Tag Archives: INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has identified 23 personnel who carried out fake voter registrations.   INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu who spoke at the third quarterly meeting with political parties on Wednesday October 26, said after a rigorous clean-up of the data using the automated biometric identification system (ABIS), 2,780,756 (22.6%) of …

Former Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa Ibom State, Mike Igini, has stated that the 2023 elections in Nigeria will be very hard for politicians who hope to engage in rigging.   According to Igini,  the new Electoral Act has enabled INEC to adopt …

The All Progressives Congress has finally complied with the court order which upheld the primary election which produced Bashir Sheriff Machina as the party’s Yobe North senatorial district candidate.    The ruling party which has written the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognize Machina as Yobe North senatorial district candidate, said this was …

The grand plan: According to them, the unnamed perpetrators have perfected plans to create crisis of confidence based on trumped up charges that would lead to the ouster of the INEC chairman and other top officials of the commission who have strongly resisted the request to shun Bimodal Voter Accreditation …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has listed insecurity, thuggery and social media fake news as major threats to next year’s general elections.  The Commission’s Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu, made the disclosure at an event organized by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there are 95 million registered voters for 2023 election. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who spoke at an event organised by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) at the NED Headquarters, Washington DC, United States of …

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yakubu Mahmood has revealed that 2.7 million double registrations were weeded out of the last Continuous Voters Registration exercise conducted by the commission.   Speaking on Tuesday October 11, at a National Endowment for Democracy event in Washington DC in the United States, Yakubu …

19 Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been confirmed by the senate.   Their nomination was confirmed on Wednesday October 5, following consideration of reports of the Senate Committees on Electoral Matters.   The committee’s chairman, Kabiru Gaya (APC, Kano), in his report, said the nominees were quizzed on …

A Federal High Court sitting in Benin has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognize and publish the names of candidates produced by the Governor Godwin Obaseki faction of the Edo Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as standard-bearers of the party in the forthcoming 2023 elections. In a judgement …

Political parties have been warned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to desist from any form of abusive language or hate speech ahead of the commencement of the 2023 general elections campaign. The electoral body called on the political parties to study the Constitution, the Electoral Act, the Police …