VIOLENT ATTACKS IN THE SOUTH-EAST: POLICE ARREST MILITANTS’ SPY GIRL

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force in collaboration with the Military and other security forces has arrested a 22-year-old female suspect, Gloria Okolie for complicity in the series of deliberate and well-coordinated attacks on security formations and killing of security operatives in the South-Eastern part of the Country.

Polls: INEC distributes election materials to LGAs in Osun

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun on Thursday distributed election materials to all the 30 local government areas in the state, ahead the State House of Assembly election on Saturday.

Mr Olusegun Agbaje, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), distributed the electoral materials in the presence of political party agents at the Central Bank of Nigeria premises in Osogbo.

“What we have left here this year in Osun is the House of Assembly or what we call state constituency election. “The state has 26 House of Assembly seats and we have 22 local government areas in the state that will produce one representative each.

“Eight local government areas will produce four representatives that is one representative for two local government areas. “What we are doing today is distributing the election materials to these local government areas, starting with the eight local government areas that are sharing one constituency/producing one representative.

Breaking: Why I want INEC to surrender election materials for inspection – Atiku

….as tribunal okays stand-down to deliver a ruling

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,  PDP,  Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, adduced reasons why he applied for an order to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  to surrender all the materials used for the February 23 presidential election, for inspection.

He said the request was to establish that the exercise was fraught with manifest irregularities, including multiple thumb-printing of ballot papers, saying he intends to engage forensic experts to analyse the election materials.

Consequently, he prayed the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, for leave to be allowed to obtain some of the sensitive materials that INEC deployed for the presidential election. Meantime, the tribunal, stood-down its proceedings for one hour to enable it to consider the merit or otherwise of the request.

Women storm INEC headquarters, fault military involvement in elections

Women protesting
against
Independent National
Electoral Commission,
INEC, in Owerri.

The women who marched to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Abuja, on the auspices of Save Democracy Women, also called on the electoral umpire to demonstrate high level of non partisanship in Saturday’s elections.

Led by May Uneku, convener, Impact Future Nigeria, the women carried placards bearing various inscriptions to press home their demands.

Some of the placards read: “Nepotism must stop,” “Restore our stolen mandate,” “No place for tyranny in modern democracy’,” “Save our democracy,” “Black cloud over Nigeria,” “Let our votes count,” among others.

Our official didn’t demand bribe from Ibrahim –INEC

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu

The Independent National Electoral Commission has denied the allegation made by Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim that its official asked for $1m bribe before his name could be listed as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State.

INEC messing up democracy, says Fayose

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission is messing up democracy in the country with its handling of elections under the President Muhammadu Buhari government.

The governor described the postponement of the Rivers State rerun elections and the alleged manipulation of the Imo North Senatorial election as another dangerous signal of what Nigerians should expect in 2019.