INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the final candidate list for Nigeria’s February 3, 2024 by-election. INEC National Commissioner Sam Olumekun stated on Wednesday that the by-elections are essential due to the death or resignation of members of the National and State Houses of Assembly. “These elections will be held on Saturday 3rd February 2024 across nine States of the Federation covering two Senatorial Districts (Ebonyi South and […]

A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega has said that the 2023 general elections were credible in many aspects. […]

The Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) governorship candidate in Kogi State, Muritala Ajaka, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the conduct of the […]

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Usman Ahmed Ododo, is presently in early lead in results of 18 local government areas declared so […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman has been urgently urged to step in following yesterday’s governorship election by the Bayelsa Civil Society Forum, a collective voice representing a number of civil society organizations in the state. Unsettling rumors of purported anomalies and the submission of forged results from certain polling locations in the local government areas of Nembe, Brass, and Southern Ijaw have surfaced. The Bayelsa Civil Society Forum, in a statement issued in Yenagoa and signed by Comrade Mike Koripamo condemns in the strongest terms any […]

Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has been urged by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) “to promptly establish a joint, credible, transparent, effective, and broad-based investigation into allegations of electoral bribery and violence in the off-cycle governorship elections in Kogi, Imo, and Bayelsa states.” SERAP urged him to “identify, arrest, name and shame suspected perpetrators and their sponsors of these grave human rights crimes, and ensure their effective […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Saturday, responded to a report of alleged pre-filled result sheets from a civil society organisation, Yiaga Africa, in the governorship election […]