The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Mal. Mohammed Haruna and six other nominees appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari as National Commissioners and Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The confirmation of the nominees on Wednesday followed the consideration of a report by the Senate committee on INEC. Those confirmed include Mal. Mohammed Haruna (Niger […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, on Friday disclosed it would beam its searchlight on politicians and political parties to track the sources of funds for their campaigns in the 2023 general election. Speaking at a policy roundtable event on political campaign finance organised by The Electoral Forum in Abuja on Friday, the INEC Chairman, […]
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Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has won the Anambra governorship election, polling a total of 112,229 votes to defeat his two major rivals — Valentine Ozigbo of the PDP who got 53,807 votes, and Andy Uba of the All Progressives […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained why permanent voter cards (PVCs) were still being distributed the evening before the Anambra governorship election. Recall that on October 26, INEC announced that 81,778 new PVCs would be delivered to Anambra on October 28 for distribution ahead of the November 6 election. However, speaking on Friday in an […]
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Some unknown gunmen had on Sunday set ablaze the newly-completed office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) located at Okwudor community in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State. INEC made this disclosure in a statement by Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee. According to Okoye, the […]
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An office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia state has been set ablaze by hoodlums. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. Festus Okoye, made this known in a statement issued Monday in Abuja. According to him, the Resident Electoral Commissioner for the […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended Saturday’s Ekiti East 1 State Constituency by-election over cases of violence. The Commission declared the indefinite suspension in a statement issued by the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in Abuja on Saturday. Mr Okoye said that the Commission received a […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it will continue to recognise only 18 political parties until the litigation on deregistration is resolved. The electoral body advised the 74 deregistered parties to await the judgment of the Supreme Court on appeals relating to the powers of the Commission to deregister them in accordance […]
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It was a day of change of batons in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC even if temporary, as the Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu temporarily step aside. He handed over the affairs of the commission to National Commissioner, retired Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Ahmed Mu’azu pending the confirmation of his second tenure. […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed to proceed to the supreme court for a final judgement on its powers to deregister political parties. INEC said it will seek the verdict of the apex court over a judgement of the court of appeal that voided its deregisteration of 22 political parties. Though the court […]
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