Tag: INEC

Tribunal: Rivers APC withdraws petition against PDP, INEC

Aminu Imam

The Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal has struck out the petition filed by the All Progressive Congress (APC) following the withdrawal by the party’s counsel. With this withdrawal, the governorship candidate of the APC, Tonye Cole remains the only petitioner against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Fubara Siminalayi. Cole is challenging the victory of Siminalayi in the March governorship poll in the state. Drama ensued at the Tribunal as the APC filed an application for change of counsel in their petition…

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“Declare suspended Adamawa REC ‘wanted’ – INEC urges Police

Aminu Imam

…Says his whereabouts unknown The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has said the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, (REC), Hudu Ari, is nowhere to be found. The Commission also urged the Nigeria Police to declare the suspended REC as ‘wanted’, following his declaration of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Senator A’isha Dahiru, popularly known as Binnani, as the winner of the April Adamawa supplementary poll. Festus Okoye, who disclosed this when featured on Channels Television programme yesterday, said, “We don’t know where he is; because, after this particular incident, the…

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‘Tinubu didn’t have to score 25 percent votes in Abuja to be president-elect’ – INEC

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, did not have to score 25 votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) before being declared Nigeria’s President-elect. The President-elect polled 8.8 million votes to beat the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, who came second and Labour Party’s Peter Obi who came third in the 25 February election. To be declared the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, a candidate must also score 25 per cent…

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Supplementary Election: ‘No Governor-elect yet in Adamawa State’ – INEC

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the collation of Saturday’s supplementary governorship election in Adamawa State. National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, Barrister Festus Okoye said on the Commission’s Twitter handle that the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Adamawa state and the Returning Officer have been summoned to Abuja with immediate effect. This followed the premature announcement of the winner of the election when collation had not been concluded by the Resident Electoral Commissioner who is not empowered to do so.

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Certficate-of-Returns presented to Uba Sani as Governor-Elect is temporary – Ashiru

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
Kaduna PDP Governorship Candidate Isa Muhammed Ashiru, Senators, Reps State Assembly Members-Elect on the platform of the party in group photograph at his Kaduna resident after a meeting.

…We will unite to reclaim all stolen mandates – PDP Chair, elected members Kaduna State Peoples Democratic Party PDP Governorship Candidate, Right Honourable Isa Muhammed Ashiru, aftermath the state Gubernatorial and House of Assembly election result, which the party is contesting, had a parley with select Journalists in his Kaduna resident where he claimed the certificate of returns presented to Senator Uba Sani by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC as the winner is temporary as the PDP will reclaim the peoples mandate. Also, all elected members of the National…

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‘Why INEC delayed uploading of results during presidential poll’ – FG

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has disclosed why the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) delayed the uploading of presidential election results to its portal. Speaking with some international media organisations in Washington DC on Monday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, said INEC withheld the uploading of results because of suspected cyber-attacks during the presidential poll. The minister, who spoke with the Washington Post, Voice of America, Associated Press and Foreign Policy magazine, said, “Under our laws today, management of election results is manual and the court has ruled that INEC…

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Tinubu: INEC hires Ex-NBA President, 8 other SANs to defend election

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appointed nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria to defend the outcomes of the presidential election on February 25. According to reports, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), Abubakar Mahmoud, will lead the group (SAN). Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN), Miannaya Essien (SAN), and Abdullahi Aliyu are additional team members, who work for INEC’s legal department and are team members together with Garba Hassan, Musa Attah, and Patricia Obi. For the defense of the outcomes of the gubernatorial and State Assembly…

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2023: INEC reveals date for supplementary elections

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has fixed 15th of April, 2023 for the completion of all pending governorship, national, and state assembly supplementary elections. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, disclosed this yesterday at a press conference. Although governorship and legislative elections have been concluded in most parts of Nigeria, the elections were declared inconclusive in some states and legislative districts. The Commission, therefore, said it would announce a new date for the election. INEC wrote on its Twitter page yesterday afternoon: “Arising from its…

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INEC to issue Certificates of Return to Govs-elect, others from March 29

Aminu Imam

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has fixed Wednesday, March 29 to Friday March 31 as days for the issuance of Certificates of Return to Governors, Deputy governors-elect and States Houses of Assembly members-elect. Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye made the declaration in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday. “By the provisions of Section 72(1) of the Electoral Act 2022, the Commission is mandated to issue a certificate of return within 14 days to every candidate who has been returned elected under the law.…

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INEC declares winner of Enugu Governorship election

Aminu Imam

Dr. Peter Mbah, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate for governor of Enugu State has won the election conducted on March 18. He scored 160,895 votes to defeat his closest rival, Chijioke Edeoga, of the Labour Party (LP), who polled 157,552 votes. Frank Nweke Jnr. of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) scored 17,983, while Chief Uche Nnaji, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scored 14,575 votes to come a distant third and fourth respectively. The Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, Prof Maduebibisi…

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