Resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) will resume in the first quarter of 2021, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said. The commission’s Acting Chairman, AVM Ahmed Mu’azu (retd.), announced this yesterday during the virtual meeting with leadership of political parties at INEC national headquarters in Abuja. Praising the parties for their role […]
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Pending the determination of his nomination for reappointment as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu on Monday named an Acting Chairman for the Commission. He handed over to AVM Ahmed Mu’azu (rtd), as Acting Chairman, pending his clearance by the Senate. Yakubu’s five-year tenure ended Monday. He was appointed […]
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Northern leaders favour one term presidency for South Associates of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the south are tinkering with the idea of pushing his candidacy in the 2023 presidential race. Their calculation is that the presidency can return to the North in 2027 since Jonathan, if he wins in 2023, will be ineligible […]
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There are indications that a similar political gambit that upstaged Nigeria’s First and Second Republics in 1966 and 1983, as well as, aborted the Third Republic in 1993, is playing out also in the current Fourth Republic. It seems one of the national leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is in the […]
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Re-elected Governor. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State (left); his wife Betty; Deputy Governor-Elect, Lucky Aiyedatiwa and his wife, Oluwaseun displaying their Certificates-of-Return, presented to them by the State’s Independent National Electoral Commission Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ambassador Rufus Akeju in Akure…yesterday. Photo: Oluwaseun Akingboye Lessons from Mimiko’s missed second chance When the Independent National Electoral Commission […]
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APC, PDP, ZLP hail exercise An election monitoring group, YIAGA Africa, has faulted Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s use of members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, to distribute sensitive materials. It said the partisan background of some members of the union was worrisome. The body said politicians could use the partisan […]
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INEC Chairman By Banji Ayoola The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has refuted the allegation that it appointed the Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, a kinsman of the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate and Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, as the returning officer for the Saturday Governorship Election in […]
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Voting materials move to registration centres INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said its commitment to free, fair and credible governorship elections in Ondo State was unwavering, assuring that successes in the exercise would surpass that of Edo State. Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Oluwatoyin Akeju, said that all arrangements […]
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The three leading candidates Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Agboola Ajayi, Eyitayo Jegede with INEC boss Mahmood Yakubu Ahead of Saturday governorship election in Ondo State, the Transition Monitoring Group which is a coalition of over 400 civil society organisations, has condemned the ‘invasion’ of the state by some governors. The Chairman, Transition Monitoring Group, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, […]
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Voter distribution Akoko S/West 87,351 Ese-Odo 66,481 Akoko N/East 66,290 Idanre 64,438 Ose 63,568 Akure North 60,744 Akoko N/West 58,505 Irele 57,651 Ifedore 54,640 Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo 54,391 Ondo East 40,496 Akoko S/East 32,763 At least 1,478,460 voters will decide Saturday’s governorship election in 203 electoral wards across 18 local government councils in Ondo State. The State […]
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