The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that it would publish the final list of candidates for Presidential, Senate and House of Representatives seats in the 2023 general elections on 20 September. That is in keeping with the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the elections, which INEC released last February. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said on Thursday …

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  have sharply disagreed on the proposed establishment of Electoral Offences Commission (EOC). To INEC, EOC would not only help to take the campaign against electoral malpractices to “highly placed sponsors” but relieve it of the extra burden of prosecuting all electoral offenders. But the EFCC argued that the …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dismissed media reports that it has discarded the electronic transmission of election results. An earlier report had quoted INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Barrister Festus Okoye as saying that the collation of results of the 2023 general elections would be done manually despite the adoption of …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the collation of results of the 2023 general elections will be done manually despite the adoption of electronic transmission of results. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Barrister Festus Okoye stressed that the commission would transmit results from polling units to its result-viewing portal (IReV), as …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said empathically that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no senatorial candidate for Yobe North and Akwa Ibom North West districts for the 2023 elections. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Barrister Festus Okoye said this on Sunday in an interview on Channels Television said the commission decided to …

The supposedly Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ended the registration of (new) voters despite the fact that there were hundreds and thousands of would-be or intending voters trooping into and milling around voter registration centres or points all over the country. We saw pictures of agitated Nigerians struggling to get registered. Many slept at the registration centres. Others got …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reiterated that the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), which ended on Sunday, will be the last before the 2023 general elections scheduled to hold in February and March. The federal elections (presidential and National Assembly) will hold on 23 February, while those for the states (governorship and House of Assembly) take place 11 March. …

A non-governmental organisation, the Electoral Forum has canvassed for a review of the Electoral Act 2022 to provide for the emergence of quality delegates and tackle vote transaction in the selection of candidates of political parties. Rising from its sixth technical session last Wednesday, the group, which is an initiative of the Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development, …

The Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) will now end on 31 July, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced. The commission’s spokesperson, Barrister Festus Okoye said on Friday in a statement that the decision was in compliance with the court ruling affirming that “INEC is at liberty to appoint a date of its choice to suspend the CVR, provided it …

Fifteen political parties go to the poll in Osun State today to seek the votes of about 1.9 million eligible voters in deciding who the Governor would be when the first term of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola ends on 27 November. But realistically, only two political parties – the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – …