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Thursday, 16 March 2023 13:45

INEC server and other Election Day stories - Azu Ishiekwene

For the third time since 1999, I voted at a general election on February 25 and did so without much hassle. I knew my candidates would lose at the unit where I voted, but that didn’t matter. Voting mattered more. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) processed me so quickly it was almost like magic. I had no reason to suspect my experience would not be the norm that day. As I walked away from the booth a family friend who had just voted caught up with me. “Thank God that I have voted,” she said. “What gives me even…

Thursday, 16 March 2023 03:20

Lawyer asks court to nullify presidential election over INEC’s failure to upload results to IReV portal

An Abuja-based lawyer, Bob James, has sued Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the delay in uploading the results of the presidential and National Assembly elections from polling units to the IReV portal. In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, the plaintiff listed INEC and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) as defendants. James argued that INEC was under “statutory duty to upload electronically on its portal the results of the presidential and National Assembly elections held on 25 February…immediately” from every polling station across Nigeria. Citing section 60 of the Electoral Act 2022 and…

Wednesday, 15 March 2023 06:13

Gov election: Obi Campaign warns against stoking ethnic tension in Lagos

PRESS RELEASE There has been a contrived ethnic tension in Lagos State since the outcome of the last Presidential election, in which our Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmad, performed above the expectations of our critics and consequently set some political parties on a panic mode. This panic mode is accentuated by their knowledge of our real performance in the February 25, 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections, not by the results announced by INEC. Playing up the fear factor In Lagos, the fear factor being currently stoked and weaponized is that the Igbos would take…

Wednesday, 15 March 2023 06:08

Nigeria’s young voters aren’t done yet, CNN reports

Rinu Oduala As the sun began to rise over the bustling city of Lagos, Nigeria, a group of young people dressed in t-shirts and jeans were already gathered outside a polling station. Joining the slow-moving queue, these young, educated voters had one common goal – to make a difference. They had grown up in a country plagued by corruption, poverty and political instability, and were tired of waiting for change to come from the top. They remember the day, in October 2020, when the sound of gunshots and screams filled the air as the military opened fire on unarmed protesters…

Tuesday, 14 March 2023 05:58

God’s name not to be used to justify electoral fraud - Obi

Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 25 February election, Peter Obi, has said that he would not be cowed into accepting the results as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as God’s wish for the country. Obi stated this during an interview on Arise News TV on Monday. While reiterating his utmost respect for traditional rulers and religious leaders, the former Anambra governor disagreed with the narrative being pushed by some of them that the outcome of the recent polls as pronounced by INEC was the will of God for the country. He said: “I’m…

Tuesday, 14 March 2023 05:57

INEC chair meets Obi’s legal team, says Commission ‘has nothing to hide’

Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the commission has nothing to hide from the Labour Party (LP). Speaking during a meeting with the legal team of the LP on Monday, the INEC chairman said the commission would make available any document the party requests. Yakubu told the legal team that materials at the commission’s headquarters would be provided. He said a meeting would be fixed between states and the team to inspect materials in the custody of states’ offices of the commission across the country. “I want to assure you that the commission will not hide…

Tuesday, 14 March 2023 05:56

Presidential, NASS elections ‘not perfect’, APC national chair admits

National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu, on Monday admitted that the conduct of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly poll was not ‘perfect.’ Adamu made the statement while giving a speech at the parley of APC National Working Committee with the president-elect, Bola Tinubu; vice president-elect, Kashim Shettima and members-elect of the National Assembly. The closed-door meeting was held at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja. Among dignitaries spotted at the event were Shettima; Senate President Ahmed Lawan; Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; Godswill Akpabio, among others. The…

Tuesday, 14 March 2023 05:55

Atiku’s running mate Okowa explains why Obi swept votes in Southeast, Southsouth

Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, leveraged on a lot of factors to garner sweeping victory in the Southsouth and Southeast geopolitical zones in the February 25 presidential election. Okowa, who is also the governor of Delta State, said this on Monday in Asaba while reacting to the outcome of the February 25 presidential election. He said, “A lot of factors contributed to the sweeping victory of Obi in Southsouth and Southeast. “The agitation that the presidency should come to the southern part of…

Tuesday, 14 March 2023 05:53

Pro-Tinubu group stages protest against Atiku, Obi in Abuja

A group of protesters on Monday staged a demonstration in the federal capital territory (FCT), warning Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Labour Party (LP), against intimidating the judiciary. The group known as The Natives said both candidates should allow the courts to address their grievances without intimidating them. Speaking with reporters, Smart Edwards, leader of the group, said Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the election because he was better prepared. Edwards said it is time for the PDP candidate to retire from politics. “The Obidients…

Monday, 13 March 2023 06:06

LP says supporters to occupy INEC offices nationwide for failure to obey court order on inspection of election materials

The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, on Sunday, reiterated that its supporters won’t back down on their planned nationwide demonstration unless the Independent National Electoral Commission grants LP’s lawyers access to materials from the contentious February 25 presidential election. Controversies had trailed the outcome of the presidential election where presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party flag bearer, who got 6,984,520 and 6,101,533 votes, respectively. Dissatisfied by the result, both Obi and Atiku approached the election tribunal to seek permission to inspect the…

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Monday, 13 March 2023 06:03

We received no gratification before declaring support for Makinde’s second term - Oyo Arewa Community

The Arewa community in Oyo State has disclosed that it did not collect money before it decided to support Governor Seyi Makinde. Arewa community is the umbrella body of the Hausa tribe in the state. The community said it decided to support the second term ambition of the governor because of what he did for them. It would be recalled that some individuals from the Arewa community had claimed that they rejected money given to them by the governor in order to support him for another term. However the community said it did not collect any dime before deciding to…

Sunday, 12 March 2023 06:06

INEC yet to upload complete results to IReV 2 weeks after presidential election

More than two weeks after the presidential election, Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to upload the complete results from all polling units unto its Results Viewing portal, better known as IReV. Checks by our correspondent at about 9pm on Saturday, March 11, showed that so far, the commission has uploaded 166,168 results from 176,846 polling units. This represents 93.96 per cent of results from all the polling units. With 166,168 results uploaded, it shows that results from 10,678 polling units are yet to be uploaded unto the commission’s result viewing portal. Nigerians expected that the election results would be…

Saturday, 11 March 2023 06:07

INEC refused to grant us access to election materials despite two court orders, Atiku, Obi cry out

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) have demanded compliance with the orders granting them access to inspect materials used for the February 25 presidential elections. A letter to the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, by the PDP Legal Team signed by Joe-Kyari Gadzama on Friday, said since the Court of Appeal on March 3 and 8 granted access to materials used for the election, the commission has refused to comply. The appellate court panel led by Joseph Ikyegh had issued “an order allowing the PDP to carry out a forensic examination/analysis of the…

Saturday, 11 March 2023 06:06

INEC, LP disagree on process of BVAS reconfiguration

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says political parties are not allowed to witness the backup or reconfiguration of the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) machines. Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), had sought an order of the court restraining the INEC from tampering with the information embedded in the BVAS machines until the due inspection was conducted and certified true copies (CTC) of them issued. But Tanimu Inuwa, counsel to the INEC, had assured that no information in the BVAS would be lost during the reconfiguration as all data would be transferred to the commission’s backend server.…

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