A Federal High Court present in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has rejected a case wanting to disqualify President Muhammadu Buhari from the 2019 elections due to complications over his school certificate. A lawyer, Lezina Amegua, took the matter to court and urged it to force INEC to disqualify the President from the polls but the judge in charge, Justice Ishaq Sani, rejected the case for lacking merit. Lezina wanted the court to present his original school certificate or master sheets of the said result in the court and for INEC to also prove it received the document from the incumbent…
Author: David Folami
Newly re-elected President, Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians that not one part of the country will be left behind as he readies himself for more ears as President of the country. The APC man was announced the winner of the election by the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in the early hours of Wednesday, February 27. Buhari mentioned that he’ll do his possible best to ensure all sections of the giant of Africa will face development under his government. His words, “The new Administration will intensify its efforts in Security, Restructuring the Economy and…
Even as the All Progressives Congress (APC) still retain the believe that President Muhammadu Buhari was going to be named winner of the 2019 Presidential Election, the party has still called its legal team for an emergency meeting on matters concerning the results. The Guardian reports that the legal heads of the APC Presidential Campaign Council met on Wednesday, February 26. A Guardian source also disclosed that the meeting will focus on all things connected to the elections and the legal actions that will most likely trail the announcement of the overall winner. “Members of the Legal Directorate of the…
South South group, PAN Niger Delta Forum has come out to blast the recent violence and deaths during the Presidential and National Assembly polls held days ago, in some parts of Nigeria, most especially Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta State. In a recent statement, they consoled with those that were affected and even mourned with those that lost people to the sad incidents. The statement read, “We sympathise with the families of the victims, who were cut down in the their prime in the orgy of electoral violence, we demand a full scale inquiry into these incidents,” “We note with disappointment…
Ex Delta Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has asked for the scrapping of the Presidential and National Assembly election in Delta state. Emmanuel who was in the running for the Delta South Senatorial District, through APC said the election was the epitome of irregularities. His words, “I wish to state that the election was fraught with a lot of electoral malpractices and ballot stuffing. “It was also crippled with electoral violence in some parts of Burutu, Bomadi, Patani, Warri North and Isoko North Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. “I have already petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on…
Senator George Akume, representing Benue North west district on my body, has failed in his bid to come back to the Senate for the fourth time. But he eventually lost out to Mr. Orker Jev, who is a PDP candidate. The former governor lost in last Saturday’s National Assembly election to People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate and member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Orker Jev. Announcing the result, read out by Prof. Nichodemous Ogbulu, who was the collation officer in charge, PDP emerged the winning party with a total of 157,726 votes. George Akume got 115,422 votes to face…
Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, who is the current Rivers State Governor has said that the state had gone to the International Criminal Court to prosecute the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Jamil Sarhem for his crime. Wike said instead of beating about the bush, Major General Jamil Sarhem should tell people of Nigeria the reason behind the 6 Division stormed Collation Centres in Ikwerre, Emohua and Okrika Local Government Areas with INEC Electoral Officers, insisting that he stole electoral materials and fabricating results. The governor then said the General officer had the bloods of…
President Muhammadu Buhari is set for 4 more years in office as he is presently in front ahead of closest rival, Atiku Abubakar in the ongoing result announcements. The incumbent President is in a strong lead right now according to what INEC has been announcing in Abuja. As at the time of posting this, Buhari has clinched 12,061,230 votes, ensuring the healthy lead against Atiku Abubakar’s 8,592,340 votes. While PMB has emerged victorious in majority of votes in 15 state, Atiku has gotten 13. Muhammmadu Buhari won in Ekiti, Osun, Kwara, Nasarawa, Kogi, Gombe, Yobe, Niger, Jigawa, Kaduna, Bauchi, Lagos,…
The Buhari Media Organisation has come out to say the victory that is about to happen for President Muhammadu Buhari is proof of his remarkable record, his integrity and the love and affection of Nigerian citizens. In a recent statement released by the chairman of the group, Niyi Akinsiju said that Buhari had worked hard for the win going by his remarkable record since 2015. He also said several Nigerians had gained a thing or two from Buhari’s tenure as president from 2015 till this very moment. His words, “The last four years of the Buhari administration were marked with…
INEC recently declared Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Delta State. Seth Jaja, the collation officer in charge revealed the result in Asaba, saying that PDP won in 23 local government areas out of 25 in the state. The result read out disclosed that PDP attracted 594,068 votes across the 25 local government areas, while All Progressives Congress (APC) got 221,292 votes. The LGAs where the opposition party was victorious include Aniocha South, Aniocha North, Oshimili South, Oshimili North, Ika South, Ika North-East, Burutu, Sapele, Ughelli South, Okpe, Warri South, Warri South…
Enugu State Governor, and PDP’S governorship candidate for the March 9 Governorship and House of Assembly Elections, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has resumed his active door-to-door campaign in Obinagu Uwani Akpugo in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state. The governor sought for votes, flaunting the PDP Logo (Umbrella) as he appreciated them for their support and calm conduct during the recent election held in Enugu State. He then begged them to come out of their homes in large numbers on the 9th of March to vote for PDP candidates. As the campaign was coming to an end, the PDP used…
PDP has come out to categorically state that its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar will not accept defeat against President Muhammadu Buhari, and that it had started gathering proof to tackle the results that are being announced by INEC. Reports say Kanu Agabi, former attorney-general of the federation, is currently in charge of a group of lawyers that are set to rubbish the results at the presidential election petitions tribunal of the Federal Court of Appeal, Abuja. According to The Vanguard, A PDP source said, “We are currently collating evidence to challenge the results being announced by INEC. We have been…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has come out to ask INEC to immediately work on plans to conduct new elections in Yobe, Zamfara, and Borno state. During a recent press conference, the Deputy Director General of PPD’s presidential campaign organisation, Tanimu Turaki, said the APC actually manipulated the results that were read out in their favor. He asserted that the results INEC’s presiding officers tendered in Yobe, Zamfara, and Borno state shoud be scrapped and new elections should be carried out because of lots of electtoral atrocities. Tanimu noted the total number of votes as cast which was 775,449 in…
INEC began the announcement of the results of Saturday’s presidential election yesterday, and as now, result in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory are now known. The states that have had their results read out are Ondo, Ekiti, Gombe, Kwara, Kogi, Yobe, Abia, Osun, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Enugu and the Federal Capital Territory. APC’s President Muhammadu Buhari emerged winner in Ekiti, Nasarawa, Yobe, Kwara, Kogi and Gombe, while his main opposition, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, was victorious in Ondo, Abia, Ebonyi and the FCT. However, some announced outcomes by collation officers in states which the national coalition…
Main opposition party of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, PDP has asked INEC to stop the collation of the results currently going on in the country. They have also ordered the electoral body to cancel the results in Borno, Yobe and Zamfara states. Speaking to the press in FCT recently, Deputy Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, who goes by the name, Tanimu Turaki said more than 157, 000 votes the party received but became nowhere to be found must be restored. More to come.
A group named The Pan African Women Project, has described elections in Kano State, both Presidential and National Assembly, as peaceful, free and fair. The group leader, Ms Belinda Maduna revealed this at a press conference in Kano State hours ago. She mentioned that the election was not just free and fair, but also free from violence as eligible voters voted peacefully as everything went smoothly. Her words, “We want to use this opportunity to tell you that the election in Kano was peaceful, free and without intimidation because everybody was calm on the day of the election,“ She also…
PDP in Rivers State has called the arrests and detaining of some of its party members by men of the 6 Division of Nigerian Army “diversionary.” The party’s spokesman, Hon. Darlington Orji, said the Nigerian Army used these arrests to take all attention away from the delibrate killings it performed in some parts of Rivers State during the elections on Saturday. His words, “What the military did is diversionary and laughable. They have left their duties and have taken up those of police. PDP does not need rigging to win election in Rivers State, so we are shocked at their…
PDP Chieftain, Femi Fani-Kayode has begged Atiku Abubakar to organize a parallel government in Nigeria if he loses the Presidential election. In a recent tweet, the politician said Atiku must do everything within his power to reject the result and ask for the release of more legit outcomes. His words, “He must reject the results and give the FG an ultimatum to declare the authentic results, failure of which he will form a Govt.” After the declaration of results from 16 states across Nigeria, President Buhari is firmly in the lead and is set to clinch four more years on…
Some stakeholders have called upon political party leaders in Nigeria to ensure they warn their supporters against excessive celebration after any victory. They also begged the leaders to make sure humble jubilations was the way to go to prevent loss of human lives after the final announcement of the winner of the 2019 presidential election. Daniel Chukwu had this to say, “It is unfortunate to see young people engaging themselves in reckless driving or taking alcohol that could make them go out of their senses in the name of celebration. “I think election victory should be celebrated in a matured…
Officially, Godswill Akpabio, a senator from Akwa Ibom State, has failed in his quest to return to the senate for another term. In a recently announced result by INEC, this afternoon, Mr Akpabio’s opponent, Chris Ekpenyong, was named the winner in Akwa Ibom North-West District. Prof Peter Oban, the returning officer in charge of announcements declared that Godswill Akpabio garnered 83,158 votes while Chris Ekpenyong clinched 118,215 votes. However, the results were not declared in the Akwa Ibom North-West District due to security concerns, and they resorted to safer location to annouce the outcomes of the election. Resident Electoral Commissioner…