INEC

"Anyone bearing an identity card allegedly issued by the Commission for security personnel can only be on illegal duty. Such a person is liable to arrest ...

Good journalism costs a lot of money. “We wish to state categorically that the identity card did not emanate from the Commission. It called on Nigerians to report anyone found with such a tag, saying anyone bearing the said tag is on illegal duty and is liable to arrest and prosecution.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is unlikely to do better in the ongoing governorship and state house of assembly elections than it.

Atiku said, “I still don’t believe in INEC. I have seen nothing up to now to believe that their performance will be better in how they handle this election than the last one.” He told newsmen that INEC did poorly during the presidential election and that the commission has taken no steps since then to make him believe that this round of elections will be better conducted.

John Alechenu, Abuja The Labour Party has raised alarm over what it described as a deliberate effort by the Secretary of the Independent National Electoral ...

“After noticing the slow pace of getting the results. They say a stitch in time saves nine.” Chief Spokesman for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Dr.

The governorship and House of Assembly elections on Saturday witnessed the late arrival of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, officials and voting ...

The same scenario obtained in other polling units in the area. Our correspondent who visited polling units in Odualabe, Arepo, Command, Ajasa Town Hall, White House and Yetkem, noticed that as at 8.50 am, electoral officials and materials were yet to arrive the units. The governorship and House of Assembly elections on Saturday witnessed the late arrival of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, officials and voting materials in many polling units in Agbado Oke Odo Local Council Development Area of Alimosho Local Government, Lagos State.

Some of the voters at the affected polling unit said they were unhappy with the way they had been systematically disenfranchised.

Good journalism costs a lot of money. At polling unit 020 on agungi, lekki environ, voting is yet to commence, INEC is yet to arrive at 1:15pm. On our part we can’t do anything to bring them here only INEC can do that.” Is this what was promised us by INEC? Some of the voters at the affected polling unit told Arise TV they were unhappy with the way they had been systematically disenfranchised. At Eti-Osa Local Government Area, Polling Unit 020 in Agungi in the Lekki area of the state, the election did not start early prompting voters in the area who had gathered to exercise their franchise in the area to complain about the development.

There is apprehension in Victoria Garden City on Lagos Island, Lagos State after officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ...

Thousands of people are in VGC here, but they say they are not coming in. All the polling units are here, but INEC has said they are not coming into VGC. They are going to set up on the express.

By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR. The deputy Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Emana Duke Ambrose-Amahwe has called on the Independent ...

Speaking further, she cautioned against vote buying and forcing people to vote against their wishes stressing that the agents are expected to act appropriately, and expressed optimism that things will go in her favour. She expressed happiness with the smooth way the process was going on in her unit while urging INEC and the electorates to replicate the same across the state. Her words:” We expect INEC to follow due diligence and hold themselves by the creed they stand by which is that people’s votes count.INEC should not disappoint the state so that confidence can be restored in the system.

The PDP Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, says he has lost confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC on the conduct of ...

He said: “I want to thank the people of Nassarawa… Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the state’s N1.768 trillion budget for 2023. Yusuf made the call shortly after casting a ballot at his polling unit 033 Balarabe Alalu primary school, Diso Chirenchi…

INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Segun Agbaje said elections in the affected polling units will now hold by 08:30am on Sunday. By Shola Soyele.

“Eight here (in the estate) and two outside,” he noted. Agbaje said the chairman of the security committee of the estate had assured the commission of the safety of corps members and INEC staff as well as the safety of voters. According to him, corps members deployed as ad hoc staff on Saturday were hesitant to enter the VGC estate as they alleged that they were held hostage in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Segun Agbaje, says the elections in the affected 10 polling units in Lagos will hold on Sunday.

“Eight here (in the estate) and two outside,” he noted. Good journalism costs a lot of money. to conduct the elections. While confirming that the chairman of the security committee of the estate had assured the commission of the safety of corps members and INEC staff and voters, Mr Agbaje said the last person in the queue by 2.30 p.m. [INEC](https://www.inecnigeria.org/)) said it postponed Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in the 10 polling units situated in Victoria Garden City. The hope of over 5,000 registered voters in the upscale Victoria Garden City area of Lagos State hangs in the balance as the governorship and State House of Assembly elections in the area were postponed on Saturday.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria Garden City ...

By 08:30am tomorrow (Sunday), we will reconvene here,” Agbaje said. He said the commission’s ad hoc staff set up voting materials in front of the estate on Saturday but the estate residents claimed that hoodlums might disrupt the process, so they did not feel secure and could not cast their votes. According to him, corps members deployed as ad hoc staff on Saturday were hesitant to enter the VGC estate as they alleged that they were held hostage in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

A a yet-to-be-identified INEC supervisory polling officer tried to abscond with the result sheet even before voting commenced at a polling...

The moment the result sheet was wrestled from him, he left the unit without saying a word. [READ ALSO: TIMELINE: Nigerian Presidential Election Results and Court Rulings From 1999](https://www.fij.ng/article/timeline-nigerian-presidential-election-results-and-court-rulings-from-1999/) [Peoples Democratic Party](https://peoplesdemocraticparty.com.ng/) (PDP) agent, who simply wished to be identified as Kehinde, said the voters present at the unit first noticed “something was not right” when the INEC ad-hoc staffer on the ground told everyone present that “voting would have to commence without a result sheet because none had been allocated to the unit”.

INEC has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in Victoria Garden City (VGC) estate in Lagos state.

Agbaje also said the chairperson of the security committee of the estate had assured the commission of the safety of corps members and INEC staff as well as the safety of voters. “So I had to inform the commission of what is happening here and after due consultation and further directive from the national headquarters, that we should remobilise here tomorrow (Sunday) morning by 8:30am to conduct the elections,” he said. Agbaje said the commission had then instructed that ad-hoc staff set up their canopies and voting materials in front of the estate.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has uploaded some election results from the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections.

The INEC, in a few days to the March 18 elections, however, said the technical issues had been rectified and assured that election results would be transmitted immediately. held on February 25. Recall that INEC had come under fire over its inability to upload results immediately on its Result Viewing portal during the presidential and National Assembly elections.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has uploaded some results from the ongoing governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections. The.

Checks on the portal today show that Ogun State has two results submitted while 12 results from Plateau State were submitted. Other states with results submitted on the portal include Zamfara State with 11 results, Rivers State with 80 results and Lagos State with 85 results. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has uploaded some results from the ongoing governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections.

By Prince Osuagwu. At polling unit 023 FHA Festac, voters have insisted that INEC officials will not leave until the result of the polling unit is uploaded ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in Lagos State.

Again, the All Progressive Congress (APC) national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, has lost his polling unit to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the governorship and house of assembly elections. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) around the Lekki area of Lagos State. By 08:30am tomorrow (Sunday), we will reconvene here,” Agbaje said.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shifted the governorship and state assembly elections at highbrow Victoria Garden.

The INEC officials arrived last that day and tried to leave early and we say they could not do that”. When we came out this morning and were told to go to the gate for the election. So most of them were hesitant to work in the estate again.

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu Over 16 Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, adhoc staff were attacked, and electoral materials including ballot boxes were ...

I came here to take the wounded INEC adhoc staff to hospital because am human. Jude Umennajiego, who was accosted at the headquarters of Onitsha South Local Government Area, as he was about taking some of the wounded INEC adhoc staff to hospital, told newsmen that the APGA candidate in contest with him discovered that he was going to be defeated in the election abd desuded to procure hoodlums to destroy the electoral materials and ballot boxes. A candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr.

The incident occurred at about 4: 12 p.m. at Ugbo Okonkwo Square 1 Polling Unit, New Haven Ward, Enugu North Local Government Area of the state during the ...

During the presidential and National Assembly elections on 25 February, the BVAS failed in many polling units across Nigeria, with some election officials saying they had no password for their BVAS machines. The bourgeoisies cannot continue to use it (BVAS) to shortchange the people. You cannot continue to take the people for granted. “What we are hearing is that they (INEC officials) cannot find the password to upload (the results). You people must be care,” an angry voter was heard yelling at the officials, who were seen struggling to operate the BVAS. The incident occurred at about 4: 12 p.m.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has so far uploaded 66634 election results from the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections.

Checks by our correspondent on Saturday at 9 pm showed election results were uploaded in 28 states. However, a few days to the March 18 elections, INEC said that the technical issues had been rectified and assured Nigerians that election results would be transmitted immediately. The PUNCH reports that opposition parties and some Nigerians knocked INEC over its failure to upload results immediately on its result viewing portal during the presidential election held on February 25 but the commission explained that technical glitches marred result transmission which many critics refused to accept.

The Zamfara State wing of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has conducted the governorship and state house of assembly elections.

So whoever loses should join forces with winner to build a better Zamfara State.” But in Gusau, the State capital, Tsafe, Bungudu and Maru Local Government Areas, there are serious struggles between the ruling APC and the opposition PDP in the State. At Talata Mafara, former Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, said after he voted that there was no cause to worry regarding the conduct of the governorship and state assembly elections in the local government area.

PORT HARCOURT – THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shifted to Sunday 19 March, the Governorship and State Assembly elections in Asari-Toru ...

“Standing on this premise and relying on section 24 of the Electoral Act 2022, the INEC has decided to conduct the election of Asari-Toru local Government Area and Ward 14 of Degema Local Government Area on the 19 of March, 2023”, the REC stated. Vanguard gathered there was commotion at the Registration Area Center (RAC) in Buguma, Headquarters of Asari-Toru LGA when voters couldn’t find the INEC Electoral Officers (EOs) and Result Sheets for the area. PORT HARCOURT – THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shifted to Sunday 19 March, the Governorship and State Assembly elections in Asari-Toru Local Government Area (LGA) and parts of neighboring Degema LGA where it failed to conduct the polls due to lapses.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday postponed governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria ...

Governorship and state Houses of Assembly candidates of the political parties, their supporters and other stakeholders are in anxious wait for the results ...

Similarly, there was sporadic shooting in Iperu Remo, Ikenne Local Government Area, when hoodlums snatched two ballot boxes at Polling Unit 05, Ward 03 in the Ayegbami area of the town. The statement read in part, “Election security: At the time of this report, the Situation Room observed tension in about five per cent of polling units. They later destroyed some of the ballot boxes and papers. Tension also gripped Evwreni community in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state as political thugs invaded polling units in the area and destroyed electoral materials, including the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines. “Specifically, in Polling Unit 009, Nto Edio 3 Ward in Obot Akara LGA of Akwa Ibom State, ballot boxes were destroyed by aggrieved political party members. Six persons were feared killed and several others injured in the Gboko area of Benue State. “As of the time we came, the presiding officer had fled the area. Also, suspected political hoodlums disrupted voting across the state. The number of arrests is still being compiled by our field officers. The crew were also detained before they were released. Another person was burnt to death in Katsina State. Opposition parties and many observers knocked INEC over its failure to immediately upload results on its portal after the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections.

The Lagos State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Olusegun Agbaje, has rescheduled voting at ...

They argued that there was no way over 5000 voters could finish voting between 2pm when the election would have started and 7pm when the REC wanted the election to end. He said INEC staff came late to the estate and wanted to leave early. “Eight here (in the estate) and two outside,” he noted. Agbaje said the chairman of the security committee of the estate had assured the commission of the safety of corps members and INEC staff as well as the safety of voters and said that the election should commence but should end by 7pm. He said two of the polling units have over 1,000 registered voters, adding that at the end of the exercise, it was discovered that the number of accredited voters shown by the BVAS did not correspond with number of votes cast, which may invalidate the entire voting at that centre. He said he could no longer subject innocent NYSC members and other staff to such an excruciating experience, the reason INEC, had during the week wrote to the management of the estate that their polling centres had been re-designated to outside the gate.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will begin collation of results for the governorship elections in Lagos and Ogun states on Sunday ...

Similarly, the Ogun Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Niyi Ijalaye, disclosed that collation of the governorship and house of assembly election results would be suspended till 9 am on Sunday. Channels Television reports that collation of results for the Lagos governorship election has been postponed to 11 am on Sunday due to non-arrival of any results from the local government areas (LGAs) the day before. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will begin collation of results for the governorship elections in Lagos and Ogun states on Sunday morning (today).

The PUNCH reports that the election was peaceful with low turnout in virtually all the polling units in the state.

Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has described elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission under the leadership of ...

He said the person who nominated Yakubu for INEC appointment is a member of Bola Tinubu’s camp. Amaechi said, “I have spoken to everybody concerned on this issue before the election. Addressing journalists on Saturday during the governorship and State Assembly elections, Amaechi said he was one of those who kicked against Yakubu’s reappointment.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has rescheduled voting for Sunday in 10 polling units at Victoria Garden City, VGC, Lagos, ...

Amaechi said this while addressing journalists after casting his vote at Ward 8, Unit 17 in Ubima Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state.

“Some of us were opposed to the reappointment of Mohmood. The person who nominated him is Tinubu’s camp. A former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State was not contesting against the Peoples Democratic Party, but against the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Police.

Voters had resisted the deployment of voting materials and election officials to the areas, says INEC.

Good journalism costs a lot of money. The REC said the Commission had decided to conduct the election in the areas on Sunday, relying on section 24 of the Electoral Act 2022. The INEC in Rivers State on Saturday said the commission was ready to conduct the election in Asari-Toru Local Government Area and Ward 14 of Degema Local Government Area on Sunday.

INEC has declared the collation centre for the governorship and state house of assembly elections opened.

INEC has declared the collation centre for the governorship and state house of assembly elections opened. He said by then, many results would have come in for the collation to fully commence. Cross River: INEC announces Sunday for commencement of result collation

Inec dey ready to announce results for govnorship elections for 28 states and State House of Assemblies for 36 states for Nigeria.

Observers tell BBC Pidgin say dem experience low voter turnout for some areas wey dem monitor di election. Election go hold for dis places on Sunday Some of di places wey dey affected be VGC for Lagos, and some parts of two local goment for Rivers state.

Meanwhile, INEC postponed the governorship and State House of Assembly elections last Saturday in 10 polling units situated in Victoria Garden City (VGC). INEC ...

Although results weren't directly uploaded on the IReV portal in real time during the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, ...

In Enugu, 3,811 of the 4,145 PU results are up. In Cross River, 2,367 of 3,281 are up. In Kano, 7,014 of the 11,222 PU results are up. In Gombe, 2,129 of the 2,988 results are up. 1,834 have been uploaded out of 3,597 PU results in Taraba. In Zamfara, 2,125 PU results have been uploaded out of 3,529.