The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has given politicians in Taraba seven days to remove all campaign billboards and posters or face prosecution. Mr Austin Okojie, the state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, gave the directive at a stakeholders’ meeting on Saturday in Jalingo. Okojie warned against pasting of campaign posters now, stressing that it was contrary to the Electoral Act. "The commission has [...]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved the registration of a new party, the Unity Party of Nigeria (UNP). Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC's director of voter education and publicity revealed this in Abuja on Friday, saying the commission approved the registration of the party during a meeting held on Thursday April 17, 2014. "The commission, at its meeting, approved the registration of [...]
INEC has distributed 1, 108,495 permanent voter cards (PVCs) to people who registered in 2011 in Ekiti and Osun. A statement issued by Mr Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC chairman, on Thursday in Abuja said the distributed cards were from 1,913,825 cards printed for the two states. It said the commission had also conducted Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for [...]
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