Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the dismissal of the Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, and officials of the commission at all levels as part of a reform of the electoral process in Nigeria. Mr Obasanjo made the call in a paper he presented at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum, Yale University, in the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has reinstated Olorunfemi Festus as the Labour Party’s candidate for the 2024 Ondo State governorship election, following a ruling by the Court of Appeal. INEC revealed this in a statement released on its official X account on Friday. The decision came after the Court of Appeal in Abuja struck down…
President Bola Tinubu has nominated a lawyer, Saseyi Ibiyemi, as a resident electoral commissioner representing Ondo State pending her confirmation by the Senate. Tinubu also nominated Abdulrazak Tukur as a National Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission, representing the North West. The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, conveyed…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, clarified its stance on the ongoing crisis in the Rivers State House of Assembly, attributing its silence to conflicting court judgments on the matter. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting with media executives at INEC headquarters in Abuja, INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu addressed calls for the commission…
Scores of demonstrators from Ondo stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on Tuesday, demanding the immediate redeployment of the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, from the state. Waving banners and placards with messages such as “Mahmood: Redeploy Babalola Now” and “We Don’t Want a Repeat of Edo Fiasco,”…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it reserves the power to review results declared under duress. The commission said this in a statement on Sunday morning. Following the upload of results on its portal, different political parties have been laying claim to victory. But in the statement, Mohammed Haruna, National Commissioner & Member,…
It was a dramatic scene at about 4:10 am when Governor Godwin Obaseki was forced out of the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Benin by the DIG Frank Mba. Obaseki had entered the promises unannounced at around 2 am allegedly to protest some anomalies in the collation of results of some local…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has uploaded results from 4,173 of 4,519 polling units in the Edo State governorship election. This translates to 92.34 per cent of the results from the election already in the INEC Result Viewing, IREV, portal. – PDP Urges Supporters To ‘Follow The Results’ Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) developed the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) to provide real-time access to election results directly from polling units. The platform aims to enhance transparency in the electoral process and reduce the chances of vote tampering and manipulation. IReV allows voters, observers, and interested parties to monitor ongoing elections and…
Eighteen months after the 2023 presidential election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has offered clarification on the timing of the result declaration made in the early hours of March 1, 2023. President Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner with 8,794,726 votes, defeating Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…