Mr Yakubu said that over the next six months, INEC would engage in electoral activities that required security deployment.
Mr Yakubu noted that non-conduct of by-election in Zamfara State was due to a pending legal issue.
According to the INEC chairman,110 associations are seeking to be registered as political parties as at June 23.
The meeting followed a letter to INEC by the PDP inviting the commission to its 100th NEC meeting scheduled for June 30.
This came weeks after coalition members held a meeting in Abuja as part of moves to challenge Mr Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.
Independent National Electoral Commission staff have been accused of refusing to receive service of Form 48 on behalf of their chairman, Mahmood Yakubu.
Mr Yakubu said the primaries for the Ekiti election will be held between October 20 and November 10, 2025.
The feature in a democracy that allows a president-elect or governor-elect to be sworn into office despite unresolved court challenges would overstretch logic anywhere.
Mr Yakubu said INEC’s collaboration with EFCC on vote-buying had also yielded similar results in Lagos, Kwara, and Gombe States.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has advised the members of civil society organisations to focus their advocacy on cases of “delegates-buying” during the primaries of political
