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...

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 the electoral umpire from reconfiguring the BVAS would adversely affect the forthcoming governorship and State Assembly elections. It dismissed objections by the Labour...