Many folks in several sections of the country and federal government circles became very jittery when the leader/founder of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, at the zenith of his short-lived reign, issued the equivalent of a fatwa against the November 18, 2017 governorship election in Anambra State. The prospects of the…
The leader of Kenya’s opposition coalition, Raila Odinga, has withdrawn from the repeat presidential election ordered by the country’s Supreme Court. Only two candidates were scheduled to compete in the upcoming poll, the other being the incumbent president, Uhuru Kenyatta. A day after Odinga’s withdrawal, the Kenyan High Court ruled in favour of including another…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that the Ekiti and Osun states elections will hold on July 14, 2018 and September 22, 2018 respectively. This was revealed during a press briefing on Thursday at the INEC headquarters in Abuja. The timetable also disclosed that, any run- off election would be held within seven…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said it would deploy no fewer than 6200 card readers for the November 18 poll in Anambra State. It assured the people that the machines would be in perfect condition. The commission’s Director, Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Uzzi, gave the assurance during a voter education providers’ implementation…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the Alliance for Democracy (AD) did not submit necessary forms and details of its candidates for Anambra governorship election before the deadline for submission. INEC Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
With the clearance of 37 candidates for the Anambra State gubernatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, the stage is set for the candidates to put their arsenal at work for the race, Davidson Iriekpen writes All is set for the Anambra State governorship election with the final clearance of 37 candidates for the…
Interim Report on the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) Exercise for the November 2017 Anambra State Election By Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA) [button link=”http://watchingthevote.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Interim-Report-on-the-2017-Anambra-Continuous-Voters-Registration.pdf” type=”big” color=”red” newwindow=”yes”] Download[/button]
#WatchingTheVote team had a successful roundtable discussion with 20 media houses cutting across Radio, Television and Print media in Anambra state. The aim of the discussion is to establish partnership with the media practitioners in the State and to discuss a media plan for effective coverage of Pre-election and election day activities. The media representatives…
The deadline fixed for political parties to submit the names of their candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the November 18 governorship election expired yesterday. The management of the electoral umpire met yesterday to formally receive the list of candidates being submitted by the parties. According to the timetable issued by the…
No fewer than 120 staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday commenced a two-day training on Election Management System (EMS) Implementers workshop ahead of the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State. The staff, made up of electoral field officers and their assistants, are to undergo training on seven key areas of logistics,…