Even the most cynical critics of the process and conduct of the 2023 elections delivered by Prof. Mahmud Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would grudgingly admit that some aspects of the exercise were novel and promised some level of quantifiable improvement. Of course, the remarkable introduction of BVAS (Bimodal Voter Accreditation System), and INEC’s insistence to abide strictly by …

No fewer than nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria have been appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to defend the results of the 25th February presidential election. The team is to be led by former Nigerian Bar Association President, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN). Other members of the team are Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN), Miannaya Essien (SAN), and Abdullahi …

Abductors of six Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials, who participated in the governorship and state assembly elections in Kogi State, have demanded ₦50 million for their release. Addressing a press conference on Monday on behalf of the families of the kidnapped victims in Lokoja, an Assistant Presiding Officer II in the 18th March Kogi State House of Assembly election, …

The Ogun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “provide maximum security for its staff and the election materials in its possession, especially all the ballot papers pertaining to the just concluded general elections” in the state. In a statement on Sunday in Abeokuta, the state capital, APC state …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it would issue certificates of return to politicians elected as governors, deputy governors, and state House of Assembly members between Wednesday and Friday. INEC National Commissioner, who is also Chairman of the Commission’s Information and Voter Education Committee, Barrister Festus Okoye said that the decision came from a meeting the commission …

The 2023 elections in Nigeria have triggered a strange metamorphosis that has given rise to the emergence of many innocent traitors. Hiding behind their tiny fingers, these mutants have orchestrated heinous social and political wrongs, yet convinced that their opinionated academic robes were enough transfigurative garbs that could turn self-righteousness into enduring common good. The truth is this, we are …

For Nigerians, these are not the easiest of times. Happy faces are rare, because the mood is indignant. Adults – male and female – have stripped naked inside banking halls, demanding their cash. Fights break out routinely on queues before ATMs that dispense only miserly amounts. Small businesses have quietly folded up, at least in the meantime, because of low …

If anyone had prophesied the retention of Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in that office to which he was appointed late 2015 by Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, beyond 2019, he would have been pilloried as a false prophet. Yakubu, a professor of political history and international relations, was on the staff of the Nigerian Defence …

Ayo Ademiluyi, one of the well-known lawyers leading the charge for justice for the EndSARS protesters in Lagos, filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in federal court in Lagos yesterday for failing to upload his name as the winner of the February 25 Eti-Osa Federal Constituency election and the candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Addressing …

The ongoing reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used during the presidential and National Assembly elections on 25 February will end on Monday. The Independent National Electoral Commission had postponed the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on 11 March to 18 March in order to be able to reconfigure the BVAS. Consequently, …