The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Usman Ododo, has been declared winner of the just concluded November 11 governorship election in Kogi State. According to INEC, Ododo won with 446,237 votes. Murtala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party garnered 259,052, and Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party came third with 46,362 votes. This is…
The Independent National Electoral Commission will get N18bn for the conduct of the Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi governorship elections billed for November 11, 2023. This was revealed by the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning Atiku Bagudu, saying the fund will be gotten out of the N2.1 trillion 2023 supplementary budget. “Equally, N18 billion was…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of nine (9) new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for a term of five (5) years each. A statement released by presidential media aide, Ajuri Ngelali, says President Tinubu made the appointment by powers vested in him by Section 154 (1) of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has argued that Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, failed to show how he scored the majority of lawful votes during the 25 February presidential election. Mr Obi, who came third in the election, had filed his petition at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to challenge the…
Some months after the polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to pay some of its ad-hoc staff members who participated in the 2023 general elections in the Agege local government area of Lagos State, according to ABEG.NG. Some of the staff members, who expressed their displeasure to ABEG.NG on Sunday, urged the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has closed its defence in the petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) before the presidential election petition court. At the court session on Tuesday, Lawrence Bayode, an information technology practitioner, was led in evidence by Abubakar Mahmoud, INEC counsel. Before the witness was called, INEC…
Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, has said that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) technology used in the 2023 elections recorded a 98 per cent success rate. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Tuesday while addressing the Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) of all the states of the federation at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. BVAS…