Guidelines and timetable for the governorship election taking place in Edo State on September 10, 2016, have been released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. According to INEC, party primaries will begin from June 2 and end July 4, 2016; campaigns will kick off on Sunday, June 10, 2016, while the official register of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it will conclude the cancelled Chairmanship and Councillorship elections in selected areas in five Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. This information was disclosed on Tuesday afternoon by the Commission. The Area Councils affected are Abaji, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kuje and Abuja…
…As Labour Party Candidates Drag INEC to Court By Hector Spiff Candidates of the Labour Party in Akulga/Asalga Federal and State Constituencies in Rivers State have registered their disenchantment and disapproval over what they termed “ostrich game” played by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, pertaining to the conduct of the recent Rerun polls (Federal…
Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senators in the present National Assembly have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately release the outstanding results in the Rivers State re-run elections particularly results that were collated from polling units, wards, Local Government Areas in their possession. This was part of the resolutions…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the suspension of all the election in all constituencies in Rivers State held on Saturday, March 19, 2016. However, INEC clarified that the suspension does not affect constituencies where polls had been completed and the results declared by the returning officers. The electoral body, in a statement…
Dates for the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States have now been released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. According to the electoral umpire, while the gubernatorial poll in Edo State is slated for September 10, 2016, that of Ondo State will take place on November 26, 2016. Both present governors of the…
The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has cancelled the election of Nyesom Wike as governor of the state. At the sitting on Saturday, the Tribunal, headed by Justice Suleiman Ambrousa, opined that the poll conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in April 2015 that brought Wike into power was…
Election of Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has been upheld by the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ikeja. The Tribunal ruled on Friday that Gbajabiamila’s victory at the March 28 poll was valid. Gbajabiamila contested in the Surulere Federal Constituency I election in Lagos under the platform of the…
The immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, has been named as the new Pro Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Plateau State University. His appointment was announced on Friday by the Plateau State Government via a statement issued in Jos, the state capital, by the…
The use of card readers for the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will be blocked, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has maintained. Speaking with newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja, spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, stressed that the party was rejecting the card readers…