The Kano state office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed its readiness to conduct of all bye-elections in the state.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promoted 5,196 members of its staff nationwide.
The electoral umpire, in a statement by a National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Sam Olumekun on Wednesday, said the leave follows the implementation of a policy mandating all directors with eight years or more of service to retire from the public sector.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed dates to conduct bye-elections into different vacancies of legislative houses, which resulted from resignations or deaths of elected lawmakers.
ASHENEWS reports that the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC)/Transparency International in Nigeria have called on the National Assembly (NASS) to amend the Electoral Act for pre-election matters to be not litigable after announcement of the winner of an election.
An Appeal Court sitting in Lagos State on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole, against Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“I believe whatever form of democracy we have or whatever system of government we have, three or four men in the judiciary should not be able to overturn the decisions of millions that have voted.
There are ominous signs from the 11th November Off-Cycle Elections and from Election Petition Tribunals that electoral democracy is under serious threat in the country today. The CDD Election Analysis Centre (CDD-EAC) report outlines key findings on the conduct of the elections in Bayelsa State, Imo State and Kogi States. There were extensive incidents related to the abuse of the powers of incumbency, high levels of vote buying by politicians, use of identity markers for political manipulation, orchestrated disinformation campaigns and failure of some institutions such as INEC, political parties and security agencies to perform their duties properly.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Bayelsa state governor, Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the state governorship off-cycle election, which took place on November 11.
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Usman Ododo has won Saturday’s off-cycle Governorship Election in Kogi.