Tag Archives: INEC

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has denied that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu worked under him in the Federal Ministry of Education. Wike said he and Yakubu worked in the Federal Ministry of Education under the supervision of the Minister of Education. “Amaechi wildly claimed in his recent interview that the Chairman of INEC, Professor ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 elections, Peter Obi has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to among others, cancel the election and conduct a fresh one. Obi’s request forms part of the reliefs being sought in a petition he filed with his party at the court’s secretariat located at the Court of ...

Some results are currently coming in from local government areas in the ongoing governorship election across the country. Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have concluded announcing results in polling units, wards and are now in LGA headquarters. Here are some of the results from wards. Lagos: Somolu LGA APC: 36,783 PDP: 3,130 LP: 15,096 Surulere APC 17,837 ...

Electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it postponed Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in the 10 polling units situated in Victoria Garden City of Lagos State. The intimation was made by INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Segun Agbaje, while speaking with journalists on Saturday at the Estate. Agbaje said that corps members deployed as ad hoc staff on ...

Operatives of the Imo State State Police Command have rescued 19 Ad-Hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who were kidnapped in the State in the early hours of Saturday. This was revealed by the INEC spokesperson in the State, Chinenye Chijioke-Osuji while speaking to newsmen. She said they were rescued after a distress call, and information about ...

Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello has hailed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for coming out in record time in his polling unit in Okene, Kogi State. He also noted the election was going on smoothly across the state. “Turnout is impressive. We are expecting more. So far, it is peaceful. INEC officials came out in record time. Across the state ...

The electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said  its operations are guided by the Electoral Act and not by political parties. Prof. Gabriel Yomere, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Cross River, made this known in Calabar during an interview with Newsmen. Yomere was reacting to calls by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to sign the election result ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has reacted to the report making the rounds that it has appointed a partisan politician to head its ICT department in Lagos ahead of the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections on Saturday. Chief Olabode George, a former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had on Monday insisted that INEC ...

Please permit me to start with response to a twist and contortion done by the lying online medium called Sahara Reporters to my article last week. I had written under the headline, For PMB, it’s Nigeria or Nothing, and the point I made was that President Muhammadu Buhari had given the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) all that it needed ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to grant the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, access to sensitive materials it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh, said it was satisfied there was ...