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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not be allowed to participate in any elections except the Presidential poll in Rivers and Zamfara States. INEC boss, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday. Yakubu’s position comes despite a letter written to INEC by […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has announced the time to expect result declaration of the 2019 Presidential Election. INEC assured that the results would not take longer than the 2015 elections, in spite of the number of presidential candidates, size of the result sheets and increased voter population. Professor Mahmood Yakubu said this on […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s INEC has declared that although the rejected bill would have addressed controversies that trailed the 2015 exercise especially the place of technology and others that the amendments seek to address, Nigeria can still have good elections with the extant Act. Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, addressed reporters on the […]
Continue ReadingThe Court of Appeal Benin Division, Nigeria, on Friday, granted the prayers of five prisoners seeking the order of the court to direct the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to include all prisoners in the voter register. Justice S. Oseji, delivered the lead judgment on behalf of Justice Helen Ogunwumiju. The appeal was filed by […]
Continue ReadingBy now, the more discerning Nigerian should have realised that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government is not interested in creating the enabling environment for conducting even a semblance of free and fair elections. Instead, it is just interested in getting its way by hook or by crook. It is not interested in deepening the […]
Continue ReadingElection Petition Tribunal constituted to hear the petitions arising from the Osun State governorship election has granted an ex parte order to Senator Ademola Adeleke, restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from altering election results as well as information contained in the card reader machines and other documents used for the poll. The tribunal, […]
Continue ReadingThe Osun State election is one of the happenings in recent times that will definitely leave its print on the sands of time. The election, which took place on September 22, 2018 recorded a large turnout of voters who came out to exercise their franchise as against the recent speculations of voter apathy. Failure to […]
Continue ReadingCoalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies of working for the All Progressive Congress (APC) during the Osun governorship rerun election. Its spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere, in a statement on Thursday, said the crisis that occured in 1983 over election manipulation will be a child’s play […]
Continue ReadingIn an emergency meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors held in Abuja on Monday, they stated in their communique that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been working for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The Governors said Nigeria’s electoral umpire was conducting itself as a tool of the APC-led federal government […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Wednesday, ordered Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris to produce the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Justice Stephen Pam ordered the police boss to arrest Yakubu and produce him in court at the next adjourned date. The refusal of the INEC Chairman to […]
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