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What INEC Wants To Achieve In Osun Guber – Mahmood

July 4, 2022 7:18 pm

Professor Mahmood Yakubu who is the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),  has openly revealed that the electoral umpire has put out directives which would help the Osun State governorship election to be much better streamlined than the recently concluded Ekiti State governorship poll and the upcoming 2023 general elections too.

The INEC Chief had stated this on Monday while inspecting non-sensitive materials at the INEC office, Osogbo, alongside Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Abdulganiy Raji, with other officials of the commission. He also urged electoral officers of INEC to be proactive in their duties ahead of …

CVR Online Registration Remains Suspended, INEC Clarifies

INEC Chairman Reveals Extension Of Voters’ Registration Process

June 25, 2022 3:35 pm

As he caves in to the mounted pressures to extend the date for the Continuous Voter Registration exercise, Professor Mahmood Yakubu who is the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has made announcements that the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration which had been initially scheduled to come to an end on the 30th of June, 2022, has been adequately extended.

Professor Mahmood Yakubu made this announcement on Saturday.

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The Federal High Court in Abuja had earlier stopped INEC from ending the ongoing voter registration exercise.

Professor Yakubu, during

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2023 Polls Court Blocks INEC From Ending Voter Registration

INEC Confirms Arrest Of Security Official For Selling PVC Forms

June 22, 2022 2:17 pm

Some of the detectives from the Department of Security Service, DSS, Port Harcourt branch have detained a guard attached to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers State for selling some of their sensitive materials.

INEC had also made confirmations that the guard arrested is attached to its Eligbolo Registration Centre in Obio/Akpor area office on allegation of extortion of money from members of the public.

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In a press statement by signed by Geraldine Ekelemu,Public Affairs officer for Mr. Obong Effanga, the Rivers State Resident Electoral Commissioner, said, “The Independent

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INEC Barred From Ending Registration – Federal High Court

June 20, 2022 9:50 am

In a fresh decree, the Federal High Court in Abuja has completely barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which is the country’s electoral umpire from ending the process of voter registration on June 30, 2022.

Honourable Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon (Court 10) on Monday had openly granted an order of interim injunction which was following the hearing of an argument on motion exparte by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).

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SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, had made this disclosure in a statement today.

SERAP and 185 concerned Nigerians had early

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INEC Insists On Rejecting Akpabio, Lawan's Senatorial Tickets

Extortion: INEC Queries, Fires 2 PVC Registration Staff

June 19, 2022 8:58 pm

As a result of the rising spate of reports against the commission’s agents about extortion and bribery, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Benue State on Sunday has announced that it has issued queries to two of its staff for allegedly extorting PVC registrants in Oju Local Government Area.

INEC also announced that the commission will be completely withdrawing the two officers from the ongoing voters’ registration process in the community.

Shehu Abdulwahab who is the the administrative secretary of INEC in Benue made this announcement in a  statement signed by him.

He said the two staff were said …

INEC Insists On Rejecting Akpabio, Lawan's Senatorial Tickets

Osun State INEC To Extend Date Of PVC Collection Deadline

June 19, 2022 10:13 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Osun State chapter has finally announced an extension of its deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for prospective voters.

The Electoral Commission had also reiterated and assured that it would make the registration and collection of PVCs available to every ward across the 31 local government areas in the state from Wednesday, June 22, 2022.

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Oluwaseun Osimosu who is the Public Affairs Officer, INEC Osun State who made the statement signed had assured that the electoral umpire announced that prospective voters …

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Reps Orders INEC To Extend CVR Exercise By 60 Days

June 15, 2022 5:47 pm

In one of their recent sessions, the Nigerian House of Representatives at plenary has on Wednesday, mandated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to give an extension on the ongoing Continous Voters Registration, CVR, exercise by 60 days.

The directive followed a motion by the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Benjamin Kalu who represents Bende Federal constituency of Abia State.

The House also asked INEC to deploy additional Staff and Voters Registration Machines across the country.

According to Kalu, the ongoing CVR by the Commission would end on 30 June 2022, ahead of the 2023 general …

INEC Raises Concern Over Security Ahead Of 2023 Elections

INEC Indefinitely Stops CVR Operations In Anambra

June 3, 2022 2:15 pm

Fresh reports hitting the desk of Africa Daily News, New York have revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday has reported that it has shut operations in four troubled local government areas of Anambra State, where cases of insecurity have become rife.

Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of INEC in Anambra State, Dr. Nkwachukwu Orji stated this during a press conference at the commission’s headquarters in Awka Anambra’ State capital.

The commission said the ongoing continuous voters registration (CVR) exercise across the country can no longer be held in the affected areas because of cases of gunmen attack.…

2023 INEC May Relocate Sensitive Materials From CBN - Yakubu

INEC Boss, Mahmood Expresses Worry Ahead Of Elections

May 26, 2022 1:01 pm

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu has expressed a lot of worries about the level of money politics which have been threatening Nigeria’s democracy ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Yakubu said that money politics is becoming more present, adding that the risk is that Nigeria’s democracy may soon become a plutocracy for the rich rather than a democracy for the people.

He spoke at an event organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in collaboration with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) in Abuja on Wednesday.

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INEC Raises Concern Over Security Ahead Of 2023 Elections

INEC Raises Concern Over Security Ahead Of 2023 Elections

May 14, 2022 4:04 am

Ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised serious concerns about the security challenges in the country.

With the polls due in nine months, it, however, allayed fears that the elections might not hold due to security threats.

INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, expressed these fears while speaking yesterday in Abuja at the second quarterly meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES).

He pointed out that there is enough time for the security agencies to address the situation to ensure people go to their various polling units without concerns …

2023 INEC May Relocate Sensitive Materials From CBN - Yakubu

2023: INEC May Relocate Sensitive Materials From CBN – Yakubu

May 13, 2022 4:03 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that it would employ both the manual and electronic methods of transmission in transmitting the 2023 election results even as it disclosed that the commission is considering moving sensitive materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria to another location following the involvement of the bank chief in politics.

The chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made these assertions during a consultative meeting with the media in Abuja on Thursday which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

While responding to a question on the political ambition and partisanship of the governor …

2023 INEC Blocks Plan To Extend Deadline For Party Primaries

2023: INEC Blocks Plan To Extend Deadline For Party Primaries

May 11, 2022 6:14 am

The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has reiterated that the June 3 deadline for political parties primaries and other timelines for the 2023 election remains sacrosanct.

Yakubu made this submission at INEC’s quarterly consultative meeting with leaders of 18 registered political parties on Tuesday in Abuja.

The INEC boss spoke as the IPAC National Chairman, Yabagi Sani, appealed to the Commission to extend the June 3 deadline for primaries for the 2023 general election till August.

Yakubu stressed that any extension in the timeline for an activity would affect other activities and put unnecessary pressure …

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