INEC Archives - Page 7 of 11

Mar

08

2023

INEC shifts Governorship, State Assembly Elections To March 18

Lifestyle, Metro, Politics2023, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics

Barring any further extensions, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reached a decision to postpone Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections to March 18, 2023, the postponement was due to the commission’s inability to promptly commence reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines utilized during the February 25 presidential election to enable their use in the state elections. INEC was earlier restrained from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until due inspection was conducted and Certified True Copies (CTC) issued to candidates who are challenging the outcome of the presidential election. INEC Chairman Yakubu…

Mar

07

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

2023 Poll: Ohanaeze Youths Insist; New Electoral Law Do Not Recognize Tinubu As President-Elect

News, Opinion, Politics2023, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, Next Level, Nigeria, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Opinion, Politics

The apex socio-cultural youth organization of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has aligned itself with the position of the leader of the apex socio-cultural Yoruba group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo who noted that Nigeria is yet to have a President-Elect. Commenting on the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections which was heavily fraught with irregularities, violence, electoral fraud and rigging, the National President of Ohanaeze Youth Council OYC, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, urged Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to tell Nigerians the deal he struck with the APC and its…

Mar

06

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Timi Frank urges INEC Chairman, Yakubu to resign

Opinion, Politics2023, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, Next Level, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, Timi Frank

A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Monday, called on the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to as a matter of urgency resign of his appointment or President Muhammadu Buhari should do the needful by relieving him of his position for conducting the worst ever rigged election in the history of Nigeria.He called on President Buhari to be courageous enough to sack Professor Yakubu for bringing shame and opprobrium to the country by declaring highly compromised and heavily doctored results as an…

Mar

05

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

How INEC deficiencies may mar March 11 polls

Opinion, Politics2023, INEC, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics

There are indications that the governorship and State Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday, March 11 may be marred by apathy following the alleged betrayal of trust by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, during the just concluded elections. Electorates who are angered by the irregularities allegedly exhibited by some INEC officials at the last Saturday presidential and National Assembly elections have vowed never to vote again. Recall that opposition parties particularly, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, had alleged that the electoral body was compelled to manipulate the results that produced Bola Tinubu of the ruling…

Mar

04

2023

By Amos Oge Kalu

Police parade suspected electoral offenders in Cross River

Metro, Opinion, Politics2023, Crime, INEC, Metro, Nigeria, Police, Politics

The Police Command in Cross River on Saturday paraded 16 suspects arrested for various alleged electoral offences in the Ogoja Local Government Area of the state. The Command spokesperson, SP Irene Ugbo, who addressed newsmen while parading them, said the suspects were caught with arms and ammunition during their arrest in Ogoja after the polls. Ugbo stated that the arrest followed a diligent manhunt for those that disrupted some voting centres in the council area during the polls. “You will recall that the command had issued several warnings to the people not to allow themselves to be used by desperate…