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INEC clarifies role on division, revision, adjustment of electoral constituencies On Kindly Share This Story: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says revision of electoral constituencies/adjustment of their boundaries are joint responsibilities of the commission and the National Assembly. The commission made the clarification in a statement by Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Friday. Okoye said that the clarification became necessary following recent media reports regarding the commission’s re...

Ahead of the 2023 general election, the House of Representatives has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ...

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, 12 northern states are demanding for 3,323 additional Polling Units (PUs) as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) begins the process of creating new PUs in an attempt to expand Nigerians access to elections.

Vanguard News INEC intensifies consultation on new Polling Units On Emma Ujah The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has intensified consultations with stakeholders on the creation of new Polling Units (Pus), across the country. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, who held a meeting with the media in Abuja, yesterday, said that existing 119, 973 PUs, created 25 years ago had become grossly inadequate, leading to crisis situations during elections. He said, “Nigeria has a critical problem of voter access to Polling Units. The country currently has 119,973 Polling Units...

Give INEC exclusive power to declare winners not courts, Osunbor tells NASS On By Udo Ibuot FORMER governor of Edo State, Senator Oserheimen Osunbor, has advised the National Assembly to ensure that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was adequately empowered to solely declare winners of elections and not the courts. Osunbor in a memo he sent to both legislative chambers of the constitution review committees, advocated that to truly make the electoral body independent, courts should not award victory to a winner except INEC. He said: “The 1999 Constitution in its Third Sch...