Tag: Elections

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said he would support the right of prisoners to vote during the 2023 general election. Represented by his technical adviser on Corrections, Michael Anugwa, the minister disclosed this while speaking on the sidelines of the planning meeting of the Pollrite 23 project in Abuja. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Aregbesola said, “This is so because the enabling laws do not remove the right to vote from inmates because they are inmates. “There are certain freedoms that they are denied but voting is not one of them. So, the inmates’ right to vote must be encouraged by all and sundry.” The agency had earlier reported that the Pollrite 23 project is aimed at facilitating civic engagement among communities with low voters’ turno...

The Council of Igbo Elders has said Ndigbo are not desperate for the presidency to warrant the outburst of Chief Raymond Dokpesi that if an Igbo man becomes president of Nigeria he will divide the country. The former Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party had through a statement on Monday alluded that Nigerians feared a president of Igbo extraction would allow the country’s breakup, citing separatist agitation by Indigenous People of Biafra in the South East. Dokpesi had said, “If nobody has told Ohanaeze Ndigbo before, the concern today from some other regions is that if Nnamdi Kanu plays the role of Aguiyi Ironsi in leading a militant revolt against constitutional government in the South-East under Igbo presidency, the president will be ...

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, has said the Igbo should be given a chance at leadership in 2023 as the South-East wants to work for the peace and unity of Nigeria. The governor said the Igbo would be a part of a fair and equitable Nigeria, not a breakaway Biafra. Umahi announced this during an inter-denominational prayer summit organised in Abakaliki on Friday by the Office of the Wife of the governor, in conjunction with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). “We want to belong to Nigeria. We want to belong to fair and equitable Nigeria,” Mr Umahi chimed. People should not be afraid of us. We will work with God to restore the peace of this nation. We will work with the people for the love and unity of this country. Read also: South-East Govs, Elite Can’t Decide...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that it has cancelled 62,698 voters card requests in Anambra State for double or multiple registrations. Chairman of the Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made this known in his remarks during an emergency meeting of political parties in Abuja on Friday. The discovery of double or multiple registrants was made during the process of cleaning up the registration data for the Anambra elections. He said, “In Anambra State, a total of 138,802 citizens completed the registration, including applications for transfer and requests for replacement of lost, damaged or defaced PVCs as required by law. However, in the process of cleaning up the registration data, we discovered that many previously registered persons re-registered afres...

The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Jare Ajayi, while reacting to the position of northern governors, said equity and fairness demand that Presidency should come to the South in 2023. Speaking in an interview with our correspondent on Monday, the group’s spokesman expressed surprise at the position of the governors saying some northern governors had said before that power should come to the South in 2023 The Afenifere spokesman said, “This new position by the governors indicated that the issue of forging unity in the country is only on their lips and not in their hearts. It is true that zoning is not in the 1999 Constitution. So are many other things that are done politically in form of convention. “For example, it is not in the constitution that in a state with adheren...