According to a statement by the Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of the party, Taiwo Olatubosun, the party took the step to let the world know the truth about Ekiti State election miracle where a governor with unrivaled sterling performance failed to win a single local government out of the16 local governments of the state, including his own
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Such places to be covered, based on Abba’s order, include Internally Displaced Persons camps, media houses, service providers installations, the headquarters and other offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission, banks, hospitals, lodges of the National Youth Service Corps, hotels and government offices among others
Biden commended President Jonathan and General Buhari for signing the Abuja Accord in mid-January as a show of their commitment to non-violence throughout the election process
The INEC chairman stated this during an interactive session with the Civil Society Situation Room, a coalition of over 60 civil society organisations
The APCPCO said in a statement on Wednesday, signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, its Director of Media and Publicity, that the petition follows the massive terror unleashed on the residents of Lagos State by armed pro-Jonathan groups under the dubious cover of a faction of the Oodua People’s Congress
While Jega simply said the meeting went well, the Chief of Army staff, Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah, said it was up to INEC to decide whether to go ahead with the polls or not
The basis of their demand, they said were the perceived irregularities in the commission in the build up to the 2015 general elections scheduled for March 28 and April 11
The group insisted that the chairman has since lost the capability of conducting the forthcoming general elections for the country
The presiding judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, said the court was embarrassed by the claim of the party officials at a press conference that in its judgment of March 4, 2015, it ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to shift the 2015 elections in order to accommodate the party in the polls
Jega stated this during a meeting with members of the Inter-Party Advisory Council in Abuja
The group in a statement jointly signed by the Coordinator, Chief Toye Ogunsheyi, and Secretary General, Hon. Tunde Oladapo, observed that since the collection and distribution of the Permanent Voter Cards had been extended to March 22, INEC should make the best use of the opportunity to justify the confidence reposed in it
Speaking when he led a team of the Council of the Wise of Savannah Centre for Conflict Resolution, Democracy and Development to the Governor of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu in Minna, Uwais said constitutionally, elections are suppose to hold 30 days before May 29, hence any shift now would affect the handing over day
Babangida, in a statement on Wednesday by his media office, said the card reader was a novel innovation worth trying
Fayose spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka
On his recent visits to President Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Abubakar said they were private
Odah stated this on Tuesday during a workshop organized by the Centre for Labour Studies and Advocacy in collaboration with the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees
Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, made the declaration in a statement in Abuja
Igbini said INEC had ipso-facto incurred the wrath of the court, having jettisoned the judgements that ordered it to accord them full recognition
Nwabueze, at the forum, said the civil society is in support of the controversial card reader, which has been the major discourse in the polity for several weeks in build up to the general elections
The court has also reserved judgement on the appeal filed by Dr. Nuhu Zagbayi of the PDP, who was removed as the senator-elect at the bye-election by the tribunal that sat in Minna, the Niger State capital