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#OndoDecides: ‘BVAS reported 97% success rate’ � Ondo REC

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024 Aminu Imam

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ondo State, Oluwatoyin Babalola, has reported that the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) has recorded a 97% success rate in the Ondo State Governorship election, which took place yesterday. Babalola, who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday, while monitoring the election at some centres in Akure, the State capital, was accompanied by the INEC National Commissioner, Kenneth Onyeakwu, and the State Police Commissioner, Oladipo Abayomi. According to Babalola, the election has been running smoothly, adding that polls were…

Ondo election: “We’ve engaged our ad-hoc staff, recruited 30,000 security personnel” – INEC

November 16, 2024November 16, 2024 Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) says it has trained and briefed security agencies on its mode of operation as part of efforts to ensure there�s no hitch in the conduct of the upcoming governorship election in Ondo State. According to its Commissioner, Mrs Babalola, over 30,000 security personnel have been trained and deployed for the election, slated for today, Saturday. �The security agencies have given us assurance. We trained them on the need to be professional and the need to be committed to the job they engage in. We…

�We conducted free, fair, credible election in Kogi�, says INEC

November 16, 2023November 16, 2023 Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in a statement by its National Commissioner and member of, the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, in Abuja, said that the Nov. 11 governorship election held in Kogi was free, fair and credible, faulting claims that it tampered with the accredited figures of voters in the election. The statement reads: �The attention of INEC has been drawn to some media reports alleging it tampered with the accredited figures of voters in Kogi governorship election results uploaded on the INEC Result Viewing (IReV)…

Tinubu appoints 9 new INEC Commissioners

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 Aminu Imam

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of nine (9) new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for a term of five (5) years each, subject to the confirmation of the Nigerian Senate. The Resident Electoral Commissioners are: Isah Shaka Ehimeakne – Edo State; Ekiti State – Bamidele Agbede; Gombe – Jani Adamu Bello; Kwara State Dr. Taiye Ilayasu; Lagos State – Dr. Bunmi Omoseyindemi. The others are: Nasarawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner – Yahaya Bello; Niger State – Prof. Mohammed Yalwa; Rivers State –…

Adamawa election: Suspended REC, Yunusa Ari reveals why he declared Binani winner

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Aminu Imam

Weeks after the Adamawa State governorship election saga, the suspended State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa Ari,�has said he declared A’ishatu Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), as winner due to security pressures. Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, suspended Yunusa Ari following the illegal declaration of Binani as winner, which violated the Electoral Act. However, INEC entered the fray and declared Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the genuine winner of the Adamawa State election after following due process.…

‘Adamawa REC�s action provocative, Buhari should intervene’ – Fintiri

April 17, 2023April 17, 2023 Aminu Imam

Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, says the decision of Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the State, to declare a winner in the governorship election is �illegal and provocative�. The governor called on President Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the matter, saying he should not �shy away from this�. �We call on him to make a statement, we call on him to take a decision. I believe he will not be party to this,� he said. Fintiri, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke on Sunday during a…

�We are yet to fix date for supplementary NASS elections� � INEC

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has refuted claims that it will hold supplementary Presidential and National Assembly elections in concurrence with the governorship and State House of Assembly polls. National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, Barrister Festus Okoye, in an issued statement, said INEC is yet to fix a date for supplementary National Assembly elections in about 15 States. The Commission said what will be conducted with State Assembly and Governorship elections today are one senatorial election in Enugu and one House of Representatives poll in Edo State. Okoye…

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

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 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…

2023: “With loopholes for rigging blocked, the rest is in voters� hands”, Says Ex-INEC Commissioner

January 2, 2023January 2, 2023 Aminu Imam

A former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Akwa-Ibom State of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Mike Igini, has said that the newly introduced Bi-modal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) would curtail rigging and other forms of electoral manipulations commonly perpetrated by politicians.� The former REC, who made this known in a published opinion article yesterday, said, “The 2022 Electoral Act, INEC processes and procedures have returned power of the ballot fully to voters at the polling units, where elections will now be won or lost, and not at wards, LGAs…

2023: One-year jail term, N500, 000 fine awaits vote buyers � INEC�

December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 Aminu Imam

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that one-year imprisonment, or a fine of N500, 000, awaits anyone found guilty of buying votes during the 2023 elections. The INEC Commissioner in Jigawa State, Professor Muhammad Lawal Bashar, who read the Riot Act in an interview with newsmen, said the electoral commission is prepared to conduct all the elections with the BVAS machine to ensure free and fair elections. According to him, the machine will identify voters going to vote, and those who have…