Category: Election

Gender Action Group in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has asked the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Akali; the Director-General of Department for State Security Service, Yusuf Magaji Bichi; the Nigeria Peace Committee, among others, to be aware of alleged plot by officials of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to manipulate the governorship elections on Saturday in […]

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, during the collation of the presidential election results; Photo: Olukayode Jaiyeola The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday began the distribution of sensitive materials for Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections. Also on Wednesday, political parties warned the electoral body against a repeat of the Bimodal […]

Fourteen females are set to contest the Gubernatorial/Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 28 out of the 36 States across the country on Saturday. Below are the female gubernatorial candidates on Saturday: * Aishatu Dahiru Aishatu Dahiru, a graduate of Electrical Engineering from University of Southampton, United Kingdom, is running under […]

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (left) at a meeting with the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Security in Abuja… yesterday. Credit: Lucy Ladidi Ateko • Igini: BVAS didn’t fail, it put an end to exaggerated election results • 2023 elections fascinating, positive, says outgoing British envoy Ahead of Saturday’s governorship and state […]

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections, Peter Obi, has said that he is challenging the process leading to the declaration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of the election and not the declaration itself. Obi said this during […]

The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, on Sunday, reiterated that its supporters won’t back down on their planned nationwide demonstration unless the Independent National Electoral Commission grants LP’s lawyers access to materials from the contentious February 25 presidential election. Controversies had trailed the outcome of the presidential election where presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, […]

The ongoing reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines used during the presidential and National Assembly elections on 25 February will end today Monday, it has been learnt. The Independent National Electoral Commission had postponed the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 to March 18 in order […]

The introduction of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System machines into Nigeria’s electoral process has to a large extent reduced rigging and produced results, which shocked legacy parties, ADEBAYO FOLORUNSHO-FRANCIS writes When the idea of introducing the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System into the electoral process was first mooted by the National Chairman of the Independent National […]

An Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) official uses a Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to check the details of a voter at a polling station in Maiduguri on February 25, 2023, during Nigeria’s presidential and general election. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP) • Nigeria Needs ‘Data-chaos Engineering’ Model —- Uwaje • Computer Experts Seek […]

A voter casts her ballot while others queue at a polling station in Agege, Lagos on February 25, 2023, during Nigeria’s presidential and general election. (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi / AFP) • Voter Suppression, Not Low Voter Turnout Occurred—Rafsanjani, Aigbe • Nigerians Ventilated Frustration By Not Coming Out, Says Olurode • Voter Register Might Be […]