Tag: INEC

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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Appeal Court upholds Zamfara PDP Governorship primary election

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Court of Appeal Sokoto division on Friday upheld the primary election which produced Dr Dauda Lawal-Dare as candidate of the PDP for the March 11, governorship election in Zamfara. The first PDP Governorship Primary election was held on May 25, 2022. The primary was challenged at Federal High Court in Gusau. The court ordered for fresh primary election which the re-run was conducted on Sept. 23, 2022 and also quashed by the same court for irregularities. Not satisfied, the Appellants, Lawal-Dare, Adamu Maina-Waziri, the chairman primary election committee and retired…

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2023: APC berates INEC’s silence on Wike’s 200,000 Special Assistants on polling units 

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), over its continued silence on the decision of Governor Nyesom Wike to appoint 200,000 Special Assistants on Polling Units. In an issued statement yesterday in Port Harcourt, by the spokesman of the party’s 2023 Campaign Council, Sogbeye Eli, the APC said it is only INEC that is empowered by the constitution and the Electoral Act to recruit and deploy electoral personnel. “The recruitment of 200,000 people for deployment at polling units by a Government…

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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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2023: INEC accuses politicians of buying PVCs, inducing voters

Aminu Imam

Barely 74 days to the anticipated 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has accused some politicians of buying Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and financially inducing voters in order to harvest their Voter Identification Numbers, (VIN). The electoral umpire who made the accusation on Monday, through the Acting Chairman and National Commissioner overseeing the FCT, Kaduna and Plateau States, Mohammed Haruna warned the alleged politician to desist or face the full rot of the law. Speaking during the launch of the #YourVoteMatters project by NESSACTION, an election observer…

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2023: lNEC cautions politicians against provocative outbursts during campaigns   

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Katsina State has cautioned politicians and political parties to avoid using provocative and abusive words during campaigns in the State. The Head of the Commission’s Election and Party Monitoring (EPM), Abdullahi Ibrahim-Umar, gave the caution at a stakeholder’s forum on Friday in Katsina. According to the INEC official, political campaigns should be conducted in a peaceful, orderly and matured manner. He explained further that Electoral Act 2022 section 92 (1-6) stipulates how political campaigns should be conducted. He said the law provided that…

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2023: “We’ve deployed BVAS to 30 States” – INEC 

Aminu Imam

…Says its usage non-negotiable for polls  National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Festus Okoye, has said the bimodal voter automated system (BVAS) has been deployed to 30 states ahead of the upcoming elections. Okoye spoke on Thursday during a workshop on election reporting organised by the Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNFJ). BVAS is a device introduced by INEC for the accreditation of voters through biometrics capturing, uploading of polling results and other functions. The device has been described by stakeholders as a…

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Senate threatens to cut budget of Army, Police, INEC, NIA, NSA, 95 others

Aminu Imam

The Senate, yesterday, threatened to withdraw allocation to about 100 Ministries, Department, and Agencies, (MDAs). The Upper Chamber’s resolution was on the heels of observations made at its plenary session by Senator Mathew Urhoghide. The Senator representing Edo-South, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts, has accused the chief executives of the agencies of failure to honour his Committee’s invitation, based on queries against their finances by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation. Senator Urhoghide, during the plenary, said, “The agencies that have vehemently refused to…

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Fundamental Rights to Vote: Nigerians in Diaspora sue Buhari, INEC

Aminu Imam

…Ask court to stop 2023 elections Nigerians of voting age resident in the United Kingdom and various parts of the world have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking enforcement of their fundamental rights to vote in the 2023 general elections. In the suit, they are praying the court to stop Buhari and INEC from further proceeding with the 2023 electioneering process until INEC’s voter register and bio-data base are updated to accommodate them as registered voters. Plaintiffs…

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