#polling units

#OsunDecides2022: Results trickle in from polling units (LIVE UPDATES)

Voting has ended and counting of ballots has started in many polling units in the Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State. The election is held across the 30 local government areas of the state with 15 political parties jostling for the governorship seat. Voting officially ended at 2.30p.m. but voters who were on the queue before the official time were still allowed to vote. After voting…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says  it would create additional polling units by  the first quarter of next year.

INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye made the announcement on Thursday in Abuja during a dialogue session of the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room.

Okoye said the commission would consult with…

List Of Polling Units Across Kano Where Re-Run Will Be Held

The list of Canceled polling units across Kano that were expected to be re-run so far

Bichi One polling unit due to over voting.

Dawakin Kudu One polling unit due to violence.

Doguwa 8 polling units due to violence, non use of card reader, over voting and manual voting.

Gabasawa 5 polling units due violence, over voting and card reader issues.

Gezawa 1 polling unit due to over voting.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6eSV0p0mP8)

#NigeriaDecides #NigeriaDecides2019 Polling Units Destroyed, Votes Burnt by Thugs in Lagos (Video)

Various reports and videos getting attention on micro blogging, Twitter is showing that there is commotion in various polling units in Lagos state.

A video shared by an eye witness at the polling unit Ago Palace Way, Isolo Lagos shows that voting has been disrupted in the centre and ballot boxes set ablaze by unknown persons.

https://twitter.com/dchommy/status/1099283893260300288

Below is another…

INEC To Relocate Polling Units To Check Vote Buying – REC

Polling booths are henceforth to be position in a way to make it difficult for people to see how voters cast their votes during elections, a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) announced in Awka on Monday.

Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, the REC in charge of Anambra, who made the disclosure in an interview with the NIGERIA NEWSsaid that the measure was to make it impossible for anyone to know who a voter…

Foreign Observers Fault Conduct of Edo Election

International observers, who monitored Edo State governorship election have expressed reservations about the conduct of the election, pointing out that they were denied entry into the central collation centre and that security operatives at the polling units looked the other way while politicians and their agents induced voters with money.

INEC to investigate alleged distribution of fake result sheets in Rivers rerun

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will investigate alleged distribution of fake result sheets in some polling units in Saturday’s legislative re-run elections in Rivers.

The commission’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, made this known in an interview on Monday in Abuja.

Osaze-Uzzi also said that the commission would also investigate…