Tag: Polls
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Elections: Indians head to polls with 968 million eligible voters
World’s most populous nation indian will be heading to polls with about 968 million registered voters set to cast their ballots over the course of 47 days. The election has been tagged world’s biggest election by Western media. Voting in India’s six-week election commenced on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Hindu nationalist…
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2023 Cross River Election: APC member shot dead
A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been shot dead in Cross River State. It was gathered that the incident happened on Saturday morning at Ogoja in the northern senatorial district. The victim, who was simply identified as Joe, was allegedly shot dead by a soldier for creating a rowdy scene in a…
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Court orders INEC to paste, transmit Saturday’s poll results electronically
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to electronically transmit Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly’s election results in accordance with its regulations and guidelines. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment, also ordered the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS)
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LP candidate, Onyeizu describes INEC’s declaration of Abaribe as winner as “worst form of travesty”
Chinedu Onyeizu, the Labour Party (LP) Candidate for Abia South Senatorial District in the just-concluded February 25 National Assembly elections, has described the declaration of Enyinnaya Abaribe as the winner of Abia South Senatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as “worst form of travesty”. He called on the commission to conduct rerun…
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Tinubu’s team agreed poll was rigged – Atiku
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has stated that the president- elect, Bola Tinubu’s campaign team has already agreed they rigged last Saturday’s presidential election in the country. Atiku made it known that he was seeking the cancellation of Saturday’s presidential election because Tinubu’s campaign team admitted the poll was rigged.
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“Vast majority of Ad Hoc staff employed by the INEC were vulnerable”-AfBA
The African Bar Association, AfBA, has stressed that the vast majority of Ad Hoc staff employed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were vulnerable and ill-trained to handle the pressure of an election of this year’s magnitude. AfBA further asserted that the commission was ill-prepared for the 2023 General Elections, as monumental as it…
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Why ANAP/NoI 2023 election polls equate witchcraft predictions – By Magnus Onyibe
To drive home the impact and import of an election polling exercise in our local Nigerian environment,l would like to implore readers to allow me use the allegory in the famous English literature book:Macbeth written by William Shakespeare which is a fable set in Elizabethan Age England (about 4 centuries ago) to illustrate the mindset…
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2023: Of polls, projections and partisanship – By Chidi Amuta
Nigerians are a very impatient people. Our hunger for instant outcomes should have made us the nation that invented the microwave oven. But our impatience is directed at other ends. We can at least content ourselves with the many unusual things that we have reinvented and perfected our instincts in, namely, politics and religion.
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Elon Musk hints at stepping down as Twitter CEO
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk has hinted on stepping down as the chief Executive officer of the micro-blogging company after less than two months of acquiring the app. The billionaire owner, Musk asked tweeps to vote a yes/no on whether he should remain the CEO of the micro-blogging site or not, promising to…
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Anambra poll: I was given a car, N50,000 to thumbprint for Soludo – Man reveals
Ebonyi State police command arrested one Anthony Onuoha over alleged car theft on Thursday, confessing to having worked for Prof. Charles Soludo to rig last year’s Anambra governorship election Onuoha, who was paraded alongside other suspects, alleged that they