The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is laying the foundation for the rigging of the 2023 election through the manual collation of results. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye in…
PRESS RELEASE SUSPENSION OF THE CONTINUOUS VOTER REGISTRATION (CVR) The Commission met in an extraordinary session today, Friday 15th July 2022, and discussed among other things, the suspension of the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). This followed the judgement delivered by the Federal High Court on Wednesday 13th July 2022 in which it dismissed the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared new dates for the 2023 general elections. According to the new dates, Presidential and National Assembly elections will now hold on Saturday, February 25, 2023, while governorship and state houses of assembly elections will hold on March 11, 2023. Addressing journalists at a news conference in Abuja,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it plans to review the performance and functionalities of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS ) during the Saturday’s FCT Area Council Poll. Mr Yahaya Bello, the FCT INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner(REC) said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja….
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, say 749 polling units have been removed from inappropriate facilities, with nine of them from shrines and several others from religious houses, royal palaces, and private property. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners RECs. From the initial…
The independent National Electoral Commission has vowed to introduced new innovations of registering all qualified citizens with the aim of conducting credible,free and fair Elections come 2023. The Chairman of the commission professor Mahmood Yakubu during a workshop on the review of the 2017/2018 Nationwide continuos voter registration, held in Kano. The Chairman who was…
