Tag: Independent National Electoral Commission

The commission had last week postponed scheduled bye-elections in Plateau, Bayelsa and Imo state.

The affected districts in Bayelsa, according to a statement from INEC on Thursday, are Bayelsa Central and Bayelsa West.

Mr Buhari and Mr Diri met behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday.

The APC governorship candidate, David Lyon, who won the election, was sacked by the Supreme Court.

A five-member panel of the apex court had on February 13, nullified the election of Mr Lyon on the grounds ...

Mr Degi-Eremienyo is accused of presenting false information to INEC in aid of his qualification for the November 16 governorship ...

Oshiomhole says nobody should be sworn in as the new governor of Bayelsa State on Friday.

INEC will hold bye-elections in four constituencies on February 14

Mr Uzodinma received the certificate in Abuja barely 24 hours after a Supreme Court judgement nullified the election of Emeka ...

The Supreme Court, in its judgment on Tuesday, said results in 388 polling units were unlawfully excluded during the collation ...

The Supreme Court declared Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the winner of the March 9 governorship ...

A source said the kidnappers have established contact with the family and are demanding N7 million as ransom.

The SDP candidate in the November 16 governorship election in Kogi, Natasha Akpoti, challenged the governor’s eligibility to run in ...

The commission says it lived up to its constitutional mandate in the conduct of the November 16 governorship poll.

INEC said 30 court-ordered rerun polls followed the 2019 general elections.

Plateau governor hails judgment as a validation of the will of the people.

The government says voters without their permanent voter's cards can present alternative means of identification.

The senators include a woman beater and another prosecuted for masterminding a fraudulent and fatal recruitment exercise.

INEC on Monday declared Mr Bello winner of the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State.

INEC on Monday declared Mr Bello as the winner of the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State.

Widespread violence and electoral fraud, as reported by the press and independent observers marred the exercise in both states.

Elections were supposed to be cancelled in the affected polling units in keeping with the guidelines of INEC, but the ...

The centre says "there was an urgent need for the president to show leadership in order to restore the sanctity ...

The candidates condemned the call for the cancellation of the election by civil society groups.

Of the seven local government areas in the senatorial district, five have been announced.