at the Adeleke’s house in Osun State at the moment that Senator Ademola Adeleke Jackson Nurudeen was declared by UNILAG VC, Prof Ogundipe, as the winner of the Osun State governorship election which took place on Saturday. Watch the video below:
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