NAN recalls that the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, had in a broadcast on November 22, 2013, said that the commission would conduct a supplementary election on November 30 in the local governments where there were lapses
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Jega said: “I don’t know under what basis Mallam Nasir el-Rufai went to Anambra State and the commission has no hand in it
Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Friday evening, INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, said the Commission has reviewed the reasons being adduced by those calling for fresh election, saying total cancellation does not arise
The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Friday announced the date
PDP’s Agwuariavwodo had in a landslide victory defeated the candidates of the two rival parties – DPP’s Efe Dafinone and APC’s O’tega Emerhor in the election, conducted on October 12 to fill the vacant seat created by the death of Pius Ewherido on June 30
The recent altercation in Anambra State is another typical instance. I was not in Anambra State to witness the recent gubernatorial polls in the state, but the scoops from friends, updates on the media and numerous comments on social network (especially twitter) are enough to convey the wrong message
In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party reminded INEC that it did not wait for a court order to cancel the National Assembly election in 2011, when it was obvious that many voters across the country could not vote due to the late arrival or non-delivery of voting materials
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, in a television interview on Sunday, blamed the incident on the INEC official in charge of the area, whom, he said “messed up” the commission’s arrangement for the area
It demanded the immediate removal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukogu, whom it described as conniving and incompetent
Rising from a meeting of what it called the founding fathers and elders at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, Abuja, the group accused the National Chairman of the PDM, Bashir Ibrahim Yusuf, of secretly registering the movement as a political party without the knowledge and approval of the founding fathers
According to Samuel Madaki, its Resident Electoral Commissioner in Bauchi State, special attention shall be paid to the voters registration and constituency delimitation
Anambra guber: APC engages Keyamo to write INEC over Obiano’s double registration saga
It declared that the restriction had become necessary for a successful and peaceful conduct of the gubernatorial election in the state scheduled for Saturday
Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday
The Katsina Ten consist of two Senators (Abdu Umar Yandoma and Ahmed Sani Stores) and eight members of the House of Representatives (Mohammed Tukur Abba Sada, Abdu Umar Dankama, Aminu Ashiru Mani, Tasiu Dogara, Dr Umar Adam Katsayal, Musa Salisu Kafin Soli, Muntari Dandutse and Murtala Isa Kankara)
“Prosecuting Obiano will also show that INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega was not just bluffing when he recently called for the establishment of an electoral offences tribunal before the 2015 general elections to help restore sanity to the country’s electoral process and deter people from committing electoral offences
Olurode told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday that training of the NYSC members had commenced
He said that in the lead-up to the governorship polls in Anambra State, the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, would be in the state next week to address the stakeholders
In a motion filed before a High Court in Enugu, the party sought the suspension of the November 2 council poll in the state following the disqualification of some its candidates from the elections
“It is the prerequisite of INEC to register us within 30 days but there is an electoral law that says if within 30 days the commission fails to write to us, such a party should deem itself registered