Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC), emerged victorious in 27 local government areas in the just-concluded election, with the collation completed at 08:30 am on Sunday. The collation of results is currently taking place at the State Collation Centre in Owerri, ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Presidential Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja yesterday admitted in evidence a bundle of exhibits containing the total number of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, collected in 32 states of the federation before the 2023 general elections. Equally admitted in ...

The Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Monday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) refused to provide the documents they asked for. Obi and the LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election of President ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri Following a summon issued on him, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, yesterday produced before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, a document that contained President Bola Tinubu’s age. The ...

By Ise-Oluwa Ige In this report, Saturday Vanguard examines the five lawsuits filed at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja to stop Bola Ahmed Tinubu from Aso Villa, critiques the tribunal’s composition and the level of trust top lawyers have in the panel members and argues that ...

By Chidi Odinkalu Evidence of the scope of the mess created by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, under the crooked leadership of Mahmood Yakubu began to emerge this past week. It all suggests network of egregiousness on a monumental scale that easily rivals the elections ...

By Clifford Ndujihe, John Alechenu & Dickson Omobola It is no longer news that controversies and disputations are dogging the outcome of the 2023 general elections. More than 500 cases at the various election petition tribunals attest to that. Issues from Adamawa State where the Resident ...

By Olalekan Bilesanmi & Dickson Omobola N207 billion may have been expended on 68 million Nigerians who registered to vote in the 2023 elections but for one reason or another ended up not being able to perform that civic responsibility. The inability to vote has been blamed on alleged ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been berated for allegedly issuing Certificate of Return to a wrong candidate in Ogun State. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State said INEC was wrong to have presented the Certificate of Return in Ikenne State Constituency to ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of installing a third-party device he said was used to intercept and switch results of the presidential election that was held on February ...

By Ifreke Inyang The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has so far announced 26 candidates as Governor-elects following the March 18 polls. On Wednesday, Alex Otti of the Labour Party, LP, was declared winner of the governorship election in Abia state. Peter Mbah of the ...

Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to quickly declare the results of Abia State governorship election held on Saturday to avoid bloodbath in the state. Similarly, Abia State human rights and pro- democracy groups have called on the INEC ...

Following the dissatisfaction of some electorate in the management of the governorship and state assembly elections, protests rocked some states, yesterday, against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Angry voters objected to the delay tactics of the electoral body in ...

By  Esther Blankson A Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to electronically transmit the results of the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections in line with regulations and guidelines. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment on ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has banned party agents or anyone affiliated to political parties from taking Point of Sale (POS) machines to polling units across Anambra State. Also banned from being taken into polling centres are any material that are capable of being used ...

By  Gift Habib The ongoing reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines used during the presidential and National Assembly elections on 25 February will end on Monday, The PUNCH has learnt. The Independent National Electoral Commission had postponed the governorship and ...

The Supreme Court has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to replace Ibrahim Shekarau with Rufai Hanga as the Kano Central senatorial candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). In a judgment delivered on Friday by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, the Supreme Court ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Gift Habib, Dirisu Yakubu and Dirisu Yakubu The Labour Party, on Thursday, knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission, saying the electoral umpire deliberately came up with its idea of reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines after its ...

By Dickson Omobola SOME Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, under the aegis of Democracy Protection Coalition, DPC, yesterday, called on the Board of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to suspend the commission’s Chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud, over the conduct of the ...

By  Onozure Dania The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to directly and electronically upload from the polling units to the IReV the results of the forthcoming, governorship and state House of Assembly elections in Lagos State. ...

By  Peter Dada The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has condemned the outcome of the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election, won by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. The group also faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission on the conduct ...

By Ifreke Inyang The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has given reasons it postponed the governorship election by one week. The exercise, which was initially scheduled for this Saturday, will now take place on March 18. The National Commissioner & Chairman Information ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nod to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential ...

Tinubu seeks order to inspect election materials •PDP raises the alarm over alleged plan to erase, destroy evidence of rigging •Opposition parties insist reconfiguration of BVAS will tamper with evidence Chuks Okocha and Alex Enumah in Abuja The Court of Appeal in Abuja, yesterday, ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, on Tuesday, kicked against the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, it used for the presidential election. The Situation Room, which ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Dirisu Yakubu and Esther Blankson The Independent National Electoral Commission has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court to vary the orders that were granted to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, ...

By  El-Ameen Ibrahim The Spokesperson for the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye, has claimed the Independent National Electoral Commission spent over N400billion on the presidential election he described as “a caricature show”. The spokesperson disclosed this in a ...

By John Alechenu and Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, were at loggerheads, over the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the protest embarked upon ...

By John Alechenu, Abuja The Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa are currently leading a protest today (Monday) to the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Abuja. ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Dirisu Yakubu and Nathaniel Shaibu The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Iyorchia Ayu, will on Monday (today) lead some governors elected on the platform of the party on a protest march to the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters, ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has admitted that issues of logistics, election technology, behaviour of some election personnel at different levels, attitude of some party agents and supporters added to the extremely challenging environment in last week’s election. INEC ...

By Dayo Johnson; Chidi Nkwopara, Samuel Oyadongha; Peter Duru; Egufe Yafugborhi; Marie-Therese Nanlong; James Ogunnaike; Shina Abubakar & Ibrahim Hassan   Obio/Akpor Local Government Area (LGA) Ward 13, Unit 49 in Rumuadaolu, Rivers State is less than five minutes drive from the INEC ...

By Henry Umoru, ABUJA AHEAD of the March 11, 2023 governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections, the Senate yesterday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to adhere strictly to the 1999 Constitution as amended and the Electoral Act 2022 in the conduct of the poll. ...

...As IPAC expresses confidence in Commission Omeiza Ajayi & Favour Ulebor, Abuja Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has expressed the readiness of the commission to review the 2023 general elections as demanded by some political parties “where ...

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja Scores of protesters from different political parties Tuesday stormed the Presidential Collation Centre at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, to demand for electronic transmission of results from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The ...

By  Damilola Olufemi The Independent National Electoral Commission has advised Nigerians to vote for the candidate of their choice in today’s general elections, rather than staying at home and praying. The Head of Voter Education and Publicity Department of the commission, Federal Capital ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said voters are prohibited from going into the voting cubicle with their phones. The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this while addressing the maiden briefing in Abuja on Thursday. He, however, said he is hopeful that the vices ...

By Jide Ajani This report serves as a guide to Nigerians on the steps to be taken at the polling unit on election day, culminating in voting and declaration of results. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, is expected to help reduce the cases of manual manipulation of figures. ...

By  Gift Habib The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Thursday, released the number of collected and uncollected Permanent Voter Cards ahead of the forthcoming elections. PVC collection ended on February 5,  after the commission extended the process twice. A total of 87,209,007 ...

By Davies Iheamnachor, PORT HARCOURT The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has stated that the 2023 elections would hold without bags of money at the polling units, adding that the same would be witnessed during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly polls. INEC also ...

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo The Independent National Electoral Commission has appealed against the judgement of Justice T. A. Kume-led Election Petition Tribunal in Osun State on 44 grounds. To that extent, the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended INEC for ...

By  Godfrey George Only 23 per cent of Nigerians say they trust the Independent National Electoral Commission “somewhat” or “a lot,” while more than three-fourths (78 per cent) express “just a little” or no trust at all in the election-management body, a joint report by NOI Polls, Afrobarometer, ...

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to use Lagos State Parks Management Committee led by Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo to distribute election materials. ...

By Omeiza Ajayi & John Alechenu, ABUJA FOLLOWING the continued scarcity of fuel across the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, raised the alarm that the development could hamper election day logistics. While the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, ...

…Insists no going back on BVAS, IReVl …Real-time polling unit results’ll  be uploaded on IReVl …INEC must manage security threats — IFES By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has lamented the growing wave of election-related insecurity across the ...

By  Ikenna Obianeri The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that youths constitute the highest number of registered voters who will cast votes in the 2023 general election. The National Commissioner of INEC in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Dirisu Yakubu and Gift Habib The Independent National Electoral Commission has imported additional Bimodal Voters Accreditation System machines that will be deployed nationwide in all the polling units for the 2023 elections. The commission, which took delivery of ...

Nine months after they resigned, the seats of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Deputy National Chairman (North) of the party, Senator Abubakar Kyari and the Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Senator Muhammad Hassan Nasiha are still vacant at the ...

No fewer than 6.7 million Nigerians have yet to collect their permanent voter cards less than eigth weeks to the general elections. Data obtained from the state offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday revealed that 6.7 m PVCs were locked up in INEC safes across 17 ...

INEC says the security aagencies will escort all vehicles and boats to locations and also ensure the safety and protection of all election personnel and materials. byAgency Report INEC on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the road transportation and marine workers’ ...