Governor of Oyo State and Oyo South Senatorial District candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Abiola Ajimobi has been defeated in his plans to return to the senate after his tenure as governor ends. In the results of the National Assembly elections for the Senatorial seat as announced by INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Wole Akinsola, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Dr Kola Balogun won with an overall total votes of 105,720, while Ajimobi got 92,218 votes. Senator Adesoji Akanbi got 49,437 in the same election. Oyo South Senatorial District, has areas like Ibarapa East, Ibarapa North, Ibarapa Central,…
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The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress has asked for the instant detention of a Peoples Democratic Party’s chieftain, Alhaji Buba Galadima, over reported plan to release fake presidential results. The Spokesperson for the council, Festus Keyamo, (SAN), in a statement recently, said the PDP was not pleased with how the authentic results being released were favoring Buhari at polling units nationwide. His words, “Our usual sources within the camp of the PDP have informed us that an emergency meeting of the main opposition party has been summoned for today somewhere in Abuja. “Top on the agenda of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has dashed off from his hometown of Daura to Katsina on his way to Abuja after exercising his franchise in the presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday. He exited Daura at 10:am this morning in a presidential helicopter marked NA-541. Reports have it that Buhari was expected to return to Daura by next week so he can also partake in the Governorship and State Assembly elections set to take place on March 9. Emir of Daura, Alhaji Farouk Umar saw the Presidnt off when he was leaving.
The Local Government Collation Officer taking care of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, Dr. Joseph Folorunso, has come out to state that some member of the National Youth Service Corps that took part in elections in the state found it difficult to operate the card readers during the voting exercise. He said elections in some polling units did not go according to plan as some of them failed to operate the smart card reader despite the massive training they were subjected to before the rescheduled election date. His words, “Some of them messed up the elections because they could not…
Atiku Abubakar has spoken against the violence that happened during the Presidential and National Assembly elections days ago, reminding everyone that his ambition to be President is worth no one’s blood. According to Atiku Abubakar, no politician should be pleased when blood is shed for his gain, and that no citizen of the country should lose his or her life for anything that has to do with politics. In a statement released by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, the PDP Presidential candidate said the Nigerians that died will forever be remembered for their sacrifices, noting that the violence we see…
Atiku Abubakar has emerged winner of the presidential election in Ondo State. Ondo State is governed by an APC man, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. In the final results disclosed this morning, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP clinched 275,901 votes to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC who got 241,769 votes. Total accredited voters in the state were 598,586, total votes cast: 586,827, while rejected votes were 30,833 The results can be seen below, Below are the results: Akoko North East AAC 105 AA 407 APC 15,598 PDP 11,641 Akoko North West AAC 113 AA 412 APC 14,158 PDP 13, 950…
A popular observer group, YIAGA AFRICA Watching The Vote, WTV, has come out to say that the Presidential and National Assembly elections that took place two days ago was not better than the one Nigerians experienced in 2015. Revealing its findings on the conduct of the election at a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, the organisation insisted that the elections fell short of their hopes as it was filled with negative events hat was not even experienced in 2015. “Nigeria missed an opportunity to improve the quality of its elections. These were not the elections Nigerians wanted; they were not…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, is still clinging onto a slim victory in the ongoing announcement of results in Adamawa State. Results so far collated from 16 of the state’s 21 local government areas tells us that Mr Abubakar is in front with 22,000 votes. The PDP is currently leading with 317,088 from results so far summed up in Jimeta, close to Yola. President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress has gotten 295,088 votes thus far. Collation was still ongoing as at 9:56 am this morning, This is how the candidates have fared so far: Mubi North…
Everyone that cares about the country stormed the Lagos State Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, collation centre, Yaba, to demand for the announcement of results of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos state. As at 10am on Sunday, the collation centre, was all set for announcement of results as Nigerians waited patiently for the key moment. As at 6pm in the evening, the commission still hadn’t received results from collation officers from several LGAs. Some collations were also seen at the venue, also awaiting the beginning of the exercise. Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Sam Olumekun stepped up to…
APC has described calls from PDP members for INEC to declare Atiku Abubakar as the winner of the Presidential election as “provocative and reckless.” They also accused the opposition party of several atrocities planned before election including trying to hack into INEC’s software. They did this in a recently released press statement. The statement read, “The PDP in that press statement, recklessly calls on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to arbitrarily name its candidate, Alh. Atiku Abubakar the winner of the presidential election. “This call is shameful and alarming. Unwilling to wait for INEC the constituted legal authority to…
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, is presently leading with the presidential election results in Oyo state. The election happened in every of the 33 local government areas in the state. Atiku, in the results of the 10 local government areas announced thus far by the Independent National Electoral Commission, is currently winning in a whopping nine of them. The results prove that the PDP candidate clinched a total of 85, 109 votes while President Muhammadu Buhari of APC secured a total of 79,802 votes. Atiku emerged victorious in Afijio, Saki East, Kajola, Ibarapa North, Ibarapa…
The Peoples Democratic Party has come out to say that only results already delivered at the polling units for its Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, will not be rejected by its members and supporters across the country. This is because the party alleged that the Presidency “has been mounting pressure on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and dispatching officials to change results in Rivers, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Kogi, Bauchi, Cross River, Borno, Yobe and Edo states among others, in a frenzy to allocate fictitious figures for President Muhammadu Buhari.” Kola Ologbondiyan said, “Presidency is also threatening the South-East state governors to…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to be free from interference in the performance of their duties. Kola Ologbondiyan was also adamant that PDP would never accept any other result except the one that is declared and collated from the polling units. Their statement read, “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) insists on the winning results already delivered at the polling units for the candidate of the people, Atiku Abubakar, and cautioned that Nigerians will not accept any figures except what was declared and collated from the polling units. The party says it’s…
INEC has revealed Official results for four of the nine local governments in Oyo South Senatorial District and senatorial candidate of the ruling APC in the state, Abiola Ajimobi, did not emerge victorious in all four announced thus far. Mr Ajimobi, the current governor of Oyo State, plans to return to the Senate to occupy a seat he held before his governorship role. The PDP’s Kola Balogun was the winner in all four local governments announced so far. In Ibadan Northwest local government, APC had 8,916 votes, while PDP scored 12,144 votes. In Ibarapa North and Ibarapa East local governments,…
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has emerged victorious at the polling unit of Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State. It was a very close one, as Atiku prevailed over President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with just five votes. APC clinched a total of 439 votes, while PDP attracted 444 votes. Tambuwal was an APC member until last year when ported to PDP.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday has said the commission was working on ensuring the quick collation of results and declaration of winners for Feb. 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the promise earlier today. He mentioned that INEC met on Saturday night to ascertain the challenges arising from the conduct of the Saturday Presidential and National Assembly elections. Yakubu also said even with INEC’s best efforts to boost the functionality of the Smart Card Readers (SCRs), it experienced technical hitches in some locations. His words, “Through the deployment of 8,809 Area Technical Support…
President Muhammadu Buhari has recorded a remarkable win over his closest rival Atiku Abubakar in the presidential poll in results of 10 of the 44 local governments in Kano state declared so far by INEC. President Buhari defeated Atiku in the Madobi local council, where Kwankwaso is from. Buhari scored 26,110 votes, while Atiku got 13,113 votes as revealed by the presidential collation officer in Kano, Prof Magaji Gambo, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Gusau. Results for the Presidential election in 10 local government councils in Kano State so far, Local Government 1) Garun Malam APC – 23, 810…
All Progressives Congress House of Representative candidate for Egbeda/Ona Ara federal constituency, Akin Alabi, is very hopeful that he’ll win his election. Recently, he went on social to tweet this, “Thank you Egbeda/Ona Ara federal constituency for believing in me. Thank you to my great party, APC for giving me the platform,” “Thank you to everyone that wished me well and those that didn’t. Abuja Loading.” The Nairabet chairman, 4 years ago, contested for the Egbeda-Ona Ara seat of the House of Representatives’ election under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but lost out.
Presidential candidate of Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu has blasted the violence and deaths during Nigeria’s presidential and National Assembly elections. Ballot snatching, killings and other forms of violence were reported in some polling units during Nigeria’s general election that commenced on Saturday, February 23. Moghalu said the death and violence reports were a terrible way of paying back citizens’ for their patriotism. His words, “My heartfelt sympathy goes to those who lost their loved ones that only came out to perform their civic duty. Also, those who were maimed, those who were not given the opportunity to vote…
An Ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission whose services was being utilized for Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina have been reportedly abducted. Yazid Abdullahi got kidnapped at Runka B, Garin Magaji polling unit, 011, in Safana when he was on the way to the Registration Area, RA. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State, Jibril Zarewa confirmed this news. The Commissioner who spoke via the Electoral Officer, Safana Local government area, Sabiu Abdulkadir said the kidnappers took just him (Abdullahi) away, and did not touch election materials. State’s Commissioner of…