The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has sought the support of the media for a peaceful conduct of the upcoming Governorship election.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed dates for next year’s off-cycle governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is organising a mock accreditation exercise in 27 polling units across three states where off-circle governorship elections are scheduled for later this year.
The Peoples Democratic Party Governorship Candidate for Lagos State in the March 18 poll, Dr Abdulazeez Adediran and his Labour Party counterpart, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour filed the petitions.
The Lagos State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal fixed the date for the ruling, Rhodes-Vivour said on Saturday.
An FCT High Court sitting in Bwari has fixed Sept. 14 for definite hearing of a motion seeking an order to commit the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to prison over alleged disobedience to court order.
Babarinde gave the advice on Saturday in a congratulatory message to President Bola Tinubu on his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC).
A senior Lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), has called for unbundling of the Independent Electoral Commission to make it really independent, non-partisan and effective.
In a judgment on the petition by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP), the court held that INEC was right to have declared President Bola Tinubu the winner of the election even when he did not score 25 percent of votes in the FCT.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the redeployment of two of its Resident Electoral Commissioners.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the resumption of the collection of Permanent Voter Cards ahead of the off-cycle governorship polls in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states.
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He said this while reacting to the delay in the distribution of materials for Saturday’s local council election in the state.
Voters were kept waiting in long queues at many polling units in Benin as electoral materials failed to arrive at 8:00 a.m. as scheduled by the electoral umpires.
The organisation also frowned at being tagged as conduit for money laundering, siphoning COVID19 funds, saying such allegations are clearly handiworks of mischief makers and traducers who were hell bent to tarnish the reputation of the company before its numerous customers and that of its former Director, who is presently the Secretary to the Ogun State Government, Tokunbo Talabi.
The Chairman of the electoral commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this disclosure in Lagos State on Friday.
The League made its appreciation through a letter signed by its Chairman, Yahaya Amfani and Secretary, Ademola Kasumu, admitting that the opportunity given to it would be a part of this historic national exercise is both an honour and a privilege, adding that the local print industry recognizes that the enormous responsibility that comes with producing election materials is critical to the democratic process.
In the petition against Governor Dapo Abiodun at the election petition tribunal, marked EPT/OG/GOV/03/2023, PDP and Adebutu are challenging his victory based on alleged non-compliance with the Electoral Act.
Mahmood Yakubu, said all sensitive and non-sensitive materials used for the 2023 general election were printed in Nigeria.
The group’s call is contained in a communique issued at the end of a roundtable held in Abuja Monday.