By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended indefinitely the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise nationwide. INEC also directed all the Resident Electoral Commissioners and Electoral Officers to continue with the exercise pending further directives from the commission. The National Commissioner and Chairman Information...
2023 Elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reminded political parties that the deadline for uploading list and particulars of the their nominees remains July 15. The commission made the disclosure in a statement issued by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, on Thursday...
Prof. Wahab Egebwole (SAN) of the University of Ilorin (Unilorin) has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enforce the basic constitutional educational qualification prescribed for all political office seekers. Egbewole gave the advice on Thursday in Ilorin during an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed worries over the low rate of Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) collection in Lagos State. The State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, made this known at the Eighth Annual Constituency Stakeholders’ Meeting held on Thursday in Lagos. The News Agency of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it plans to unveil an e-membership platform for its youths wing to allow more Nigerian youths to join the party. Mr Dayo Israel, National Youth Leader, APC, said this on Wednesday in Abuja when he inaugurated the APC Youth Wing National Special Task...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Over 10,000 youths from Akpabuyu, Calabar South and Bakassi LGAs on Wednesday threatened to dumped The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) if the party fail to present a credible deputy governorship candidate. The youths who stormed the PDP Secretariat along Mary Slessor Highway, carried placards...
Minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola has asked Nigerians to vote based on track record in the 2023 general election. Fashola said this at the sixth edition of the annual ‘BRF GABFEST’ which was held in Lagos and had the theme ‘What Am I Voting For?’. The Minister who reacted to someone...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has said the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) will sustain the hearing and healing process that it started to ensure fairness, justice and oneness before the 2023 general elections. The president gave the assurance on Tuesday in Abuja during an...
Many residents of Abuja have alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is making it difficult for them to be registered for the Continuous Voters Card (CVR) . They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja that they left their homes as early as...
The Borno Chairman of New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP), Mr Mohammed Mustafa, said the party had registered over two million members and supporters in the state Mustafa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri on Sunday that the party was very popular in Borno and now set...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) is an assemblage of unorganized power seekers that has no interest of this country at heart. Governor Tambuwal, who spoke before receiving high profile politicians, including 3 governorship aspirants of...
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra says the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) remains the most formidable political party in Anambra and third in Nigeria as the country inches closer to the 2023 general elections. Soludo, who stated this while addressing party faithful at the Governor’s Lodge Amawbia, Awka South...
The Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation on Saturday, described the allegations by Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy against the Presidential Candidate, All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as untrue. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Communications of the organisation, stated this while responding to the allegations...
Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle on Saturday assured that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would sweep the 2023 general election with a landslide. Governor Matawalle spoke while receiving Dr Betta Edu, the APC National Women Leader in Maradun, the governor’s country home on Saturday. Edu was in the state...
Catholic Bishop of Minna Diocese, Martins Uzoukwu, has urged Christians to get permanent voters card and register in any political party of their choice in electing credible leaders in 2023. Uzoukwu gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Minna on Saturday. ”...
Not a few analysts would have sworn that having defied all the odds to defeat all his opponents at the very transparent national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the matter of choosing who will run with him on the APC ticket would be a mere walk...
A socio-cultural group, the Ladies of Substance, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to improve on the innovation of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to ensure it performs optimally during the 2023 elections. The group Team Lead, Mrs Mojisola Akinbohun, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu has named Kabiru Masari as his running mate for the 2023 elections. A chieftain of the party Kabiru Faskari said this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “Ibrahim Kabiru Masari is our vice presidential nominee. He was the Welfare...
Senate Chief Whip Orji Kalu says he will work for the success of All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Candidate, Chief Bola Tinubu in the 2023 elections. Kalu told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday that he would make for Tinubu, the same level of efforts he devoted to the Senate...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC Presidential flag bearer in the 2023 elections. Buhari’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in Abuja. The president...