PUNCH NEWSPAPER An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Friday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission not to remove the All Progressives Congress and its governorship candidate, David Lyon, from the ballot, to enable him to participate in the…
LEGIT NEWS Few days to the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not seem to be happy over recent developments emerging from the courts. The electoral umpire says it is faced with the…
THIS DAY IG deploys 32,000 Police officers. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the Inspector General of Police, Mr Adamu Mohammed, yesterday met with political stakeholders in Bayelsa ahead of the November 16…
PUNCH NEWSPAPER The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will carry out an assessment of the implementation of electoral activities to ensure the successful conduct of the Bayelsa State governorship election. INEC said it would examine the preparations in each…
PUNCH NEWS The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Wednesday that it had borrowed about 2,500 smart card readers from its office in Rivers State to support the conduct of the governorship election in Bayelsa State. The Resident Electoral…
THIS DAY A meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and stakeholders in Bayelsa State towards ensuring a free, fair and credible governorship election scheduled for November 16 ended in chaos Wednesday. The meeting was held in Yenagoa and…
VANGUARD The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will begin the distribution of 219,935 uncollected Personal Voter Cards (PVCs) in Bayelsa and Kogi on Sept. 2 preparatory to governorship elections in the states. The commission announced this in a…
GUARDIAN The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday admitted that the November 16,2019 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa would be challenging due to the history of political violence in the two states. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Voter Education…