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It was heart-melting to see elderly people and physically challenged people in Anambra State coming out last Saturday to vote. Before the November 6, 2021 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, the fear many people had was that insecurity and fear could work against the conduct of the election. It was feared that many people would […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday 6th November 2021, Anambra State will make history as the first Governorship election in Nigeria in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will deploy the use of Biometric Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) device. The BVAS, deployed in its pilot phase for the Isoko South 1 State Constituency Bye-election in Delta State on […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has pledged to put an end to election rigging in Nigeria using new technology. According to the Head of ICT, INEC office, Awka, Chukwuemeka Nnaji, INEC has devised what it called Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) as a way of reducing human interference in the electoral process. Speaking during […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted it has the capacity to transmit election results electronically from remote areas across Nigeria. Speaking on Channels Television breakfast show on Saturday, Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee Chairman, said the Commission’s position was clear. Okoye said: “We have uploaded results […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate has rejected Lauretta Onochie as a national commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Senate, however, confirmed five other nominees, including Muhammad Sani Kallah (Katsina), Kunle Ajayi (Ekiti), Saidu Ahmad (Jigawa), Baba Bila (North-East) and Prof. Abdullahi Zuru (North-West). Their confirmation followed the adoption of the report of Senate committee on […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate on Thursday started the screening of nominees for appointment as National Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The nominees, including Lauretta Onochie, one of the aides of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, appeared in the Senate for the exercise. Onochie arrived at the Senate wing of the National Assembly accompanied by the […]
Continue ReadingDestruction of government buildings in Nigeria continues as two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi State have been set ablaze by unidentified persons. The offices are located in Ebonyi and Ezza North Local Government Areas of the state. Although no casualties were recorded but there were extensive damages to the building […]
Continue ReadingFrom now on at the presidential election petition tribunal, foremost constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze SAN, will be leading the legal team of Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in their petition against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nwabueze, who came in on wheelchair at the commencement of hearing on Thursday, announced […]
Continue ReadingThe main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of allegedly sponsoring an “amorphous group” to support the denial by the Commission of the existence of a server. In a statement released on Tuesday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said its investigation revealed that […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday said that results of the 2019 general elections were not transmitted electronically to its server, stressing that the Commission only experimented the technology during some staggered elections held in 2018. The Commission said that the clarification was necessary because of rising controversies on the transmission of 2019 Presidential […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally issued former Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, a certificate of return for winning the February 23rd Senatorial election in Imo West. Okorocha was declared winner of the February 23 election but the returning officer, Innocent Ibeabuchi, said he was forced to make the declaration. The Certificate of […]
Continue ReadingOne of the indelible memories of the period of Nigeria’s return to democracy firmly etched in my mind was the 1999 Peoples Democratic Party primary election in Jos, Plateau State. I still recall, distinctly, how the votes were counted and broadcast on live TV. Everyone who stayed awake through the night endured the voice of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has demanded the immidiate declaration of Atiku Abubakar, as the president-elect, saying the election results across the country have shown that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate has won. Frank warned INEC not to succumb to pressures coming from President Muhammadu […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’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 […]
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