 After long hours of voting yesterday across the length and breadth of the country by Nigerians amidst allegations of widespread voting irregularities in a much awaited 2023 General Elections, vote counting, collation and announcements of results are ongoing in Nigeria. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Yakubu Mahmoud opened…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday announced the 2023 presidential election results for Ekiti State. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ekiti, Ayobami Salami reeled out the results at the 2023 presidential election collation centre at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. He said Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled…
By Kazeem Akolawole The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has admitted to having challenges with its Results Viewing Portal. The commission, in a statement on Sunday, February 26, and signed by Festus Okoye, INEC national commissioner and chairman of Voter Education Committee, and Publicity, stated that “Unlike in offseason elections where the portal…
Yiaga Africa, a civil society organisation (CSO), says it will expose the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) if the poll results are manipulated. At a press briefing in Abuja on Sunday, Hussaini Abdu, chair of Yiaga Africa ‘Watching The Vote’, said the organisation has observers across the country and is monitoring to know if INEC’s…
, Alkali Baba By Gom Mirian The Inspector General of Police (IGP), has described the 2023 general elections as the most peaceful and best organized elections he witnessed in his career as a policeman. Alkali Baba said this in Abuja while addressing newsmen after touring eight polling stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) According…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the US President Joe Biden to exercise his powers “pursuant to the Presidential Proclamations 7750 and 8697 and the Immigration and Nationality Act to ban Nigerian officials, politicians and other perpetrators and sponsors of violence during the just concluded elections.” SERAP also urged Mr Biden to “use…
The Labour Party (LP) has faulted the process of collating the result of last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),saying it will challenge the outcome in court. LP alleged that most of its members were deliberately disenfranchised through varied means across the country, but were more discerning in…
Prof. Yakubu By Juliet Jacob The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it is ready for the announcements of the Presidential and National Assembly elections conducted yesterday. The collation centre will now open for the announcement by 6 pm, according to INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Yakubu had said on Saturday that…
By Kazeem Akolawole As voters express dissatisfaction over malfunctioning of Bimodal Voters Accreditation, (BVAS) machine in states across the country and lateness of staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission to polling units, Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has raised the alarm over stealing of the machines at PUs. Addressing journalists on Saturday…
By Kazeem Akolawole Residents of who came out as early as 7am, to exercise their franchise in the Presidential and National Assembly Elections on Saturday have lamented late arrival of INEC officials and voting materials in their polling units As at 11.30am in major polling centres in Magboro, Ogun State, INEC officials were yet…
