#BBB NEWS| INEC Announces Re-Deployment Of Administrative Secretaries And Election Dates [PHOTO]

The Independent National Election Commission (INEC) announced a “routine re-deployment” of nine administrative secretaries on January 29th.

The statement, signed by the INEC Secretary Augusta Ogakwu, said that the affected secretaries are to conclude their handover exercises by February 3rd.

A public notice, also signed by Mrs. Ogakwu on February 1st, 2016, announced the approved dates to conduct elections as ordered by the Court of Appeal. The forthcoming electoral exercises will be held on: February 13th (Adamawa State), February 20th (Kaduna, Plateau, Niger, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi, Taraba, Imo States), March 4th (Abia, Anambra, Bayelsa States), March 12th (Akwa Ibom, Cross River States), March 19th (Rivers State).

The new posts for the Administrative Secretaries and the INEC election documents can be found below:

#BBB NEWS| Kano INEC Commissioner, Family Burnt To Death

News just reaching Daily Independent has it that the Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Abdullahi Minkaila is dead together with members of his family. They were all burnt to death.

Minkaila was burnt to death along with his wife and two children, in an inferno which engulfed his residence on Thursday evening.

Eyewitness accounts has it that Minkaila and his family were rushed to the Murtala Mohammed specialist hospital where they eventually gave up the ghost on Friday morning.

#BBB NEWS| No Election Rigging Took Place In The Southeast - Jega

Professor Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has denied claims that rigging or vote manipulation took place in Nigeria's Southeast or Jigawa State, claiming that INEC has not received any reports about any such events.

The INEC chairman confirmed that an INEC office in heated Rivers State was “torched”, mentioning that the Commission was investigating. The claims of INEC staff being substituted by untrained personnel at polling places were being investigated as well, according to the chairman.

“I have no information whatsoever about military interfering or working for a political party,” he announced, replying to reporters who asked about Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha’s claims of military interference in the state. Further, the chairman denied reports of military intervention in collation centers in the Southeast. He urged reporters to press the Imo State governor for more information.