The Imo State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) on Saturday raised the alarm that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was denying its legal team access to the certified true copy (CTC) of documents used for the governorship election in the state. In a statement by the spokesperson to the LP governorship candidate in the election, Chibuikem Diala, the …

The Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) National Commissioner in charge of Kogi, Kwara and Niger states, Prof Dani Adam, has said that the just-concluded governorship election in Kogi State was free, fair and credible. Adam spoke on Friday in Lokoja, Kogi State capital, at the presentation of Certificate of Return to the Governor-elect, Ahmed Ododo, and his deputy, Joel Oyibo, …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo winner of the governorship election conducted on Saturday. This is despite earlier announcement of rescheduled election in some areas where election result sheets were found to have been completed ahead of the commencement of voting would have to be concluded …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would continue the collation of governorship election results from the local government areas in Bayelsa State from Noon on Monday. The Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity INEC office, Yenagoa, the state capital, Mr. Wilfred Ifogah announced this to party agents, election observers and journalists at the state’s collation centre on …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has slated next Saturday for the conduct of fresh elections in polling units where the exercise was earlier suspended in Kogi State. In a statement on Sunday night in Abuja, National Commissioner and member of INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Kudu Haruna said: “Further to our statement yesterday, we have received an …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended election in some parts of Kogi State. Off-cycle governorship elections were conducted in two other states – Bayelsa and Imo. Midway into commencement of the exercise, a civil society group, Yiaga Africa raised an alarm over some doctored result sheets. INEC responded by saying that it was investigating the issue. In a …

Polls opened early in many centres in the three states of Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi where governors are being elected. The off-season governorship elections have two incumbents – Senator Duoye Diri (Bayelsa) and Senator Hope Uzodimma (Imo) – seeking re-election, while Kogi State will be having a new governor after 48-year-old Alhaji Yahaya Bello completes his second tenure on 27th …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday urged an Abuja Federal High Court to reject an ex-parte motion filed by the Alhaji Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) to replace the party’s governorship candidate in Imo State. In its affidavit to show cause pursuant to the court order, INEC told Justice Inyang Ekwo that the plaintiffs’ suit …

Ahead of Saturday’s governorship poll, security has been beefed up around the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Kogi State. This is just as the commission distributed sensitive materials to local governments. It was observed on Friday the heavy presence of military, police, and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel seen around the state’s capital as citizens went …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday distributed electoral materials to all 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the Imo State ahead of the governorship election holding on Saturday. At the Central Bank of Nigeria’s branch in Owerri, the state capital, the electoral body distributed the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines, ballot papers and result sheets for the election …