The faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)-led by Edozie Njoku, has filed committal charges against the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and APGA chairman, Victor Oye for violating a valid order of court. Truetells Nigeria reports that the committal charges were filed before a High Court of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has rejected the majority of documents presented before the Presidential Election Petition Court by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The rejection followed the admissibility of the material in accordance with the court-ordered pre-hearing reports binding on all parties in the case. Atiku Abubakar and the…
Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, has called on the Federal government to either provide the resources to continue to mandate participation in the National Youth Service Corps scheme or otherwise make it voluntary. Jega made the call during his address at the Opening Ceremony of the 50th Anniversary…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the personal particulars of candidates and their running mates, nominated by 17 political parties for the gubernatorial candidates of the political parties ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Imo State. This was contained in a statement issued by INEC on Friday evening, adding that the…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of being biased in the 2023 election. Obi made the claim in response to a preliminary objection the commission filed in support of the President-elect and candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr….
A dramatic twist to the governorship election in Adamawa state has emerged as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Aishatu Dahiru Binani has been declared the winner of the poll before the completion of the collation of results. The Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Hudu Yunusa, announced Binani…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that winning 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja is not a condition for the declaration of a candidate as the winner in the presidential election. INEC made the clarification in a statement filed by its lawyers before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC)…
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the presidential election petition tribunal to strike out the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President-elect. Truetells Nigeria reports that in its petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023, Livy Ozoukwu, lead counsel to Labour Party and…
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) delayed the uploading of results to its portal due to suspected cyber-attacks during the presidential poll. According to the Voice of Nigeria, the minister disclosed this while speaking with some international media organisations in Washington DC on Monday….
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appointed no fewer than nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to defend the results of the February 25 presidential election. According to City Lawyer, the team will be led by former Nigerian Bar Association President, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN). Other members of the team are Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN),…
