Security has been heightened around the Bayelsa office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, venue of the collation of results of the Saturday governorship poll.

Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC have arrived at the result collation centre for the just concluded governorship election in Bayelsa State.

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has congratulated his Imo State counterpart and the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Governor Hope Uzodinma, on his victory at Saturday’s governorship election in the state, saying his re-election is well deserved.

Security has been heightened around the Bayelsa office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, venue of the collation of results of the Saturday governorship poll.

The road leading to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Bayelsa State was Sunday morning besieged by protesters over alleged doctored results from Nembe-Bassambiri in Nembe Local Government Area of the state.

Says Policemen were Courageous, Approachable and Professional. By: Kingsley Omonobi – Abuja The Police Service Commission Staff Monitors deployed to the nine Senatorial districts of Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states have said that Policemen on election duty were courageous and fairly contained intermittent cases of attempts to hijack the elections. A statement by spokesman of […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to go ahead and collate the results of Saturday’s governorship election in Brass, rather than bowing to pressure by the State Governor, Douye Diri, to move the collation to the Bayelsa state capital, Yenagoa.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hope Uzodimma, winner of last Saturday’s governorship election.

The INEC Returning Officer for Imo State, Prof Abayomi Fashina, announced Uzodimma as the winner.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “to promptly establish a joint, credible, transparent, effective, and broad-based investigation into allegations of electoral bribery and violence in the off-cycle governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states.”