The National Commissioner of INEC, Festus Okoye said the time frame has been pushed forward by one week – February 5, 2023.

Okoye said the move followed a meeting of INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs).

In a statement on Saturday, Okoye said, “Arising from reports from the various States and discussions with Resident Electoral Commissioners, the Commission has decided to further extend PVC collection in all its Local Government Offices nationwide by an additional one week. The ongoing collection of PVCs nationwide will therefore continue and end on 5th February 2023.

“This is the second time the Commission is extending PVC collection nationwide and this will be the last extension of the exercise. The collection period has further been extended by an additional two hours and will start at 9 am and end at 5 pm daily including Saturdays and Sundays.”

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Presiding Judge, Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu ordered the APC to forward the name of Machina to INEC as the authentic winner of the primary, which was held on 28/05/2022.

The judge described the primary election where Senate President Ahmad Lawan emerged as the candidate as a “phantom”.

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Biodun Oyebanji is a former secretary to the state government (SSG), Daily Dates Nigeria reports.

Oyabanji won 15 out of the 16 LGAs in the State.

He garnered a total of 187,057 votes to defeat his two closest challengers; Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who got 82,211 votes and Bisi Kolawole of the People’s Democratic Party who secured 67,457 votes.

Professor Kayode Oyebode, returning officer for the election, declared Oyebanji the winner in the early hours of Sunday. A total of 16 candidates participated in the election. The total valid votes in the election were 351,865, void votes, 8,888 and total votes cast, 360,753.

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INEC announced that a supplementary election will hold in 362 polling units in Ihiala Local Government Area on November 9.

The Returning Officer of the Anambra State governorship election, Professor Florence Obi said the election had to take place in those polling units for the governorship election to be conclusive.

Obi noted that the reports of insecurity in Ihiala stopped the commission from conducting elections there.

However, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, currently leads with a total vote of 103, 946.

Below is the final result:
A – 1793
AA – 76
AAC- 580
ADC – 313
ADP – 743
APC – 42,942
APGA – 103,946
APM – 288
APP – 133
BP- 173
LP- 2697
NNPP – 111
NRM – 207
PDP – 51,322
PRP – 428
SDP – 782
YPP – 20917
ZLP – 2070.

Total valid votes: 229521
Rejected votes: 7841
Total votes cast: 237362.

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Jega said this at the ongoing maiden inaugural lecture of the Kwara Visioners, at the University of Ilorin Main Auditorium, Ilorin, Kwara State.

Jega said, “I have no presidential ambition, I have no ambition, I didn’t disclose to anyone that I have an ambition.

“Though, I have joined a political party with the intention of contributing my little quota to the development of the country.

“There’s a lot of process that contributes to running for office, I’m not interested for now.

“I am a Muslim and believe in destiny, I don’t know what the almighty God has in stock for me.”

The Head of Current and Public Affairs, TVC, Babajide Kolade Otitoju, 2019 Presidential Candidate of the ANRP, Tope Fasua, Former Unilorin Vice-Chancellor, Professor Shuaib Abdulraheem Oba are also in attendance.

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The Upper legislative chamber, Senate rejected Lauretta Onochie’s appointment after Kabiru Gaya, Chairman of the INEC committee, presented a report in plenary.

Lauretta was nominated for the job by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2020.

While presenting the report on Thursday, Gaya said the presidential aide was disqualified on federal character principles, adding that there is currently a serving commissioner from Delta state, where Onochie hails from.

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The protest was led by the National Chairman, Uche Secondus.

PDP is demanding the immediate reversal of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Lauretta Onochie as National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Lauretta Onochie is currently the media aide to President Buhari on Social Media.

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INEC’s Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye in a statement said: “the CVR online pre-registration portal was launched at 7 am on Monday, June 28, 2021. By 7 am, June 29, 2021, twenty-four hours after the launch, 59,331 accounts were created. Within the same period, 42,211 applications were received out of which 27,759 individuals applied for new voter pre-registration services.

“11, 177 requested for voter review record; 1, 669 applied for voter transfer; 853 asked for information update; 335 applied for replacement of lost or damaged PVCs; while 418 applicants requested for uncollected PVCs. These statistics have been uploaded to the commission’s website and social media platforms.”

He assured citizens that the commission will provide them weekly updates on the activities on the portal and the online registration status.

The statement read further, “It is imperative to remind Nigerians that physical CVR will commence on 19th July 2021 at INEC state and local government offices nationwide. Those that are unable to register online will be attended to from the scheduled date. Every eligible Nigerian will have an opportunity to register. The CVR process will continue for at least one year.

“Scheduled appointments for online registrants will also begin on July 19, 2021, while the commencement date for physical CVR in all the 2, 673 registration centres nationwide will be determined based on the evaluation of the security situation in the country.

“We encourage those that can register online to do so, while all other Nigerians will commence their registration on the 19th July 2021.”

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The Supreme Court dismissed the suit alleging certificate forgery against the governor and candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2020 governorship election in the state, Daily Dates Nigeria.

In the run-up to the election, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and one of its chieftains, Williams Edobor, had filed a suit against Obaseki at the Federal High Court, Abuja, alleging that the governor forged his Ordinary level (O’level) and university degree certificates which he tendered to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as part of his qualifications for the September 19, 2020, governorship election in Edo State.

The plaintiffs had asked the court to disqualify the first defendant, who won the election, in the event that he forged his university certificate obtained from the University of Ibadan (UI) in 1979.

However, in a judgement on January 9, 2021, the trial judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, held that the plaintiffs provided no iota of evidence before the court to establish that Obaseki forged either his O’level certificate or his degree certificate and therefore dismissed the suit.

Dissatisfied with the court’s decision, the APC had approached the Court of Appeal.

In a March 18, 2021, judgement, the appellate court held that the lower court was right in its findings and conclusions.

The court also held that the appeal lacked merit, and dismissed the suit accordingly.

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The party’s Director of Organisation, Al-Mustapha Medaner, disclosed this in a schedule of activities for the election released on Thursday in Abuja. He said the governorship expression of interest form cost N2.5 million while the nomination form will be sold at N20 million.

Medaner said female and physically challenged aspirants will be given a 50 percent discount on the prescribed fees for the position.

He stated that the exercise will be done in accordance with the provisions of the 2010 Electoral Act as amended and the INEC guidelines.

According to him, the sale of forms will commence from April 15 to June 8 at the party’s national secretariat.

Medaner said the deadline for submission of the completed forms and accompanying documents is June 8, while the screening of aspirants will hold on June 10.

While stating that publication of claims and objections will be on June 12, he added that screening appeals will be on June 15 and election appeal will take place on June 30.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had earlier fixed November 6, 2021, for the governorship election in the state.

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