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Ahead of the Edo and Ondo gubernatorial elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission is ready to begin the Continuous Voters’ Registration. The INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu revealed this during a gathering with political parties at the commission’s Abuja headquarters on Monday. The CVR will start from May 27 and go on till June 5, 2024. […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has officially released the final list of candidates for the upcoming governorship election in Edo State following the initial primaries. INEC had previously made public the personal information of the governorship candidates and their running mates at state and local government offices in Edo State. The election is scheduled to take place […]

The Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, and his party, the All Progressives Congress, will start their defence on April 15 at the state’s governorship election tribunal in Abuja. The Social Democratic Party and its candidate, Muritala Ajaka, are contesting the declaration of Ododo as the winner of the November 11, 2023 governorship election.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Saturday, published the forms and particulars of political parties’ candidates submitted for the Edo State governorship election holding on September 21. The particulars were displayed at the INEC office in Aduwawa in Benin, the state capital, and in all its 18 local government offices in the state. The list […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that at least 19 political parties have informed the commission about their plans to hold their primaries for the governorship election in the state. The commission previously set April as the time for the parties’ primaries, and scheduled November 16, 2024 for the governorship election.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has disowned Wednesday’s Labour Party‘s national convention held in Anambra. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, said this in Abuja on Thursday. Oyekanmi said that the conduct of the convention was not monitored by INEC, declining to state further why it was not monitored. The LP […]

Seventeen political parties met the deadline to select candidates for the upcoming governorship election in Edo State. Before the governorship poll, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced that it would release the details of the 17 candidates and their running mates on March 30, 2024. The state governorship election is set to take place on […]

Ahead of the forthcoming Edo and Ondo governorship elections, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has urged security agencies to leverage on the success of the previous election in both states. Yakubu stated this at a meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security in Abuja on Friday. The Edo governorship […]

Ahead of the Ondo State governorship election, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has urged Civil Society Organisations to engage with political parties and observe their primaries. Yakubu stated this at the first quarterly consultative meeting with CSOs in Abuja on Wednesday. “For Ondo State, political parties will commence their primaries for […]