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) – …

The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has contested the claim by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that the party and New Nigeria People’s Party were yet to upload a single nomination for governorship and state assembly candidates to its portal. INEC’s Commissioner for Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye had also advised the …

Voters in Ekiti State are turning out to elect the governor who will step in on 16th October as the tenure of Dr Kayode Fayemi ends. In all, 988,923 registered voters across 16 Local Government Areas are expected to file out to determine the fate of 16 candidates on the ballot. But 749,065 permanent voter cards had been collected by …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it had registered 133,935 additional eligible voters in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Lagos State as at April 18. INEC’s Public Affairs Officer in the state, Mrs Adenike Oriowo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the figure covered the first week of the fourth quarter of the exercise. …