Ahead of 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that there will be no going on the use of technology. In a statement on Wednesday by the commission’s chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu said that INEC’s allegiance and loyalty are to Nigeria and Nigerians who want free, fair, credible, and verifiable elections supported by technology which guarantees Read More
The leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has warned the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu ahead of 2023 presidential election. The popular cleric on Friday, warned against interference of political parties on the usage of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, during the 2023 elections, adding that the INEC chair must prevent interference Read More
The Conference of Civil Society of Nigeria has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to tinker with the 2023 election timetable for governorship elections to come before Presidential election. Recall that INEC had scheduled the Presidential election for February 25, 2023, while governorship and state assembly elections will hold on March 11, 2023. However, addressing a world press conference Read More
Nigeria Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) have moved against 23 of their staff who were identified as been behind the fake registrations and compromise of voters registration exercise popularly called Omuma Magic which the opposition Coalition CUPP via its spokesperson, Imo Ugochinyere bursted and exposed few weeks ago. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, Wednesday at the third quarterly meeting with political parties said Read More
Ahead of the 2023 general election, a frontline Civil Society Organisations, Partners for Electoral Reform (PER) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to urgently set up a team to investigate alleged plot by some politicians to suspend the use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and remove the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmopd Yakubu. The election Read More
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, an Application known as Wardchat has been unveiled to ensure free and fail election. The upcoming elections in 2023 will be the first general election under the nation’s new electoral legislation, signed into law in February 2022. The new Electoral Act allows for advanced technological deployment in the electoral process, including the electronic transmission Read More
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has warned against alleged move by some senators loyal to some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, plotting to ensure the removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, ahead of the 2023 general election. CUPP in a statement Sunday in Abuja by its spokesman, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, Read More
The Arewa Citizens Watch for Good Governance has apologized to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, over reports in the media calling for his sack. The group, in a statement by its Secretary and Publicity Secretary, Musa Muhammad and Umar Farouk Abdullahi, Wednessday in Abuja, acknowledged they were alledgedly approached by officers of the Read More
The plot to sack the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, is meant to thwart the efforts the commission put in place to ensure the success of 2023 general elections. The Ohanaeze Youths Movement, in a statement by its Secretary General, Nwada Ike Chiamaka, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja. The group said: “We know for Read More
The Nasarawa state commissioner of Police, CP Adesina Soyemi, has assured the residents of the state of peaceful elections in the state ahead of 2023 general election. CP Soyemi stated this in Lafia, Saturday, at a meeting with all registered political parties in the state in preparation for political campaigns. He explained that all security agencies in the state were Read More
The Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) has warned against plots by some politicians to frustrate efforts of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), stop the use of Biomodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) and remove its Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, saying such move may truncate the forthcoming general elections in 2023. The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) had earlier raised Read More
A staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra state Mr Duruocha Osita Joel has been found dead. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee or INEC, Barr. Festus Okoye on Friday disclosed that on Wednesday, 28th September 2022, the Commission’s Administrative Secretary in Anambra State, Mr. Okwuonu Jude, reported the disappearance of a staff, Mr. Read More
Ahead of 2023 general election, the Senate president, Ahmad Lawan, has accepted the judgment of a Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State. The court on Wednesday, affirmed Bashir Machina as the authentic candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC) for Yobe North Senatorial District. Machina had approached the Federal High Court seeking an order to compel the Independent Read More
The Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) has hailed the Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri for throwing out an appeal filed against the judgment of the Federal High Court which declared that the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, did not breach the Code of Conduct Bureau assets declaration form. In a unanimous judgment delivered Read More
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept and publish Godswill Akpabio’s name as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Akwa Ibom North-west District for the 2023 elections. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the judgement on Thursday in Abuja. The court, according to the report, held that INEC acted Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the breakdown of the 1.1 million voters it delisted. INEC on Monday had stated that out of the 2, 523,458 fresh registrants that registered between 28th June 2021 and 14th January 2022, 1,126,359 records were found to be invalid and consequently delisted. The commission claimed that several double, multiple, and ineligible registrants Read More
Ahead of 2023 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has concluded plan to launch an online recruitment portal to employ adhoc staff. In a letter to all Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) signed by the commission’s acting secretary, A.T. Yusuf, the commission disclosed that the portal would open on September 14 and close on December 14, 2022. “The commission Read More
The Plateau State National and State House of Assemblies, Election Petition Tribunal (EPT) has dismissed Hon. Musa Avia Agah of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) representing Bassa/Jos-North Federal Constituency from the House of Representatves’ seat. The tribunal also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to return Muhammad Adam Alkali of the Peoples’ Redemption Party (PRP) as valid winner of Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Saturday, ruled out possibilities of extension of the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise, insisting that it would close on July 31, 2022 as scheduled. The INEC National Commissioner in charge of Voter Education and Publicity, Barr. Festus Okoye, who disclosed this while interacting with journalists in Awka, Anambra state, noted that the Read More
The speaker of Ebonyi state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, has emerged as the authentic governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) ahead of 2023 general elections. Similarly, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, not Obinna Ogba turned out to be the recognised guber candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) for the same general election in the state. Read More
A ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), demanding dismissal of its Akwa Ibom state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, within 48 hours. The petition is signed by APC Zonal Organising Secretary, South-south, Dr. Blessing Agbomhere. The letter addressed to the chairman of the commission accused Mr. Igini of “incessant acts of biasness, injustice, Read More
Ahead of the July 16 governorship election in Osun state, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would conduct a mock accreditation in the three senatorial districts of the state. The exercise, according to INEC, was part of steps being taking to ensure a hitch-free election in the state. A release signed and made available to Journalists by Read More
Osun State Police Command, on Saturday, said it apprehended a corps member, a supervisor working with the Independent National Electoral Commission, and one other over manipulation of ongoing distribution of Permanent Voter Cards in Osu, Osun state. The police also said 38 PVCs were recovered from the suspects. A statement by the spokesperson for the command, Yemisi Opalola, obtained in Read More
The Action Alliance (AA) party Tuesday asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from including the name of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ballot of the 2023 Presidential election. The party equally asked the court for another order restraining the electoral umpire from accepting the name of Senator Bola Tinubu Read More
The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Mahamat Saleh Annadif, has asked the national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to show more commitments to a peaceful 2023 general elections.The UN warned that if there is no peace in Nigeria the rest of Africa will feel it. Speaking Monday during a visit to the APC national Read More
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