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Emerging reports indicate that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed Saturday's governorship and state assembly elections to ...

The election was scheduled to hold on Saturday, 11th March, two weeks after the presidential election.

Both the PDP and LP have rejected the election which INEC declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, as winner. Good journalism costs a lot of money. The Court of Appeal had granted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and their respective candidates, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi’s request to inspect all sensitive materials used in the conduct of the recent presidential election.

The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of the Independent National Electoral ...

This is because if they are wiped out, it will affect the substance of the case”, Ikpeazu added. “We need the BVAS configured. “Each polling unit has its own particular BVAS machine which we need to configure for the forthcoming elections. INEC insisted that granting the request by Obi would affect its preparations for the impending governorship and houses of assembly elections. Dismissing objections by LP and Obi, the court held that the backup files on the server cannot be lost and that restraining INEC will affect the forthcoming governorship elections. According to the court, allowing the objections by Obi and his party, would amount to “tying the hands of the Respondent, INEC”.

The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ...

“We need the BVAS configured. The applicants, through their team of lawyers led by Dr. “We have already stated in our affidavit that no information in the BVAS will be lost as we will transfer all the data in the BVAS to our back-end server.

The court of appeal has refused the request of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party to restrain the Independent National Electoral ...

The Court of Appeal, however, ordered INEC to upload the data on the BVAS machines to the back-end server and make certified true copies of the data to the ...

in company with the Labour Party national chairman, Julius Abure, and senator-elect, Victor Umeh. Good journalism costs a lot of money. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that INEC asked the court to vary the order to allow it to reconfigure the BVAS machines for the 11 March governorship and state houses of assembly elections. The INEC IT expert further noted that “the accreditation data on the BVAS devices cannot be tampered with and/or lost during upload to the accreditation backend server.” [Independent National Electoral Commission](https://twitter.com/inecnigeria) (INEC) to upload the data on the BVAS machines to the back-end server and make certified true copies of the data to the respondents. The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted INEC permission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used for the 25 February presidential and National Assembly elections across the country.

The court of appeal has refused to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from reconfiguring the bimodal voter accreditation system ...

Our backend server preserves the data. The court also emphasised that it never granted Obi and LP permission to access the database of INEC as misconceived by the electoral body. Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, on Friday, secured leave of the court to have access to all the sensitive materials used by the INEC in the conduct of the election held on February 25.

Mr Tinubu had filed an ex parte application on Tuesday urging the court to allow him have access to the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines ...

I accordingly grant him leave to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the electoral materials.” Good journalism costs a lot of money. On 1 March, Mahmood Yakubu, INEC’s chairman, declared Mr Tinubu who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the election.

Due to its inability to commence the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS, machines on time, the Independent National Electoral ...

The court granted the reliefs and with regards to the BVAS, said; “That leave is hereby granted to the applicants to carry out Digital Forensic Inspection of BVAS machines used for the conduct of the 25th February 2023 Election for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” “An order granting leave to the applicants to carry out Digital Forensic Inspection of BVAS machines used for the conduct of the 25th February 2023 election for the Office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” The Court of Appeal, yesterday, gave the commission the nod to reconfigure the BVAS used for the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly polls in readiness for the state elections.

Nigerians have condemned the posture of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the request by...

“It was obvious they were playing a script on that day, otherwise, how do you rush to announce election results that went against your rules? “I do not think the current INEC can maintain its independence, especially looking at the way top officials of the commission were appointed by politicians. In doing so, they seek to inspect the BVAS and other election documents The Mahmoud Yakubu-led INEC is a huge disappointment.” If they are honest people, they would have allowed the inspection to take place and postpone the governorship election, after all, the handing over isn’t taking place till May,” he added. It restrained INEC from tampering with the BVAS machines until due inspection was conducted and certified true copies of them were issued.

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to fix all bugs or glitches in the Bimodal Voter ...

“Stemming from these observations and in view of the impending governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections fixed for March 18, 2023, the NBA urges INEC to ensure that all bugs or glitches in the BVAS machines and other election technology are fixed and improved and that INEC staff (including collation and returning officers) with proven cases of misconduct in the February 25, 2023, election be excluded from the March 11, 2023, election. “These include the late arrival of INEC officials and ballot materials at the polling stations, malfunctioning BVAS machines, limited or non-transmission of the results from the polling units to the INEC Results Viewing Portal, IReV, insecurity at some polling units including violent attacks on voters and officials, voter intimidation, snatching and destruction of voting materials, significant cases of vote-buying and limited access facilities for persons living with disabilities. The Bar also asked INEC to exclude its collation and returning officers with proven cases of misconduct in the February 25 elections from the forthcoming polls.

March 18. Okoye said, the shift was to enable the electoral umpire back up the data and reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines ...

“Political parties can apply for Certified True Copies of the backend data of the BVAS. “For instance, the BVAS can only be activated on the specific date and time of an election. This has been the practice for all elections, including the period when the Commission was using the Smart Card Readers.

With barely 48 hours to the conduct of the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections, the Court of Appeal, yesterday, refused to restrain the ...

“We must not forget that the court ordered INEC to allow Obi and LP to inspect and carry out digital forensic examination of all the electoral materials used, as well as to avail them the CTCs of the result of the physical inspection of BVAS. MEANWHILE, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has urged INEC to fix all glitches in the BVAS machines before Saturday’s elections. INEC ought to have moved the governorship election by one week only from March 11 to 18, to allow the said inspection and certification to be concluded, so matters of details being tampered with won’t arise.” Also, the court ordered INEC to allow the President-elect, Tinubu, inspect electoral materials used for the conduct of the election. According to him, the court was trying to prevent INEC from finding an excuse to postpone the governorship election. In contrast, some complained the BVAS gave an “error” sign anytime they tried to upload. They argued that if the court does not grant the leave, the same vote manipulations would occur on March 11. According to sources, INEC management was last night holding a meeting, where it was considering either March 18 or March 25 for the elections. Nella Rabana (SAN), Paul Ogbole (SAN), Nuremi Jimoh (SAN), and Abdul Ibrahim (SAN). YESTERDAY, Atiku inaugurated a legal team to challenge the election. The court, in a unanimous decision, held that stopping the electoral body from reconfiguring BVAS would adversely affect Saturday’s elections. This is as INEC, last night, postponed the governorship and states Assembly elections slated for March 11 till March 18.

The Returning Officer for the Federal Constituency elections held, on February 25, professor Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai, Wednesday made the announcement saying the ...

He explained that the total number of PVC’s collected in the 13 polling units that were cancelled stood at 6,917 as against the over 4000 votes margin between APC and NNPP. He added, “the total number of votes domicile in the polling units that were cancelled have submerge the margin of votes difference cast in favour of the duo of APC and NNPP.” “INEC in compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act has reviewed the results and the reviewed elections results stands as follows, APC 39,732, NNPP 34, 798, PDP 7,091 and there were cancellation of results in 13 polling units” he said.

By Ogochukwu Okoronkwo The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has postponed the Governorship and State Assembly elections from the 11th to 18 ...

This has been the practice for all elections.” It added that Political parties can apply for Certified True Copies of the backend data of the BVAS and the results on the BVAS will continue to be available on the IReV for interested parties to access. A statement signed by the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr.