Tag: Independent National Electoral Commission

‘INEC has no candidate in 2023 general election’ – Professor Yakubu

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reassured that it will not support any candidate or political party in the 2023 general election, saying it is only interested in the electoral process. The Commission’s Chairman,Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this when he addressed Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) for the 2023 general election, in Abuja. Yakubu urged them to be committed to their oath of neutrality and allegiance to Nigeria. He advised them not to see their job as a service to INEC but to the country as a whole in which…

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2023 Elections: “INEC fully ready ” – Commission’s Chairman, Yakubu

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is fully ready to hold this year’s general elections, its Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said. Yakubu spoke following the successful conduct of its mock accreditation holding nationwide. The mock accreditation exercise is meant to test the effectiveness of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) being deployed for the election nationwide as a replacement for the card reader. The exercise is taking place in about 436 polling units in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), with two polling…

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2023: INEC may postpone Presidential election by 2 weeks – INEC official

Aminu Imam

There were feelers yesterday, that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may shift the February 25 presidential election by a minimum of two weeks due to logistics issues. Key among these challenges is the incessant burning of INEC offices across the country and the insecurity challenges in the South-East and North-East regions. According to a published report yesterday, a senior official of the Commission, said that while the electoral body is determined to stick with the scheduled date, recent developments in the country may force it to announce an extension.…

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2023: INEC to conduct mock accreditation of voters in 436 polling units on Feb. 5

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), will next week Saturday, February 5, conduct mock accreditation of voters in 436 polling units across the country. The exercise is to test-run INEC’s readiness for the nationwide deployment of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines and other logistics for the February/March general election. The commission has designated 12 polling units in each state of the federation and four in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on the equality of the country’s 109 senatorial districts for the exercise. INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at…

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2023 Elections: “We need 530,538 security operatives” – INEC

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), says it would require 530,538 security officers for the peaceful conduct of the 2023 elections.  INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who stated this on Tuesday during a briefing at the Chatham House in London, said that the electoral body also required 707,384 electoral officials for the exercise.  According to him, “For the 2023 general elections, the Commission requires at least 707,384 presiding and assistant presiding officers, about 17,685 supervisory presiding officers, 9,620 collation/returning officers as well as 530,538 polling unit security officials, making a total…

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2023: “Military, DSS told INEC to go ahead with presidential, other elections” – Yakubu

Aminu Imam

The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says the Commission received “repeated assurance” from the military, Police and DSS to go ahead with the presidential, legislative, and governorship elections. The elections are scheduled for February 25 and March 11. The INEC Chairman refuted the earlier reported comments that the electoral body contemplated adjusting the election timetable, including postponing the polls. Recall that on Monday, Prof. Yakubu, represented by the chairman of the Board of Electoral Institute, Abdullahi Zuru, revealed that if the insecurity is not monitored…

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Insecurity: INEC vows to go ahead with elections, presents voters register of 93.46m to Parties

Aminu Imam

…Begins airlift of sensitive materials The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has disclosed its determination to proceed with the conduct of the February/March general election, two days after it expressed fears about the wave of general insecurity across the country. Recall that INEC had lamented that if not tamed, the ugly trend of pre-election violence could precipitate a constitutional crisis by way of the forced cancellation of election results, or outright postponement of polls. Presenting the register of voters to chairmen and secretaries of Nigeria’s 18 registered political parties yesterday…

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Insecurity may force cancellation of 2023 election – INEC raises fresh alarm

Aminu Imam

With barely forty-four days to the commencement of the forthcoming general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) has raised the alarm over the rising security situation across the country and its resultant impact. The INEC Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu, who spoke at the validation of election security training resources, which was held in Abuja yesterday, noted that the forthcoming election faces serious threat of cancellation should the insecurity across the country fail to improve. Yakubu, represented by the Chairman, Board of Electoral Institute, Abdullahi Zuru, explained that “if the insecurity…

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2023: INEC to train 1.4million ad-hoc staff on BVAS usage

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that more than 1.4 million ad-hoc staff will be trained in the effective usage of the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye, made this disclosure during an interview on a television programme, tagged, “2022 In Retrospect, an End-Of-Year special.” The Commission said it had sufficient BVAS to conduct elections in the 176,846 polling units nationwide. Okoye further stated that the processes and procedures of the Commission are going well as planned…

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2023: INEC replaces 340 candidates in fresh amended list

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) has released an amended final list of candidates participating in the 2023 general election, revealing that court order was responsible for the replacement of the over 340 candidates. It disclosed that candidates for Senate seats, House of Representatives, Governorship and House of Assembly were all involved in the first and second amendments. According to the list, released on its official website, the Commission disclosed that while the first amendment for Senate totalled to 33 candidates, the second amendment involved 19 candidates. On the governorship,…

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