The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has described the 2023 elections as the most transparent and credible ever held in the country. The minister said this on Saturday, March 18 in his home town, Oro, near Ilorin Kwara while speaking with newsmen after casting his vote in the Governorship and State Assemblies elections. […]
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Why Buhari’s Quiet Over Allegations Of Irregularities Against INEC — Presidency
Via – Vanguard The Presidency, on Thursday, gave the reason why President Muhammadu Buhari kept is silent when there were allegations of irregularities and compromise against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on the conduct of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. The Presidency also ruled out the possibility of taking any decision […]
Presidential Poll: 70 CSOs Kick Against INEC’s Move To Reconfigure BVAS
The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, on Tuesday, kicked against the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential election. The Situation Room, which is a coalition of 70 Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, working in support of credible and transparent elections in […]
Resign Now, Don’t Blame Your Staff – Atiku Tells INEC Chairman
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has called on the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, to resign from his position. INEC declared the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, the winner of the February 25 election with 8,794,726 votes. Tinubu beat Atiku who […]
BVAS: Saturday’s Gov Polls Might Be Postponed Over LP, PDP Court Order
Via – Vanguard Saturday’s Governorship and State Assembly elections across the country could be postponed, except the appellate court reverses itself on the relief it granted the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party LP counterpart, Peter Obi. The court had last week stopped the Independent National Electoral […]
Lagos: Court Orders INEC To Upload Gov’ship Election Results Immediately After Voting
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to electronically transmit results during the March 11 Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. The reports said that the Labour Party, its governorship candidate in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour; and 37 others had filed a motion ex-parte marked: FHC/L/CS/370/2023. […]
2023 Elections: INEC Bars Negligent Staff From Gov’ship Poll, Assures Use Of BVAS
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has banned its regular and ad-hoc staff allegedly found to be negligent, including collation and returning officers (ROs), during the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, from participating in the forthcoming March 11 governorship and State Assembly elections. The nation’s electoral body also assured Nigerians that the Bimodal […]