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Armed men on Friday morning attacked the official residence of the Kogi Resident Electoral Commission, Hale Gabriel Longpet, in Lokoja. This incident is coming two days after a mob barricaded the INEC office in Lokoja, preventing staff from gaining access into the premises. Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekunmi said in a…
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The Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Lokoja, yesterday, gave INEC 48 hours to issue certified copies of electoral materials of the 11 November election in the state to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate. It also ordered INEC to allow SDP’s forensic experts to examine some electoral materials. The materials include the Bimodal…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has urged Nigerians to disregard the alleged manipulation of voters’ data on the several Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS used in the November 11th Guber election in Kogi state. Alhaji Yakubu Murtala Ajaka, flagbearer of the Social Democratic Party SDP in the election had alleged s collision between the…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended election in nine Registration Area (RAs) in Kogi over incidences of electoral malpractices. The commission confirmed this in a statement issued by the National Commissioner and Member, Information and Voter Education Committee, Malam Mohammed Haruna, on Saturday. Haruna said that INEC received reports from its officials in…
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Barely 3 weeks to the opening of ballots in the off cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised serious concerns over the spate of violence that is threatening the delivery of a free and fair polls in the respective states. Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday vetoed its Kano State office over the pending appeal lodged by Kano State Governor Kabir Abba Yusuf on the recent invalidation of his election by the Governorship Election petition Tribunal. The Kano INEC office had stirred controversy across the country with a leaked letter by its legal department…
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The Presidential Election Petitions Court sitting in Abuja has been told by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that it was unaware of the over 20-year old United States District Court judgment which ordered President Bola Tinubu to forfeit $460,000 suspected to be proceeds of narcotics trade. INEC at the court proceedings claimed that the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday accused Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate Peter Obi of refusing to pay for documents. It said the petitioners were unwilling to pay the required fees for the certification of election documents required to prove their petition. INEC said their unwillingness to pay the prescribed fees accounts…
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It is nine days after the March 18 Governorship and State Assembly elections, the results of 183 constituencies across seven states have not been published by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Some of the polls have been declared inconclusive while the commission is withholding the results in some states.Also, governorship election results in Kebbi…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct this year’s general elections in super camps, following persisting insecurity in liberated four councils of Borno State. The affected councils are Guzamala, Abadam, Marte and Kukawa. Speaking on INEC’s preparedness, yesterday, in Maiduguri, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mohammed Ibrahim, noted: “All sensitive and non-sensitive materials have…
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