The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Saturday, postponed the state House of Assembly election across Mopamuro Local Government Area of Kogi state. The Electoral Officer, Mopamuro LGA, Opanachi Ojodale, told the News Agency of Nigeria, at the INEC office in Mopa, that the election was postponed to Sunday, March 10, due to wrong ballot papers […]
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The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, says Nigeria is currently experiencing full blown dictatorship. Secondus stataed that the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has never been as compromised as it was in the just concluded presidential election. Speaking at the PDP expanded national caucus meeting in Abuja […]
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Nigeria’s main opposition party, PDP, has rejected the yet to be concluded result of the presidential election. The PDP, in a statement by its national chairman, Uche Secondus, said the results being announced do not tally with what the party has collated across the country. “Firstly, I want to categorically state that our collation centers […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced the postponement of the elections in some parts of Lagos, Rivers and Anambra States following disruption of the exercise due to violence. Specifically, INEC said elections in Akuku Toru and Bonny local government areas of Rivers state as well as some parts of Anambra and Lagos would […]
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Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says more than one million persons on the national voter register are dead. Secondus said this on Tuesday during an emergency meeting of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in Abuja. He said the PDP has evidence that “over 1,050,051 dead voters will vote in this […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lifted the ban on electoral campaigns. In a statement issued on Monday after a meeting, the commission reviewed its earlier position and lifted the ban. The statement signed by National Commissioner Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, the Commission allowed for campaigns to resume immediately and terminate at […]
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The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suggested that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was behind the postponement of the general election because it was heading for defeat. Expressing disappointment with the postponement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Festus Keyamo, the spokesman of the council, said PDP social media influencers […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rescheduled presidential and national assembly elections. The elections will now hold on February 23. The governorship and state assembly elections will now hold on March 9. He said the decision was taken after a careful review of the plan for the exercise. “Following a careful review of the […]
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The Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Mr Abdulrazak Namdas (APC-Adamawa) says burning of card readers at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Anambra is unfortunate. Namdas in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, said preventive measures should be put in place to forestall future occurrence […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari says he is all out for free, fair and credible elections starting on February 16. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said the president gave the assurance at a meeting with traditional rulers at the secretariat complexes of the Councils of Traditional Rulers in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, […]
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