Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released its final list of candidates seeking to contest the Edo governorship election slated for September. This was contained in a statement signed today by Sam Olumekun, INEC’s commissioner for information and voter education. According to him, 17 political parties have presented candidat...
•INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will no longer register any election observer that fails to submit its report, after monitoring elections it conducted. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this at the commission’s first quarterly consultative meeting with Civil Society Organis...
•Mahmood Yakubu The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has reiterated his call on political parties to avoid situations that lead to the conduct of parallel primaries and the emergence of multiple candidates. Yakubu made the call at the first regular quarterly consultative meeting with political p...
Ahead of the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has issued a deadline for the submission of nomination forms for candidates. The electoral body in a statement today by its National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, asked politica...
•INEC chairman, Mamoud Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the federal government released N313.4 billion for the conduct of the 2023 general elections. The commission in its 2023 General Election Report released yesterday, said that out of the N355 billion approved for the conduct of the elections, only the sum of...
•Peter Obi Presidential Candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of deceiving Nigerians with report of the poll released earlier yesterday. In the 526-page report of the 2023 elections, formally released ahead of the first anniversary of the election, INEC expl...
•Olumide Akpata The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate for Edo State Olumide Akpata says his letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) helped the party conduct a credible governorship primary in the state. Akpata had some days back written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) claiming there was a p...
•Voters on queue to cast their ballot during the 2023 election The Independent Electoral Commission has released the 2023 election report which emphasises the role of technological advancements, particularly the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), in enhancing electoral integrity and reducing fraud. In a release signed by the National C...
•INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu Barring any last minute change of plans, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC is set to release the 2023 general election report today. The report would detail all aspects of the election including the technical glitch experienced with the INEC Results Viewing Portal iREV during the presidential ele...
•Governor Diri The All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have tendered conflicting election results on the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Bayelsa State. The conflicting election results were tendered at the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, repo...