While there has been appreciable improvement in Nigeria’s electoral process in recent years, every election no matter how small usually serve as a litmus test towards what can be described as ‘almighty’ 2019 general elections. As the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), political parties and other election stakeholders continue to prepare for the November 18 Gubernatorial...

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...

While there has been appreciable improvement in Nigeria’s electoral process in recent years, every election no matter how small usually serve as a litmus test towards what can be described as ‘almighty’ 2019 general elections. As the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), political parties and other election stakeholders continue to prepare for the November 18 Gubernatorial...

As part of effort to ensure a credible governorship election in Anambra State on Nov. 18, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), will on Wednesday commence training for different categories of officers that will participate in the poll. The acting Director-General of The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Sa’ad Umar Idris, saidin a statement on Friday...

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,...

Borno State Governor and the Chairman of the committee of All Progressives Congress (APC) which organised the party’s governorship primaries for Anambra State, Kassim Shettima, has said that he can vouch for the integrity of the exercise that led to the victory of Tony Nwoye. The conduct of the APC’s governorship primary election in the...