The recently concluded governorship and State House of Assembly polls in Ebonyi state was characterised by violence in some places and while the atmosphere was peaceful in some areas of the state. AMARACHUKWU EGWUAGHA in Abakaliki reports. Ebonyi state, like every other state in Nigeria, joined in the process of electing the new leaders on Saturday, March 18, to Read More
Labour Party governorship candidate in the last Saturday’s election, Chief Alex Otti stormed Abuja on Tuesday vowing that his victory at the polls so far cannot be upturned. The LP candidate who spoke in a press conference in Abuja said with his 172000 votes in 10 local governments against PDP’s 80,000, he maintained a distant lead in the 16 local Read More
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to electronically transmit the Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly’s election results in accordance with its regulations and guidelines. In a judgment, Justice Obiora Egwuatu also ordered the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to upload a scanned copy of the EC8A to INEC Read More
The Presidential Election Petiton Court (PEPC) sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, Wednesday March 8 granted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the access to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) it used for the presidential and National Assembly. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, held that stopping the electoral body Read More
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organization has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to take a cursory look into the election results being announced for the Southern Borno area of Borno state. PDP in a statement by its spokesperson, Daniel Bwala, said it takes exception to the practice whereby results that are not announced at the Read More
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and some Civil Society Organisations such as Yiaga Africa Watching The Vote, Connected Development (CODE) and SituationRoom, Sunday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cause no further delay in uploading results of the presidential election in the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV). The PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Read More
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has reminded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the danger of subverting the will of the people of Nigeria in the Presidential and National Assembly elections. President of NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, while reacting to the reported violence that engulfed the conduct of elections in some parts of the country, said the Congress expect Read More
SituationRoom has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be consistent with the legal framework and guidelines for elections, to be transparent and credible in the collation of results. Convener, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room Ene Obi, Co-Convener Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, Asma’u Joda and Co-Convener, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, James Ugochukwu in a joint second Read More
The presidential and National Assembly elections in Kano was on Saturday greeted by lack of interest on the part of male voters, even as women in their large numbers demonstrated their enthusiasm to vote candidates of their choice. Blueprint correspondent who scouted round some of the towns in Kano observed that polling units were almost filled to the brim as early Read More
National Chairman of the Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure, has raised alarm over the impunity taking place across Lagos state where the results of the presidential elections collated in various polling units in the state were not being uploaded to the central server. According to LP’s National Chairman Julius Abure, in a statement on Saturday evening, the officials of the Read More
At its last meeting on February 10, the National Council of State agreed that the 2023 general elections were set to kick off with the brief it received from relevant stakeholders including security chiefs. The February 25 date was therefore confirmed by the highest advisory body in the country which comprises the president, vice-president, all former presidents and Heads of Read More
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state has decried the late arrival of materials for the Presidential, Senatorial and House of Representatives elections in most parts of the state, even as he voted in his polling Unit 033, Ipong Ward by 2:08pm on Saturday. Blueprint gathered that the governor, who was unimpressed and expressed sadness over the situation, called on Read More
Kano state Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, says the introduction of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will enhance the credibility of the 2023 general election. He said this on Saturday shortly after casting his vote at Cikin-Gari Ward, Unit 008 at Ganduje in Dawakin-Tofa Local Government Area of the state. Ganduje noted that Read More
After hours of delay due to late arrival of materials, voting commenced 12 noon at poling unit 048 MPH Estate Danhonu II, Millennium City, Chikun local government of Kaduna state, though some voters could not vote due to BIVAS failure. The Presiding Officer of the polling unit, Saidu Aliyu, blamed the delayed arrival of materials on logistic, saying, “The delay Read More
After the initial hiccup on BVAS mixup, former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has finally cast his vote. Obasanjo voted at his polling unit 2, ward 11 situated inside Olushomi compound, Totoro – Sokori in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State Addressing newsmen thereafter, Obasanjo said Nigeria is making progress in its electoral process with the Bimodal Voter’s Accreditation System Read More
The Osun state resident electoral commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Dr. Mutiu Agboke, has disclosed that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS), has helped the commission to expose overvoting in the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the state. He said the commission has learned enough lessons on how the BVAS machine could be manipulated, saying there Read More
Contrary to doubt expressed by the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Adamu on the use of BVAS by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the party has distanced itself from the position. The party said Adamu did not kick against the deployment of BVAS or electronic transmission of results as reported by sections of the Read More
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) Thursday said the concerns raised by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) over the proposed use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System for the 2023 general election, has confirmed its intelligence discovery that the ruling party was behind the move to sack the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yakubu Mahmoud. APC National Read More
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