Some of the inscriptions read: No to election postponement, INEC Commissioners: Nigerians are watching, We have confidence on Jega to give us elections onFebruary 14
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Jega made the remark on Saturday in Abuja when he and other officials of the commission met with representatives of the REGISTERED political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja
Pai made the call at a one-day workshop organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel of Kogi State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in collaboration with INEC in Lokoja
The group, which comprises of former Anambra State Governor, Chukwuemeka Ezeife; a chieftain of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Femi Okunrounmu; and former Minister of Information, Walter Ofonagoro, among others and led by Ijaw leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, again called for the sack and arrest of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega
The court is angry that INEC ignored its judgment of October 31, 2014 ordering the commission to restore the TWO state constituencies (Ughelli South I and Isoko North II), which were suppressed by the commission in 1998, forthwith
Speaking at a stakeholders’ forum in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Sam Olumekun, said a total of 2,653 card readers had been deployed in the state and made ready 9,244 poll officials for the entire 2,311 voting points in the state
The protesters, in specific term, demanded for the postponement of the February 14presidential and National Assembly elections as well as the February 28Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections
In a statement by Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, INEC said one of its National Commissioners, Amina Zachary, was misquoted on the issue by Reuters
“Let’s see how the PVC (Permanent Voter Cards) distribution goes by February 8, then maybe,” Amina Zachary, a commissioner for INEC said on the sidelines of a news conference, when asked whether or not the date could be changed
Igini disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at Auchi, headquarters of the Etsako-West Local Government Area of the state
The directive was contained in a statement issued by Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Force Public Relations Officer, in Abuja on Tuesday
The parties include the United Democratic Party, Citizen Peoples Party, Peoples Party of Nigeria, Action Alliance, Peoples Democratic Congress, Labour Party, Unity Party of Nigeria, Alliance for Democracy, Democratic Peoples Party, New Nigerian Peoples Party, Peoples Party of Nigeria and the Independent Democrat
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babangida Aliyu, Israel Ayegba Ebije, said the two days holiday is to enable eligible voters collect PVCs before the new deadline of February 8 set by the Independent National Electoral Commission
The group, led by its National Coordinator, Solomon Chuks, cited hitches recorded in the distribution of the Permanent Voter Cards as reasons for its demand
This was even as the Commission revealed that as at January 31, it had recorded 42.7 million PVC distribution, which represents 65 per cent national average
The Head of Department of Voter Education/Publicity of the commission in Plateau State, Osaretin Imahiyereobo, disclosed that the training will commence simultaneously in the 274 Registration Areas of the state
Okorodudu Eyesan, the Head ofECOWAS Democracy and Good Governance, told newsmen after the mission’s closed-door MEETING with INEC management that ECOWAS would continue to partner INEC towards a peaceful election
The party said that it has observed that officials of INEC were colluding with the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State to frustrate the distribution of the PVCs in PDP strongholds as well as to non-indigenes in the state
Akin Orebiyii, the Lagos State Resident Electoral Commissioner, made the thinking known to the News Agency of Nigeria after meeting with the State Council of Obas and Chiefs in Ikeja
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Aniedi-Abasi Ikiowak, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Asaba