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The All Progressives Congress on Sunday took a swipe at the opposition Peoples Democratic Party over the result of Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State. The party, in a statement in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, said Nigerians were not deceived by PDP’s claim of being on a rescue mission […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has vowed not to extend the June 3, 2022 deadline for primaries. The commission noted that as at Monday, none of the 18 political parties had conducted their presidential primaries three weeks to the deadline. A document obtained from INEC on Monday showed that the Accord Party scheduled […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said it would deploy no fewer than one million electoral officials, including permanent and ad-hoc staff, for next year’s general elections to man 176,846 polling units across the country. INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu spoke at the Public Presentation of the 2022-2026 Strategic Plan (SP) and the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, in accordance with the new electoral law, issued out new guidelines for 2023 general elections. This was contained in a press statement issued at the end of the emergency meeting of the Commission to review her preparedness for the poll. The statement was made by the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission says fresh registrants in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration has hit 5,560,093 as of 7am of February 7th. The commission disclosed this at the Quarter Three, Week Five update provided on its website on Tuesday in Abuja. The commission also disclosed that 2,959,380 registrants had completed their […]
The governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has congratulated Mr Ovuakpoye Evivie on his victory in Saturday’s by-election for the Isoko-South Constituency 1 seat in the House of Assembly. The governor also congratulated the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the outcome of the election in which its member, Evivie emerged victorious. Okowa’s felicitation […]
The Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, says the All Progressives Congress is afraid of the electronic transmission of election results because of its abysmal failure in the past six years. Okowa, who stated this at a news briefing through the Commissioner for information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, said those kicking against electronic transmission have plans […]
The Governor of Delta State,Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has warned that the rejection of electronic transmission of election results by the National Assembly, could deter the country’s effort at attracting Foreign Direct Investments, FDIs. Okowa, who made the statement when he received the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state, Monday Udoh-Tom, and his management […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the attacks on its offices may affect early preparations for the 2023 general elections if allowed to continue. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, stated this on Monday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “For us, we don’t know […]
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would continue to register political parties as long as they meet the stipulated requirements. Head of Department of Election and Party Monitoring, Aminu Idris, stated this, yesterday, at a roundtable on modalities for measuring political parties’ performance in Nigeria organized by Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), […]