INEC had extended by two days the Continuous Voter Registration in Taraba, Gombe, Zamfara, Kebbi, Benue, Kogi, Abia, Enugu, Akwa-Ibom and Bayelsa States
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The Council of Traditional Rulers also agreed to invite both the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Alhaji Halilu Pai, on the yet-to-be collected voter cards and security operatives in the state to intimate the Council on the plans to curb political violence
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lokoja that the thugs snatched the cards during the distribution of the item to registered voters in the state
He said that majority of the polling units in Gusau, Gumi and Zurmi had problem of multiple registration
Ada attributed the problem to double registration by those affected, noting that because of this, permanent voter cards distribution would not take place in 205 out of the 2,980 polling units
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that scores of voters turned out in the various polling units to collect their cards in Gombe metropolis
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who monitored the exercise in parts of the metropolis, reports that people came out as early as 8:30am to the polling units to collect their cards
The News Agency of Nigeria correspondents, who visited some polling units in Uyo metropolis, reported that officials of INEC were not at the venue of the distribution as at 11am
The exercise is expected to be carried out in three phases to cover all the States of the Federation
Some officials of the affected parties told the News Agency of Nigeria in separate interviews in Lagos that a lack of finance was, however, hampering their plans
The bulletin quoted Prof. Attahiru Jega, the INEC Chairman, as expressing the optimism when Dr. Serah Sewall, the US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights, led a delegation to the commission
The commission’s Deputy-Director, Gender Division, Blessing Obidiegwu, gave the directive in Ado-Ekiti at a one-day political dialogue organised by a consortium of women bodies in conjunction with the United Nations Development Programme and INEC
AFCO said in a statement issued by its Director General, Chief Dipo Anisulowo, that it was the tradition of the APC to accuse others of what they are planning to perpetrate
Austin Okojie, the state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, gave the directive at a stakeholders’ meeting on Saturday in Jalingo
The National Chairman of the party, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja
They are Prof. Modupe Adelabu, who is the running mate to the incumbent Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; Bolanle Bruce, who stands on the platform of Labour Party, with Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele as governorship aspirant; Taiwo Phebe of the Action Alliance; and Adegoro Adolu of the National Conscience Party
This was contained in a statement signed by Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, the Commission’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said Wednesday that it has not suspended the plan for constituency delineation, contrary to…
The plaintiffs, Messers Olabode Simeon, Oginni Olaposi and Arabambi Abayomi, had filed the suit on behalf of the party’s State Executive Committee seeking some reliefs
This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a two-day INEC/States Independent Electoral Commission’s Experience Sharing Conference on Best Practices in Election Management