Tag: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

H/Reps considers Bill stopping South-South, South-West, North-West from presidential election

Aminu Imam

There’s currently a proposed Bill at the House of Representatives which aims to prevent candidates from the North-West, South-West, and South-South regions from running for future Presidential elections in Nigeria until other regions have taken their turn. The Bill, is seeking an alteration to various sections of the 1999 Constitution to prevent the three geo-political zones from presenting candidates in the next general election. The proposed Bill, titled: “An Act to modify the provisions of the Constitution of Nigeria to introduce a system of power rotation among various geographic and…

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Presidential election: ’BVAS failed to transmit Feb 25 results’ – INEC staff

Aminu Imam

Two subpoenaed witnesses of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar yesterday in Abuja admitted at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed to transmit results of the election after collation. The witnesses, Friday Egwuma and Grace Timothy, who are both ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that the BVAS machine allocated to them developed system error immediately results of the Senate and House of Representatives aspects of the…

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Polls open in Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary elections

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Polls officially opened on Monday in Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary elections under strict COVID-19 protocols. Long queues formed at the polling stations long before voting began at 0700 GMT. Some 17 million voters are on the register to cast their ballots. Voting will end at 1700 GMT and counting will be at the polling stations. The Electoral Commission says it will declare the results in 24 hours although the law gives it 72 hours. Voters will choose a new president and 275 parliamentarians. There are 12 presidential candidates, although only…

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