Security has been beefed up at polling units as people in Adamawa State trickle out to vote in Thursday’s supplementary governorship election.
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Sorting and counting of votes for Saturday’s House of Assembly poll has commenced across polling units in Osun State, the News Agency of Nigeria is reporting.
The Peoples Democratic Party has demanded in line with what it termed its commitment to a transparent, free and fair election, an immediate halt to the ongoing collation of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission until data from the smart card reader accreditation at the polling units are made available to all the parties in the election.
The Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday won all in the 15 voting points in the Presidential and National Assembly elections at Mpape Central polling units marked 006 and 007 situated at Mpape Primary School, Abuja.
Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory thronged in their numbers to their polling units to cast their votes in the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre has urged Independent National Electoral Commission to explore possibilities of installing Closed-Circuit Television Cameras in polling units and collation centres during the forthcoming election.
The Peoples Democratic Party in Plateau has alleged massive irregularities in the ongoing Local Government Area poll in the state.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it will re-administer its polling units to address the issue of vote buying, a challenge plaguing the country’s electoral system.
He said: “Sen. Saraki will like to state clearly that as legislators, the same way we clamour for politicians not to interfere with the Nigerian Police Force as an independent body, we should not also interfere with INEC
In recent times, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has come under unjustified criticism from certain interests over its decision to sanitise the Polling Units (PUs) structure ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Have you heard the scream? It must have got to you since the yell which emanates from the south-east reverberates even in the remotest part of Kano State.