The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has adjourned the state collation of results for the Bayelsa governorship election. The Returning Officer for the election Faruk Adamu Kuta announced this late yesterday at the INEC Collation Centre in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The exercise was also adjourned in Kogi State, reports Channels TV...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has condemned pockets of violence and vote trading that characterised the Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo States governorship elections. A member of the CDD Election Analysis Centre, Dr Jack Jackson, at a press briefing today in Abuja, also bemoaned the late arrival of sensitive materials by the Independent...
•Voting An election observer in Bayelsa State has raised the alarm about shooting, vote buying and abduction during Saturday’s governorship election in the South-South state. Nengi James of the Transition Monitoring Group told our correspondent that it was surprising that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) came a...
In a dramatic turn of events during the ongoing governorship election in Bayelsa State, security agents have arrested two party supervisors affiliated with the All Progressives Congress (APC). The suspects were apprehended while allegedly attempting to induce voters with a staggering ₦95 million in cash, reports Saturday Sun. The arrest took p...
•Bandits The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Supervising Presiding Officer (SPO) assigned to registration area 06 in Ossioma, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has been abducted. The INEC official, whose identity was not known as at the time of filling this report was abducted at Amassoma Community in Southern Ij...
The Bayelsa East Women Solidarity Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has raised a red flag over what they claim to be a clandestine plan by some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the senatorial district. The PDP Women Group alleged that there is an orchestrated scheme to divert election materials, particularly [&he...
•Ballot box IGovernorship elections have been scheduled in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi states for tomorrow Saturday November 11. On election day, voting will take place between 8:30 am and 2:30 pm. Nevertheless, voters in the queue on or before 2:30 pm will be allowed to vote, reports Channels TV. 1. Voting starts at 8:30 am. […]
•Timipre Sylva Ahead of the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Bayelsa State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has added the name of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timipre Sylva, to the final list of candidates for the poll. INEC, in the new list published on its website, said the addition [&h...

