The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to hold state governors, their deputies and others to account over cases of electoral violence, bribery, vote-buying, and conspiracy during the 2023 general elections. According to a statement issued by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, on…
Scores of Itsekiri in Delta State, on Monday, took to the streets of Warri to demand fairness and equity ahead of the planned delimitation of Wards across Warri South, Warri North and Warri South-West local government areas. Armed with placards with varying inscriptions such as “INEC must obey the Nigerian constitution,” and “INEC must dismantle…
Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, said it was the ‘establishment of criminality’ that made the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, servers not work during the last presidential election. Obi, who insisted that the people must one day make it to work, explained that Amazon testified there were no glitches…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Saturday, published the forms and particulars of political parties’ candidates submitted for the Edo State governorship election holding on September 21. The particulars were displayed at the INEC office in Aduwawa in Benin, the state capital, and in all its 18 local government offices in the state. The state…
Nigeria’s Electoral body The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 19 political parties will take part in the November 16 governorship election in Ondo State. Ondo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the commission, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, said this during a meeting with representatives of political parties in Akure on Friday. She said that the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its governorship candidate in Imo State, Senator Samuel Anyanwu and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at the Imo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, have traded blames over alleged withholding of vital documents relating to the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state. The PDP and…
Nigeria’s electoral governing body INEC has poured cold water on the dust generated from last Saturday’s governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, which produced three winners The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Dr. Anugbum Onuoha, said that the electoral umpire would only reckon with the exercise conducted at the venue…
INEC says it is 100 per cent ready for the rescheduled Enugu South Urban State Constituency rerun election scheduled for Wednesday, February 14. INEC’s head of voter education and publicity department, Rex Achumie, told journalists in Enugu on Tuesday that adequate arrangements had been made for the exercise. Mr Achumie said the commission would receive…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the suspension of the ongoing re-run elections in Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency, Akwa lbom State, Enugu South 1 State Constituency, Enugu State and Kunchi/Tsanyawa State Constituency, Kano State over disruptions, irregularities and abduction of election officials. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olamekun…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said about 67,315 eligible voters will participate in the February 3 re-run elections in Enugu State. INEC’s Head of Department for Voters Education and Publicity, Mr Rex Achumie, disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu on Tuesday while speaking on the voting population for the re-run. According to him,…
