The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, held that the National Assembly lacks the power to re-order the proposed sequence for 2019 general elections. The court, in a judgment that was delivered by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, maintained that the…
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INEC DENIES CREATING ADDITIONAL POLLING UNITS
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied creating 30,000 additional polling units in order to compromise the 2019 general elections. National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party`s (PDP), Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday alleged that INEC was planning to create…
2019 NO E-VOTING: ELECTION IS NOT JUST BY TECHNOLOGY- INEC
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says there will be no e-voting in 2019. Prof. Yakubu said this yesterday in Abuja at the end of a three-day International Conference of Election Management Bodies (EMBs)…
MELAYE STOLE SHOW AS SARS ARREST FAILS, FILES APPEAL IN SUPREME COURT TO RESTRAIN INEC
There was mild drama, yesterday, at 8th fidau prayers for late Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Buba Jubril, in Lokoja, Kogi State, as operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, failed to arrest the senator representing Kogi…
DINO MELAYE: INEC RELEASES TIMETABLE FOR RECALL
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the timetable for the recall of Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West). The Kogi State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. James Apam, said following the Appeal Court’s ruling that the recall can start,…
2019 ELECTION: INEC, VOTERS AND RELUCTANT OPTIMISM
As the nation races toward 2019 general election, many strange things are happening daily in our political space; some heartening and others, undesirable. Particularly echoing on this wavelength is the demand for a robust political partisanship. A move that is…
INEC UNCOVERS FAKE REGISTRATION CENTRE IN KWARA
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has uncovered an illegal voter registration centre in Offa, Kwara State. INEC Administrative Secretary in Kwara, Mr Paul Atser, made this known in a statement in Ilorin on Friday. “It has come…
INEC: OHANAEZE NDIGBO RAISES ALARM OVER DISENFRANCHISING
Igbo umbrella body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has raised the alarm that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is deliberately disenfranchising the people of the South-East zone by not giving them access to the ongoing continuous voter registration. The group also alleged that there…
ALLEGED GRATIFICATION: EFCC RE-ARRAIGNS FORMER KWARA INEC SECRETARY
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday re-arraigned a former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Administrative Secretary in Kwara State, Mr. Christian Nwosu on charges of accepting gratification. Nwosu was charged alongside Tijani Bashir, as well as former…
2019: INEC DECLARES 229 NAMES OF ALIENS DISCOVERED IN VOTERS’ REGISTER
In a bid to further ensure the fidelity of the register of voters to be used for the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) has declared that about 229 names of aliens discovered in the Voters’ Register for…