Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, INEC Chairman disclosed this, in Abuja, on Monday.
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The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, while addressing the officers at the post-election review meeting in Abuja, said the Commission would like to hear their experiences on the field.
Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, Chairman of INEC, said this while briefing newsmen on Friday in Abuja on the general election.
The commission disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja by Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu.
Yakubu gave the warning on Monday in Akure during a stakeholders’ meeting with political party officials, traditional rulers, election observers and other officials.
The Peoples Democratic Party has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that Saturday supplementary elections scheduled to hold in five states are concluded in a transparent manner.
Governor Seriake Dickson has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to convene an emergency National Council of State meeting to discuss issues concerning Saturday’s postponement of the general elections.
The All Progressive Congress has faulted the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission on closure of election campaigns by political parties, following the postponement of the general elections.
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has expressed disappointment and shock over the postponement of the general elections by one week.
A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Ebenezer Babatope on Saturday, described the rescheduling of the general elections as unfortunate.
Former Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, on Saturday expressed disappointment over the postponement of the general elections, but declared that INEC was never prepared for the exercise in the first place.
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will continue its aggressive campaign against vote buying and inducement of voters in the country.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday declared that it would not be distracted by the 2019 elections in its struggle to revitalise public varsities.
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, has distanced the electoral body from buying of votes from the electorate, revealing that politicians insert money in sandwich on election day to buy votes.
The President of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, said it was imperative for Electoral Commissions in the ECOWAS region to rethink the way elections were funded.
Justice Stephen Pam of the Taraba division of the Federal High Court but sitting in Abuja on the directives of the Chief Judge of the court gave the order on July 5.
INEC chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu, gave the assurance at a one-day national consultation with key stakeholders on importance of women in politics organised by Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre in Benin.
Justice Chukwu had given an order of perpetual injunction restraining the first defendant (PDP), its agents, servants, privies, assign, officials whatsoever name they may be called from forwarding or submitting to the second defendant (INEC) any delegate list or nominated candidate that may emerge from the congress or primaries conducted by the purported caretaker committee set up by the PDP, Anambra State chapter, except those that emanate from the plaintiffs’ (Oguebego, others) congress