The Chicago State University ( CSU) documents released on Monday on President Bola Tinubu’s academic records have proven that the certificate Tinubu submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was fake. Phrank Shaibu , Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communications, who stated this in a statement on Tuesday, also stated that “today’s deposition…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday expressed worries over the insecurity in Imo State in the South-East and Kogi State in North-Central regions of Nigeria ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in the states. The National Commissioner of the electoral body, Mallam Mohammed Kudu Haruna, while expressing the commission’s concerns over the security…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the Kogi State November 11 governorship results will be transmitted electronically directly from polling units to its server. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kogi, Prof Gabriel Longpet, disclosed this at a two-day media roundtable Engagement on the Kogi election Organized by the Independent Press Center,…
The immediate past Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Festus Okoye, is still listed on the website of the electoral body as National Commissioner four weeks after his five-year tenure expired, checks by SaharaReporters revealed. Okoye was sworn in by former President Muhammadu Buhari as National Commissioner representing South-East…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it was not informed about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s alleged drug case in the United States before the just concluded 2023 general elections. Truetells Nigeria reports that two decades ago, a United States District Court passed a judgement on Tinubu and ordered him to forfeit $460,000…
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has denied the allegation of deducting 2.5 million votes from the scores obtained by the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi. INEC made the denial in its final address to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in the case by Obi and his party challenging the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has filed a six-count charge against its suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa-Ari. In a statement released, INEC said it took the action after reviewing the case file from the police which established a prima facie case against Yunusa-Ari. The Police had…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has filed a six-count charge against Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa state. INEC filed the lawsuit in Yola, Adamawa state’s capital, after reviewing the case file from the police which established a prima facie case against Yunusa-Ari. INEC said in a statement released…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it would be working with the Nigerian Police to prosecute 215 persons who committed different offences during the 2023 general elections. This was disclosed by INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu during a meeting with states Resident Electoral Commissioners RECs on Tuesday, July 4. The meeting…
Festus Okoye, spokesperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to explain what caused the glitch that stopped the upload of presidential election result on IREV portal. During an interview on Channels Television, he also questioned why opposition parties are relying on results posted on IREV and not on their agents. Okoye…
