In the African Leadership Magazine (AfricanLeadership.co.UK/)’s on-going online poll, Nigeria’s Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has taken the lead as the best performing public institution in the country with 28.6% of the total vote casts. The African Leadership Magazine’s Poll indicates Nigerians faith in INEC to conduct free, fair and credible elections in the country, following […]
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Observer groups to the recently concluded Edo governorship election have declared that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reportedly rigged the polls in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Vanguard reports that two different observer groups; Alliance for Credible Elections (ACE) and Public Interest Association, a coalition of accredited election observers announced their […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed the Edo state governorship election by two weeks The decision was reached hours after the electoral body announced that it would go ahead with the election. Meanwhile, just before the Edo governorship election was postponed, the Cross River Police Command was alleged to have tasked the 550 […]
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The former governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor, Prof. Maurice Iwu and 116 others have been indicted by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) report on ending electoral impunity for committing various electoral offences in the 2007/2011 elections. Dr. Uduagahan and other indicted persons are said to have committed various forms […]
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Osagie Ize-Iyamu, is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Edo Sept. 10 governorship election, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Nick Dazang, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Deputy Director for Voter Education and Publicity, disclosed this in an interview with NAN on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr. Dazang said the decision to […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has released dates for the conduct of governorship elections in both Edo and Ondo States. The commission said that while governorship election would hold on September 10 in Edo State, it said that Ondo would take its turn on November 26, 2016. INEC’s Deputy Director in charge of Voter Education […]
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that his administration will support the conduct of free and fair legislative rerun elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the state. He was, however, quick to warn that manipulators will be dealt with decisively. The governor stressed that people of the state will resist […]
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Today, the apex court in our country upheld the victory of Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa as the 4th democratically elected Executive Governor of Delta State. His victory can no longer be appealed except to wait for another gubernatorial election in 2019. It is a truism that Deltans will have to make do with whatever […]
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Delta Central Senator-elect, Obaisi Ovie Omo-Agege has just received his Certificate of Return from INEC’s National Commissioner in charge of South South, Dr. Mohammed Mustapha Lecky in a brief ceremony at INEC Headquarters in Abuja today. The Court of Appeal judgment ordered INEC to nullify and void the Certificate of Return it issued to Chief […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission will conduct 78 re-run elections in 2016, the commission said on Thursday in Abuja, in its daily bulletin. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the re-run elections will hold across the country, based on verdicts issued by the Court of Appeal. “Most of the court verdicts were given in December […]
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