Tag: INEC

INEC refutes SERAP’s claims on prosecution of electoral offenders

Aminu Imam
INEC refutes SERAP

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has refuted recent claims by the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), which accused INEC of failing to prosecute electoral offenders from the 2023 General Election.  In an issued statement yesterday, signed by its National Commissioner and Chairman of INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee., Sam Olumekun, described the allegations as misrepresentations, stating that SERAP’s claims “fly in the face of facts already in the public domain”. SERAP had alleged that INEC failed to prosecute certain Governors and Deputy Governors for electoral violations, including…

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INEC faults SERAP over prosecution of Govs, Deputies as electoral offenders

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has faulted the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP on its alleged neglect and non-prosecution of offenders arising from the 2023 General Election, especially Governors and Deputies found wanting for violations of electoral laws, describing the assertion by SERAP as misleading. INEC in a statement by a National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun said the allegations are untrue and fly in the face of facts already in the public domain. INEC stressed that Governors and Deputy Governors have constitutional…

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Edo 2024: INEC begins collation of results, as APC maintains lead

Aminu Imam
Edo

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has begun collation of the gubernatorial election results in Edo State. This was revealed by the National Commissioner & Member Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, during a press conference yesterday. The returning officer is Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta, Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna. INEC also said it had activated the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal to upload the polling unit results in earnest. The same results have also been collated from all the 192 Wards. The election, which was held on…

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Edo: “We won’t remove ‘Wike’s cousin’ as REC” -  INEC tells PDP

Aminu Imam
INEC tells PDP

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Edo State, Anugbum Onuoha, said to be the first cousin of Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), will not be redeployed ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in the State. Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, Tony Aziegbemi, had last week, asked INEC to redeploy Onuoha over ties with Wike. He expressed a lack of confidence in the REC’s ability to conduct a free and fair election. Onuoha, the INEC…

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‘How NPC was pushed to persuade INEC to annul 2023 election’ – AbdulSalami

Aminu Imam
AbdulSalami

The Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy, has described the silence of National Peace Committee (NPC) as deafening in spite of the avalanche of election petitions and likely far-reaching outcomes that could follow the decisions. The Centre stated that the NPC, led by General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), had, prior to the 2023 elections, engaged political leaders on the need for a peaceful and credible election. The NPC said it was inundated by requests to intervene in the 2023 presidential elections by halting the vote count or cancelling the election entirely.…

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Court orders INEC to probe electoral offences ‘perpetrated by Governors’  

Aminu Imam
Court orders INEC

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate cases of electoral violence, bribery, vote-buying, and conspiracy during the 2023 general election. The judgment was delivered on Thursday, following suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/583/2023. The suit, which was filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), had sought for the prosecution of suspected perpetrators of electoral offences and their sponsors. In a statement issued yesterday, SERAP said the court ordered INEC to ensure the appointment of independent counsels to “investigate cases of electoral violence…

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INEC proposes 142 recommendations to improve electoral process

Aminu Imam
INEC proposes

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says the Commission has come up with 142 recommendations to improve the future electoral process. Yakubu disclosed this at the opening of a 2-day Induction Retreat for Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) yesterday, in Lagos. He said the Commission had published the report of the review of the 2023 elections, adding it was already available on its website, adding that in addition, there is also the outcome of the retreats and engagements with stakeholders, which is right now being published.…

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“Conduct fresh elections in 27 State constituencies in Rivers” - PDP tells INEC

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has demanded that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should immediately commence the process of conducting fresh elections into the 27 State Constituencies in Rivers State, which have become vacant by reason of the defection of the 27 former State lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly to the All-Progressives Congress, (APC). The PDP asserted that by defecting from the party, the political platform on which they were elected into the Rivers State House of Assembly, the seats of the respective 27 former lawmakers…

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2023 Elections: INEC ‘danced naked in the market’ – Appeal Court slams electoral body

Aminu Imam

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja berated the Independent National Electoral Commissioner, INEC, while accusing it of being partisan. The appellate court, on Friday, slammed the Commission for appearing before it to act in favour of a party in an election dispute, by disowning documents that it not only issued, but also duly certified. The court lamented that the electoral body has continued to “dance naked in the market”, even though it was meant to assume a neutral stand in election litigations. “The INEC, as an institution, should be…

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‘How we lost election for not bribing INEC, Police’ – Obasanjo

Aminu Imam

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, while speaking in Abeokuta at a high-level consultation he organised on ‘Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy in Africa’, recalled how his former political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lost a local government election in Ogun State in 1998 because he rejected plans to bribe officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). Obasanjo, while making the claim, said party leaders had told him that there should be money allocated for the police and INEC, but he rejected the proposal on the belief that INEC officials…

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