Politics

INEC alleges illegal registration centre in Kwara, where people use CorelDraw to alter scanned PVCs

Daily Dispatch March 16, 2018

The Independent National Electoral Commission says it has uncovered an illegal voter registration centre in Offa, Kwara State. INEC Administrative Secretary in Kwara, Mr. Paul Atser, made this known in a statement in Ilorin on Friday. “It has come to the notice of Independent National Electoral

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Court of appeal orders continuation of Dino Melaye’s recall

Daily Dispatch March 16, 2018

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has thrown out an application by Senator Dino Melaye seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from initiating the process of his recall. An Abuja Federal High Court had in September, 2017 given the electoral umpire the go-ahead to begin Melaye’s recall process. Justice Mohammed Mustapha-led two […]

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Electoral Act: Don’t obey any overriding of President Buhari’s veto- Sagay tells INEC

Daily Dispatch March 16, 2018

Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN has criticised the National Assembly for reordering the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, election sequence. The constitutional lawyer insisted that what the law says on the matter is clear.  He noted that it is only INEC that had been empowered to organize and fix […]

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800 APC members defects to PDP in Kwara

Daily Dispatch March 16, 2018

The political atmosphere is charged in Kwara State as no fewer than 800 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mr  Iyiola Oyedepo, the  Chairman of the PDP  in the state, received the defectors in Ilorin on Friday during the visit of  executive members of […]

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Two million Nigerians joins us every day-SDP

Daily Dispatch March 16, 2018

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has said that opposition political parties were on the move to join the party in order to unseat the ruling APC in 2019 election. The party also claimed that about 2 million Nigerians joins its fold daily to combat the ruling party for deceiving Nigerians. Former National Secretary of the […]

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Jega blames leaders of the country for the erosion of national core values

Daily Dispatch March 16, 2018

A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said that leadership is the major problem of Nigeria. Jega at a leadership summit organised by Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, on Thursday in Abuja blamed leaders of the country for the erosion of […]