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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has no candidate in Saturday’s Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo governorship election, because it is not a political party. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, said this at a news conference held at the Kogi Headquarters of the commission in Lokoja on Friday. Yakubu, represented by Dr Gabriel Longpet, the INEC Kogi Resident ...

The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, on Friday said Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi states are the most difficult places to conduct elections. Yakubu said the difficult terrain and insecurity caused by political actors in the states make it difficult to conduct elections in the areas. He spoke at a meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative ...

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said on Wednesday, October 25, that the off-cycle governorship elections in Kogi, Imo, and Bayelsa were critical to the commission. Yakubu, who spoke at a meeting with the Civil Society Organisation ahead of the elections, Prof. Yakubu announced that about 145 organisations deploying 7,896 observers have been accredited ...

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that the commission will conduct four bye-elections into National Assembly seats recently declared vacant by lawmakers nominated for ministers by President Bola Tinubu. Mahmood disclosed this at the 2023 Post Election Review meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in Lagos. The INEC boss explained that the four ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that the Labour Party (LP) has no ground to call for the sack of its chairman, Mahmood Yakubu. The LP in a press briefing on Thursday, called on the international community to take “punitive action” against Yakubu and other top INEC officials over the conduct of the 2023 elections. The party cited ...

The Labour Party has demanded the immediate dismissal from office and prosecution of Prof Yakubu Mahmood, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the reports on the 2023 presidential election. The demand was made by the Director General of the Campaign Council, Otumba Akin Osuntokun at a media briefing in Abuja, on Thursday. The organisation said the demand ...

Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has applied to summon chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, to appear before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja. Atiku, who came second in the presidential election that held on February 25, equally summoned the Secretary of the Commission, Dr. Rose Oriarian-Anton, as ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denied that a property that was attacked in Bauchi State belongs to its chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. The commission made this known in a statement signed by Yakubu’s Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi, on Saturday. Oyekanmi insisted that his principal does not own any property and the rumours are part of a desperate ...

About 87, 209,007 Nigerians who collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) out of the 93,469,008 registered voters in the country will be qualified to vote during the current election cycle, the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has said. This represents about 93.3 per cent of the total registered voters in the country as about 6.2 million registered voters failed to collect ...

The electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said the commission’s staff remained non-partisan. Speaking on BBC News Africa, he said the election results will be transmitted electronically as provided by law. He dismissed reports that the commission may postpone the polls due to insecurity and attacks on INEC facilities. On claims he is ...