Month: March 2015

After initially not being able to get accredited by the card reading machines provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, President Goodluck Jonathan has eventually be authenticated as a voter for the presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday. The President’s voter’s card was initially rejected by the reading device, as well as his…

The card reading machines deployed for accreditation at the polling unit of President Goodluck Jonathan in his Otueke hometown in Bayelsa State initially messed up. After waiting for over 30 minutes, the President was unable to be accredited the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The first three card reading machines brought to authenticate Jonathan’s Permanent…

INEC Postpones Polls In Jigawa

Elections will not hold in seven out of 11 federal constituencies in Jigawa State, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced. Briefing newsmen on Friday night at a press conference held at the INEC headquarters in Dutse, the state capital, Resident Electoral Commissioner in charge of the state, Halliru Aliyu Tambawal, said the shift…

Media Assistant to a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stalwart in Ondo State, Olusola Oke, Ogunleye Rotimi Williams, has debunked a rumour that his principal has defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement issued on Friday night, Williams not only described the rumour as “untrue” and “satanic”, but a “wicked…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been given the nod to use the controversial card reading machines for the general elections, which kicks off on Saturday, March 28, 2015 (tomorrow). INEC got the go ahead to use the devices from a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday. Justice Ademola Adeniyi, in his…

Senator Gbemisola Saraki has finally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, barely 15 hours to the presidential election on Saturday, March 28, 2015. The daughter of late Olusola Saraki announced her defection from the PDP to APC a moment ago. She is joining her brother, Bukola, a former…