As a Follow-up on its report and advisory on election-related violence in the forthcoming general elections, the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, said it has taken several verifying, fact checking and advocacy visits to some states, to mitigate the “worrisome trend of violence” ahead of the polls at a briefing in Abuja on Thursday. The…
Parties Sue INEC Over Electronic Card Readers
Besides the delay in the collection of the Permanent Voters Cards PVC, and insecurity the emerging headache of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is the debate over the legality of the use of electronic card readers. Meanwhile, a Federal High Court in Abuja has refused an application filed by four political parties seeking to restrain…
INEC Records 63 Per Cent PVC Collection in Ogun
Timothy Ibitoye, Ogun State resident electoral commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday, March 2, corrected conflicting figures as far as Personal Voters Card, PVC, is concerned in Ogun State. Ibitoye said the actual number of registered voters are 1, 795, 794, while the PVC received so far from the National Headquarters…
INEC Defends Use of Card Readers
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has defended the effectiveness and reliability of electronic card readers it plans to use for the forthcoming 2015 general elections. Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Commission stated this while addressing the Senate today. He said a mock test conducted on the card readers which will be used in all…
APC Accuses PDP of Buying PVCs
The All Progressives Congress, APC has raised an allegation that some agents suspected to be working for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have devised means of purchasing Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs from unsuspecting members of the public. In addition to this, the party said some registered voters are being intimidated and their PVCs seized by…
Election Time table: INEC Yet To Take A Position – Jega
Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said that the Commission has not taken any position yet on the debate over whether the 2015 General elections should be postponed or not. Jega made the disclosure on Friday at a workshop on “Mitigation of Violence in Election,” organized by INEC in Abuja. “I don’t…
Lagos INEC Gets 5,995 Smart Card Readers
The Lagos office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has received a total of 5,995 smart cards and the first batch of 5,000 ballot boxes in preparation for the forthcoming general elections. This was announced today at the Commission’s office in Lagos by Akin Orebiyi, the new resident electoral commissioner of INEC in Lagos.…
Hoodlums Seize 4,503 Voters Cards in Akwa Ibom
Unidentified hoodlums have snatched about 4,503 Permanent Voter Cards from five Local Government Areas, LGA’s in Akwa Ibom State. The was disclosed in a statement issued by Austin Okojie, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC of the state. While addressing traditional rulers on Tuesday during a summit on peaceful conduct of 2015 elections in Uyo, Okojie…
PVC: Twins Allege Discrimination
A group of identical twins and other people of multiple births in the country have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene by stopping what they described as “the mass discrimination against them by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s biometric system.” The group said at least 1,000 sets of identical twins in the country have…
INEC Yet To Distribute PVC In Some Parts Of Rivers
By Chudi Eke-Ejelam As the Independent Electoral National Commission, INEC, begins the distribution of the Permanent Voters’ Card, PVC, in some parts of the federation today, residents of Rivers State, have decried the absence of INEC staff and materials in some parts of the state. According to reports, INEC officials are yet to arrive with…
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