Ahead of the march 18, governorship and state House of Assembly elections, a Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice Obiorah Egwuatu has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow two eligible Nigerians with Temporary Voter Cards to cast votes in the elections. Justice Egwuatu predicated the order on the basis that the plaintiffs were duly registered and captured in INEC’s database. According to report, the judgment was on a suit...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reached a decision to postpone Saturday’s governorship and state Assembly elections to March 18, 2023, According to a report from the Commission, the postponement is due to the commission’s inability to promptly commence reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used during the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections to enable their use in the state elections. It would be recalled that INEC was earlier...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been granted its request by the Court of Appeal in Abuja to allow it reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation (BVAS) machines used during the February 25, presidential and National Assembly elections. The appellate court had upon two separate ex parte applications on March 3, granted leave to presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party to inspect the election materials used by...