Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Concerns Mount over Governors’ Moves to Rig Saturday’s Elections By All Means With 48 hours to the Governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections, concerns have heightened over alleged moves by governors to rig the elections by all means possible, including resorting to extra-judicial means to compromise the process. ADVERTISEMENT Aside allegedly recruiting thugs to help them disrupt the process to garner more votes, THISDAY findings have revealed that one of the means through which the governors intend to rig the exercise is by working with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in their respective states. In addition to this is another alleged plan to further compromise the electoral officers, thus making the falsification of results much easier than it was in the previous exercise. ADVERTISEMENT But if these moves were t

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM INEC Postpones March 11 Governorship Election, Fixes March 18 as New Date Campaigns will continue until midnight of Thursday 16 March 2023, which is 24 hours before the new date for the election. ADVERTISEMENT The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has shifted the conduct of the governorship and houses of assembly elections to March 18. The elections were initially fixed to hold on March 11 across 24 states. ADVERTISEMENT On Wednesday, the court of appeal refused an application by Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to restrain INEC from reconfiguring the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections. ADVERTISEMENT INEC, in a statement late Wednesday signed by Festus Okoye, INEC national commissioner and chairman, informati

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Nigeria elections: Peter Obi group sues INEC over voter registration halt The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has sued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its “failure to comply with the constitutional provisions that require the Commission to continue voter registration until at least 90 days” before elections. ADVERTISEMENT In Suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/1342/2022 filed by Ikechukwu Ezechukwu, SAN & Co., the Plaintiffs argue that INEC’s abrupt termination of the voter registration exercise would disenfranchise millions of eligible voters during the 2023 presidential election. ADVERTISEMENT The suit before the Federal High Court Abuja seeks an order compelling INEC to reverse its earlier directive halting the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise across the country on July 31, 2022, and declaring as ultra vires, the deci