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  • Rerun elections: Protect your votes, Wike tells Rivers people 

    Rerun elections: Protect your votes, Wike tells Rivers people 

    Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has urged the people of the state to remain resolute in the protection of their votes during the forthcoming rerun legislative elections.

    Commissioning the phase one of the reconstructed Nkpogu Bridge/Road and Ground Breaking for Phase 2, Governor Wike said that the people of Rivers State insist on free and fair elections.

    He charged the people of the state to vote for PDP candidates during the rerun legislative elections for the sustenance of development in the State.

    The governor said: “There is no need to allow the APC to come back to the state.  If you allow them to come back, they will scuttle development projects for our people.

    “We are children of light. We are in the promisedland and we cannot return to the days of darkness represented by the APC “.

    He added: “We must protect our votes to reclaim our mandate.  This is our opportunity to tell Nigerians once again that this is a PDP state”.

    Commenting on the bridge, Wike said it was started from the very beginning to its completion.

    He said the immediate past government awarded the contract in 2012 but refused to fund the project.

    He said the bridge and road project will improve  traffic  between  LNG and Trans-Amadi areas of  the  town.

    The governor called on  the  people  to cooperate  with the contractor  to execute the phase 2 within the  approved timeline and specifications.

    The programme  was attended  by  the  Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, Former Rivers State Governor, Sir Celestine Omehia,  Former Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Austin Opara and Senator Lee  Maeba.

  • Kogi: Tribunal orders rerun in 14 LGs

    Kogi: Tribunal orders rerun in 14 LGs

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to conduct re-run election in 1, 988 polling units in 14 local government areas of Kogi State on February 20th.

    The Kogi State Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Mallam Haliru Pai disclosed this on Thursday during a stakeholders meeting.

    According to him, the re-run election as ordered by the state election petition tribunal will hold in two senatorial districts of the state, Kogi Central and Kogi East.

    He further disclosed that All Progressives Congress (APC) will not be participating in the Kogi Central and Kogi East senatorial election following the court ruling which barred the two candidates and the APC from contesting.

    He said that the APC will not participate in federal constituency election into Ogoro/Okene federal constituency as a result of court ruling, adding that only the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is eligible for the re-run election.

    On the Kogi State House of Assembly re-run, the REC said the APC and its candidates will not participate in the Ofu and Ankpa 1 re-run, but that the party will participate in Idah, Dekina/Biraidu and Okura re-run.

    He stressed that in Idah, re-run will only take place in one unit, Ogegele ward, unit 003.

    He said about 9,816 ad-hoc staff including youth corpers, security officers and other personnel will be participating in the re-run election.

    He assured the people of the state of a free and fair re-run election, stressing that the reason why re-run election will take place in the 14 local government areas of the state was as a result of non conduct of primary by one of the parties, “which led to litigation.”

  • INEC releases time table for rerun elections in 15 states

    INEC releases time table for rerun elections in 15 states

    The Independent National Electoral Commission Tuesday released the time table for the rerun elections.

    The elections which cut across 15 states of the federation, according to the electoral body will only involve political parties that participated in the last election with their respective candidates.

    The elections are for the electoral issues that terminated at the Appeal Court.

    According to the released time table, constituent election for Gombe will hold on the January 27th, Adamawa, February 13th; Kaduna, Plateau, Niger, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi, Taraba and Imo February 20th.

    That of Abia, Anambra and Bayelsa have been scheduled for March 5th; Akwa Ibom slated for March 12th while Cross River and Rivers scheduled for 19th March.

    The Commission noted in a terse statement signed by its Secretary, Mrs. Augusta Ogakwu that “consequent upon the judgment of the court, the commission will conduct the elections in 69 of the said constituencies with the same political parties and their respective candidates.”

     

     

  • INEC to conduct 78 re-run elections

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to conduct seventy-eight re-run elections this year, it was learnt Thursday.

    A breakdown of the elections indicates that the Commission will conduct 10 Senatorial elections, 12 State Constituency elections and 37 State Assembly elections.

    Others are 17 Federal Constituency elections and 2 Governorship re-run elections, subject to the verdict of the Supreme Court.

    According to the commission’s in house bulletin, the re-run which will take place across the country are based on verdicts issued by the Court of Appeal.

    Most of the court verdicts were given in December 2015 while a few others were ordered in November 2015, and are expected to hold within 90 days or 60 days as ordered by the Appellate Court.
    Meanwhile, INEC has also announced the commencement of Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) ahead of the council elections.

    The exercise according to INEC will commence from Wednesday, 13th January to Sunday, 17th January 2016. The exercise will take place at all the sixty-two (62) Registration Centres/Wards and other approved locations across the FCT.

    According to INEC Daily Bulletin, the exercise is to provide opportunity for those who were unable to register during the last exercise and also those who just turned 18 years.

    “The CVR will begin at the Registration Centre/Wards at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:00 p.m on each of the five-day exercise. The last day for Claims and Objections shall be on Monday, 18th January 2016,” INEC stated.