LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to electronically transmit Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly election results in accordance with its regulations and guidelines. Justice Obiora Egwuatu in a judgment also ordered the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System to upload a scanned copy…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has granted the Labour Party (LP) access to the election materials that were used for the February 25, 2023 presidential and the National Assembly elections. LEADERSHIP reports that the Labour Party officials were inspecting the election materials at the Commission’s headquarters in Maitama, Abuja. The LP…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated in an analysis by one of its fellows that the February 25 presidential election showed that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC failed to learn new lessons. The London-based institute stressed that the electoral umpire failed to adhere to its own…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has officially postponed the March 11, 2023 Governorship and States Houses of Assemblies elections. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, confirmed this. In a statement late on Wednesday, Okoye said: “Following today’s ruling by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (EPT) on the…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that preventing…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Political Analyst, Sam Amadi, has insisted that the way INEC handled objections which were raised by some political parties during the announcement of the presidential election results contributed to the disputes being recorded currently. Sam Amadi went on to say that he has been able to identify four adminstrative errors that…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of the socio-cultural group, Afrnifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to release the actual voting results of Lagos State in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly election. Pa Adebanjo who spoke on Arise TV alleged that the presidential candidate of the Labour…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has vowed to punish its officials, including ad-hoc or collation personnel, who may have been found wanting in the conduct of the Saturday, February 25 Presidential and National Assembly Elections. INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral…