A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who visited some polling units in Jos North and Jos South local government areas reports that the people have exhibited minimum interest in the polls.
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Retired Justice Ayotunde Phillips, the Chairman of LASIEC, said this while briefing newsmen on Saturday after touring some polling units in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area and Yaba Local Council Development Area. (LCDA).
One of the operators, Saheed Eniola, told NAN that he decided to work in order to provide food for his family, saying that the 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. restriction was not necessary.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission had made it a mandatory condition for voters seeking to exercise their rights to vote.
Its Publicity Secretary, Dele Oladeji, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, on Sunday that the party chose to contest only in its areas of strength rather than dissipate energy across the state.
The Chairman of the state Independent National Electoral Commission, Mamman Eri, said this in Lokoja on Sunday while announcing the results of the local government elections conducted on Saturday.
Plateau Government has earmarked N1 billion for the conduct of elections in four Local Government Areas of the state in its 2020 budget.
Chief Remember Ogbe, Acting Chairman of BYSIEC, said this on Tuesday, at a stakeholders meeting with representatives of political parties in Yenagoa, Bayelsa capital.
The Plateau chapter of the PDP has accused the state government of “creating unnecessary tension by insisting on announcing results of local government elections while collation was ongoing”.
A statement by Richard Tokma, Acting Secretary to the State Government, said that the elections would hold in 13 of the 17 local governments.
The seven-member electoral body has Henry Omaku as its Chairman.
The News Agency of Nigeria Correspondent, who visited some polling units in Oredo and Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Areas, said that there were no materials in the units visited.
The popular Unit 002 in Ajiya Ward of Yola North Local Government Area, where former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur; and other prominent politicians resident in Yola, the State capital, vote, was virtually empty.
Both Abubakar and Tukur did not show up to cast their votes
He said: “Due to the high turnout of aspirants and based on our party policy to ensure justice and fairness to all, the committee, after due consultation, decided to extend the sales of nomination forms.”
Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC) has disqualified four, out of the 15 registered political parties bidding to contest the forth coming council polls in the state.
The party’s Secretary, Prince Yemi Afolayan, announced this in a letter dated May 8, 2014 and addressed to Deji Gbadeyan, its counsel, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital
“The PDP has already directed its chairmanship and councillorship candidates to write reports on how and why they won or lost; the reports will help the party to determine who did what,” the party’s Chairman, Dr. Haruna Dabin, said in Jos
Olakpe told the News Agency of Nigeria in an interview that politicians, as stakeholders, should desist from political vices capable of disrupting the elections
Announcing the results on Sunday in Enugu, Dr. Boniface Eneh, the Chairman of the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission, said all the chairmanship candidates were returned unopposed