•INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the commission has no constitutional power to conduct local council elections except in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Yakubu said this on the sidelines of a two-day induction retreat for INEC Resident Electoral Comm...
•INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has clarified that the council chairmen and councillors in the Federal Capital Territory would remain in office till 2026. The chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the clarification at a meeting with the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State may not participate in the November 16, 2024 gubernatorial election in the state as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) electoral officers declared that the party didn’t conduct governorship primary election on April 20, 2024 in the state. Reports submitted by INEC electoral of...
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...
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