Category: Election 2019

Ikorodu Monarch Dissatisfied With Number of Registered Voters In Lagos, Ikorodu

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Kunle ADELABU -Says No To Electoral Violence The Permanent Vice Chairman, Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs and the paramount ruler of Ikorodu Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Oba Kabir Adewale Shotobi,  Ayangbure of Ikorodu,  has expressed his displeasure at the number of registered voters in his domain and Lagos State in general. Oba Shotobi expressed his dissatisfaction at the 6 million and about 340,000 voters that registered for the 2019 General Elections in Lagos State and Ikorodu Local Government respectively while receiving Monitors of the Nigeria Election Violence Report…

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Tinubu Woos Igbo Voters In Lagos for APC

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National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday appealed to Igbo in Lagos State to vote the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February and March elections. Tinubu made the appeal in Ikeja while addressing party faithful at a stakeholders meeting. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was called to perfect the party’s preparedness for the rescheduled elections on Feb. 23 and March 9 in the state. The party leader said the APC government never discriminates against people…

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Polls: We Are Good to Go, INEC Chair Assures Nigerians

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it is ready to conduct the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday, having completed 100 per cent reconfiguration of the Smart Card Readers (SCRs). This Day reports that the Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this while addressing a press conference Wednesday to update the people on the preparedness of the commission. According to him, “We have achieved 100 per cent configuration of the Smart Cards Readers. At this point we are good to go. Full deployment…

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2019 General Elections: Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai’s Full Speech To Army Commanders At The AHQ Conference Room, Abuja, Wednesday, February 20, 2019

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Protocol You are all welcome to this expanded weekly meeting which has in attendance, not only Principal Staff Officers and Directors, but also GOCs and selected field commanders. You will all recall that just 2 weeks ago, we all met here for an Operations Conference that was held to strategize on the NA’s roles during the 2019 General Elections, which was earlier planned to commence from 16 Feb 19. Unfortunately, the election did not hold as planned and has been postponed to hold on 23 Feb 19 and 9 Mar…

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2019 Elections : Voters State Implications of Presidential, National Assembly’s Elections Postponement

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Kunle ADELABU Following the postponement of the President and National Assembly from Saturday 16 to Saturday 23, 2019, some voters have examined the implications of the development on the polity. Those that contributed to the post-postponement discussion on THE IMPACT WhatsApp platform adduced many likely effects that the development may cause among which are heightening of Nigerians distrust for the electoral process, apathy, untoward hardship on political parties and candidates and economic and social loss to Nigerians whose businesses and social activities were grounded by the elections among others. Some…

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Elections Postponement: Ikorodu Electorate React

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Kunle ADELABU Electorate in Ikorodu division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, have joined thousands of others across the country in reacting to the postponement of the 2019 General Elections on the eve of the initially scheduled date by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with mixed feelings. While some were of the opinion that the electoral umpire postponed the elections based on good reasons, others said the body has was no tangible justification for its action while some others were of the opinion that INEC was not ready to conduct…

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No More Campaigns, Collection of PVCs – INEC

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The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the disclosure while fielding questions at the commission’s meeting with stakeholders, on Saturday in Abuja. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says there is no more room for political campaign or collection of the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in spite of the postponement of elections dates by one week. Yakubu said that the deadline for the collection of PVCs and elections campaign by political parties according to election timetable has passed. “Campaign closed on Thursday, Feb. 14, and for the period that…

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Elections: Atiku Urges Nigerians To Be Patient

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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged Nigerians to be patient over decision to shift elections by one week.   PM NEWS reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) gave logistic reasons for shifting all the elections by one week.   Presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday Feb. 16 were shifted to Feb. 23, while state elections also scheduled for March 2 were also moved to March 9.   In a statement he issued on Saturday in Yola, Abubakar urged Nigerians…

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