Tag: INEC Commissioner

INEC lists five challenges ahead of 2023 elections

Aminu Imam

As politicians step-up horse-trading ahead of subsequent elections in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has listed five main areas of likely challenges that could confront the Commission in the conduct of the election and the 2023 general election.  These areas include expanding voter access to polling units in the context of a growing population, the growth of new settlements across the country and validation of the voters roll and Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) in the shadow of the COVID- 19 pandemic.  Others are the amendment of the…

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‘We can’t hold elections without Police’, INEC insists

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, declared that it could not conduct any elections without security officials, especially police personnel in the country. Enugu State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr. Emeka Ononamadu, told newsmen and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that it could not conduct the Isi-Uzo constituency bye-election earlier scheduled for October 31, 2020 due to the #EndSARS protests. INEC had declared the Isi-Uzo State Constituency in Enugu State vacant following the death of its former representative, Chijioke Ugwueze. Wife of The Late lawmaker, Amaka Ugwueze, however, emerged Peoples…

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70 CSOs reject Buhari’s media aide, Lauretta Onochie’s appointment as INEC Commissioner

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, on Tuesday, kicked against the nomination of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Social Media, Ms Lauretta Onochie, as National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, representing the South-South. The Situation Room which is a coalition of 70 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the country, maintained that the 1999 Constitution, as amended, forbade the appointment of a partisan politician as a member of INEC. Stressing that Ms Onochie is a known partisan supporter of President Buhari and his ruling party, the…

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