EU mission releases report on 2023 general elections

June 27, 2023 Blossom 0

The Independent National Electoral Commission has received the final report from the European Union Election Observation Mission about this year’s general elections. INEC disclosed this on its Twitter handle on Monday. The EU Mission was received by the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, and the National Commissioners […]

Revealed! “All efforts made to upload presidential poll results to BVAS failed” — INEC staff testifies in court

June 9, 2023 Blossom 0

The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, or BVAS, machines were used by five INEC ad-hoc staff members who took part in the administration of the contested presidential election. They testified before the court that on the day of the election, all of their attempts to upload polling unit results to INEC’s I-Rev portal failed. Five INEC’s ad-hoc staff members were subpoenaed to appear before the court, however, only two of them were able to testify on Thursday, with […]

INEC reveals over 50 candidates for Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi governorship elections

June 7, 2023 Blossom 0

In a statement issued by INEC stated that all 18 political parties fielded candidates for the Kogi election, while 17 and 16 parties, respectively, fielded candidates for the gubernatorial elections in Imo and Bayelsa. A further breakdown of the list by INEC also revealed that two political parties fielded female candidates for Bayelsa poll, while only one party […]

Rivers poll: Why I’m withdrawing petition against INEC — Magnus Abe

May 1, 2023 Blossom 0

Magnus Abe, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) candidate for governor in Rivers State, has announced that he is withdrawing his complaint against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which had challenged the results of the governorship election on March 18 that had resulted in Siminaliayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) being declared the winner. Abe made this known while addressing party faithful at the SDP state head office in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Sunday. He said […]