The presidential election has been delayed at the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu's polling unit, Polling Units 085, Ward 3, ...
Tinubu, who voted at the polling unit 047 during the 2019 general election, is expected to vote at unit 085 of the ward. He said, “We are waiting for the electoral officials, we have done our part and we don’t know why they are delaying. I am waiting to receive our candidate before I go to the polling unit.”
The Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima on Saturday arrived his Shettimari polling unit 001 in Lawan Bukar ...
Shettima arrived the polling unit around 10 a.m. Recall that INEC said that 87,209,007 voters out of the 93,469,008 registered voters have collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and would be expected to vote. and met many other voters waiting for the arrival of election materials and officials.
Mr Tinubu is a registered voter at Polling Unit 085, Ward F, Sunday Adigun, Alausa, in Ikeja area of Lagos.
Good journalism costs a lot of money. PREMIUM TIMES visited the Registration Area Centres (RAC) around 8 a.m. They arrived one hour after voting ought to have started.
Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission arrived at polling unit 023, Alhaji Kukawa, Lawan Bukar area of Maiduguri metropolis, ...
Our correspondent observed that the officials who came in the company of security against set up the polling booth, as the waiting electorate queued for accreditation and voting. The officials who arrived in a grey Toyota Camry 2015 model and a Mercedes C180, are coming two hours after 08:30 am; the time when voting should have begun as the INEC chairman, Prof. Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission arrived at polling unit 023, Alhaji Kukawa, Lawan Bukar area of Maiduguri metropolis, at 10:42 am.
The Labour Party (LP) has kicked against the absence of presidential election results on the result viewing portal of the Independent National Electoral ...
They said that they have been given instruction to insist that the BVAS is faulty. And most of the places we won, but they have refused to upload. “Information reaching me has it that in Lagos, they have refused to upload the results for the presidential election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has flouted the promise it made on uploading results of elections in different polling units across the ...
A voter, John Egba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that his polling unit 053 was supposed to be at Government Secondary School, Aso. “When I got to the ...
INEC is supposed to sensitise voters to the change of polling units. Good journalism costs a lot of money. This is where they said is the right place, I am so tired, INEC should have done better,’’ Mr Egba said.
The postponement affects the presidential and national assembly elections in the area and the elections will now hold tomorrow.
The previous elections were held in 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019. Good journalism costs a lot of money. Nigerians go to the poll today to elect a new president and 468 federal lawmakers.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, has postponed elections in 141 polling units in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
“So we met with security agencies and we’ve decided that voting in these 141 polling units where the materials are actually intact, will take place tomorrow morning. The youth corps members who are serving as presiding officers and other commission staff, are agreeable that the elections should hold tomorrow morning.” But the youth corps members expressed some apprehension about going back.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who made this known at a real-time election briefing in Abuja on Saturday, noted that no Nigerian will be disenfranchised.
And we admitted that in some places, some polling units were opened late but the system has an automatic mechanism to recover lost time. Accreditation and voting were meant to start at 08:30am till 02:30pm but a few of the 176,606 polling units across Nigeria weren’t open on time due to logistics and security challenges. Similarly, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, expressed disappointment when the BVAS machine at his polling unit failed to accredit him and his wife.