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PDP Secretariat Set Ablaze In Massive Bayelsa Protest

February 14, 2020 8:42 am

Tension has risen to the crescendo in Bayelsa State as aggrieved Bayelsans and APC supporters embarked on massive protest following INEC’s declaration of PDP Douye Diri as the state’s governor-elect.

Hundreds of angry youths and women, Friday trooped to major streets of Yenagoa, protesting the Supreme Court verdict that sacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the November 16 gubernatorial election. They set the PDP’s Secretariat in the State ablaze.

Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC), had declared the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Douye Diri, winner of the Bayelsa governorship election after series of meeting with stakeholders

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Elections

Results Of General Elections Have Vanished – INEC

February 14, 2020 5:04 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has raised fears that the results and data of the 1999 and 2003 general elections were missing.

The commission’s National Commissioner on Election and Party Monitoring, Prof. Anthonia Okosi-Simbina made this known on Thursday.

Prof. Okosi-Simbina, a former member of the Nigeria Institute of Social and Economic Research, however, added that researchers did not find it difficult to trace the 2019 general elections results which were already online.

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She said this during a one-day workshop to look at the proposed compendium of the

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ADP

ADP Woos Members Of Deregistered Political Parties

February 8, 2020 3:45 am
Less that 52 hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deregistered 74 political parties for failing to win  any seat in the last general elections, the Action Democratic Party (ADP), has called on members of the defunct parties to join the party in order to address the challenges Nigeria is faced with.
ADP National Chairman, Yabaji Sani, who stated this at a press briefing yesterday in Abuja, commended the parties for going through the rigor of registering their parties and participating in several elections.
“Our Party is using this medium to invite all genuine credible men and women of
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INEC

Abia Rerun: INEC Issues Certificates Of Return To Winners

January 30, 2020 7:19 am
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has issued certificates of return to the winners of the January 25, 2020 rerun election held in Arochukwu and Abia south constituencies of Abia State.

Addressing the winners and their supporters at the INEC headquarters in Umuahia, the state capital, Wednesday, the Resident Electoral commissions (REC), Joseph IIoh, explained that the rerun election was pursuant to the orders of the court of Appeal, Owerri that the exercise be conducted in definite polling units in Arochukwu and Aba South Local Government Areas of Abia.

He noted that the general elections have come and gone,

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APC

Inec: Apc Can’t Replace Akpabio For Akwa Ibom Rerun

December 16, 2019 10:25 am

Says time for substitution over

The All Progressives Congress (APC) may not field a candidate for the January 25, 2020 senatorial rerun in Akwa Ibom State, ordered by the Court of Appeal, THISDAY learnt at the weekend.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would not allow the party to replace its candidate for the rerun, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who last week withdrew from the rerun in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom North-west senatorial district.

The Court of Appeal, while giving judgment in a petition by Akpabio challenging the declaration of Senator Chris Ekpenyong of the …

INEC: We only experimented with Server in 2018

INEC: We only experimented with Server in 2018

June 18, 2019 3:14 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday insisted that the results of the 2019 general election were not transmitted electronically to its server, stressing that the commission only experimented with the technology during some staggered elections held in 2018.

The commission said that the clarification was necessary because of rising controversy on the transmission of 2019 presidential election results from states to the INEC server.

Speaking during the post-election retreat organised by the commission for its staff and ad hoc staff engaged for the last general elections in Osun State, INEC National Commissioner, Mr. Solomon Soyebi, explained that many factors …

PDP to INEC: declare our candidate winner of Kano election

March 23, 2019 6:00 pm

The People’s Democratic Party ( PDP ) has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately declare its candidate, Abba K. Yusuf, as the winner of the Kano governorship election.

Rejecting the conduct of the March 23 supplementary election in Nasarawa local government on Saturday, the main opposition party asked INEC to uphold the result of the March 9 first ballot, where the party scored the highest number of lawful votes and secured the statutory 25% in two-thirds of the local governments in the state.

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Court to INEC: show cause for continuation of Bauchi polls

March 19, 2019 7:39 am
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) to appear before it and show cause why it should not stop the planned conclusion of the suspended results for Tafawa Balewa Local Government in respect of the last governorship election in Bauchi State.

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo, in a ruling on Tuesday, restated his earlier order made on Monday in an ex-parte motion by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the incumbent Governor, Muhammed Abubakar.

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