Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has reacted to the petition filed by Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, at the presidential election petition tribunal. His reaction is contained in a post via his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday. Recall that Obi officially filed a suit on Tuesday at the election petition tribunal challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the president-elect. The former Anambra State governor wants the Court to nullify the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election on the ground of non…
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has again called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to, without further delay, announce its candidate, Barr. Peter Mbah the winner of the Saturday March 18 governorship election in Enugu State. InfoStride News reports that the winner of the Enugu guber polls is yet to be announced following controversies over the results from Nkanu East and Nsukka Local Government Areas. While the Labour Party had written a petition rejecting the Nkanu East result, the PDP is also questioning the result from Nsukka LGA. The INEC national headquarters has since yesterday, Monday, taken charge of…
The election petition tribunal in Oyo State has received no fewer than 20 petitions. The petitions were received following the National Assembly, gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections held across the state. The National Assembly election was held on February 25 this year while the gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections were held on March 18 across the 33 local government areas in the state. The tribunal disclosed it has received 20 petitions from different political parties that participated in the elections. Secretary of the tribunal, Mr Ibrahim Sada, who made these disclosures on Tuesday, said six petitions…
Alex Otti of the Labour Party, LP, is currently leading after collation of results of Saturday’s governorship election from 16 of 17 local government areas of Abia State. InfoStride News had reported the suspension of collation of the gubernatorial election result from Obingwa Local Government Area. INEC cited the attack and invasion of its office in the council area by suspected political thugs as the reason for the suspension. The electoral commission is currently reviewing the governorship election result from Obingwa LGA. However, the result announced by the State Returning Officer, Nnenna Oti, indicated that Otti is leading by a…
Political parties in Enugu State under the auspices of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) have called on the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to direct the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Enugu State, Dr. Chukwuemeka J. Chukwu and the State Returning Officer, Prof. Maduebibisi O. Iwe to as a matter of urgency announce the already collated results of governorship election from the 17 local government areas and declare the winner of the election without further delay. IPAC, which made the call during a press conference in Enugu, on Tuesday, stated that “any action short…
Presidential candidate of the Labor Party, Peter Obi has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accelerate its action and release the governorship results of Abia and Enugu States. Obi who made this known in a statement frowned at the delay in releasing the result. InfoStride News had reported that INEC on Monday suspended the collation of results in Abia and Enugu States because reports from the state called for reviews. Reacting, Obi said although he is aware that INEC is reviewing the collation of the results in Abia and Enugu, the further delay will question the Commission’s intent…
Former federal lawmaker Shehu Sani has condemned the conduct of the governorship election in Kaduna State. According to him, the declaration of Senator Uba Sani, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is far from the will of the people. Uba was declared the winner of the governorship election in the State by INEC’s Returning Officer, Professor Lawal Suleiman Bilbis, on Monday night. He said Sani polled 730,002 votes to defeat his closest rival, Isa Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 719,196 votes. “Kaduna Governorship…
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has officially filed petitions at the presidential election tribunal. Obi filed the petition to challenge the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. The former Anambra State governor lost the presidential election after he came third. Obi trailed Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and winner, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. But, he had faulted the process of the election that led to Tinubu’s emergence as president. He had vowed to challenge the outcome of the election because he was robbed of his victory. However, the spokesman of…
Kenneth Okonkwo, one of the spokespersons for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the February 25 presidential election, has claimed his party unraveled the electoral fraud perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Nkanu East Local Government Area during the Enugu State gubernatorial election. Okonkwo’s claim is contained in a post via his Twitter handle on Monday. Recall that the State’s governorship election was suspended by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday. INEC said the commission would review the collation of results from Nkanu East and Nsukka LGs following a series of…
The incumbent Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the State. The INEC returning officer, Professor Abdulkarim Sabo Mohammed, at the State Collation Centre, declared Mohammed the winner of the election on Monday after polling 525,280 votes. Mohammed won over 13 local government areas out of the 19 LGA results in the State. He defeated the candidate of the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar (rtd), who won in only six local government areas of the State, and…
All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Oyo State, Teslim Folarin, has reacted to a video of him making certain political remarks. The Senator representing Oyo Central lost the March 18 gubernatorial election to Governor Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In a disclaimer on Twitter, Folarin denied blaming President-elect Bola Tinubu and other chieftains for the defeat of the APC. The lawmaker said it was a plot to clog the wheel of his closeness to the former Lagos governor and party co-founder. “My attention has been drawn to a trending 2:04mins video, blaming Mr. President-elect and other…
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has been reelected for a second term in office. Zulum, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared the winner of the gubernatorial election in the state having scored 545,542 votes. He defeated his closest opponent, Mohammed Jajari of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who polled 82,147 votes. The result was declared by the INEC Returning Officer, Jude Rabo, on Monday afternoon.
A suspended Roman Catholic priest and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia has been declared winner of the Saturday governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, through Returning Office Prof Faruq Kuta, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, made the announcement on Monday in Makurdi, the state capital. Alia defeated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate, Titus Uba and Herman Lorwase Hembe of the Labour Party in a tough battle. The Catholic priest polled 473, 933 votes to defeat Titus Uba, his closest opponent who scored 223,913…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Hon Francis Nwifuru, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of the 2023 governorship election in Ebonyi State. Nwifuru, who is the present Speaker State House of Assembly, scored a total vote of 199,131. He is followed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mr Ifeanyichukwuma Odii, who polled 80,191 votes. The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Prof Bernard Odo, came third with 52,189 votes.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday rejected the outcome of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Katsina State, saying it will go to court. The Director General, Atiku-Lado Campaign Council, Dr Mustapha Inuwa, announced the PDP’s decision at a news briefing in Katsina. Recall that Dr Dikko Radda, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, won the governorship poll with 859,892 votes. Radda defeated the PDP candidate, Yakubu Lado-Danmarke, who scored 486,620 votes. However, according to Inuwa, the result didn’t reflect the turnout of voters on Saturday. He said: “There was no election in the state. We want to inform you without…
The 10th Oyo State House of Assembly will be dominated by members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), InfoStride News reports. The state House of Assembly has thirty-two (32) seats. The results obtained by the media on Monday showed that PDP, which is the ruling party in the state, cleared twenty-eight (28) out of the thirty-two seats at the state House of Assembly elections held on Saturday The All Progressives Congress (APC) won in four state constituencies. The list obtained by DAILY POST indicated that fifteen (15) of the elected members are returning while seventeen (17) of them are new…
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Niger State appears to be leading in 13 out of 17 results of local governments released in the governorship election in the state. This is just as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, clinched four LGs based on results announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the Collation Centre in Minna. The Returning Officer, Professor Clement Alawa, Deputy Vice Chancellor University of Abuja gave an update of results at the state Collation Centre in Minna as they arrive from various local government areas of the state. The…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Gov Mai Mala Buni of Yobe as the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Umaru Pate, announced the result in Damaturu on Sunday. Pate said that Buni of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 317,113 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Alhaji Sherif Abdullahi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 124,259 votes. “That Buni Mai Mala of APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner of the election and returned elected,” he said. Pate, also the Vice Chancellor, Federal…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Lagos State, has expressed his gratitude to the people of the State for voting for him. Sanwo-Olu said he was honoured to be re-elected as the Governor of Lagos State, pledging to continue to work tirelessly to deliver a better Lagos for all. He said this in a tweet via his Twitter handle on Monday morning. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on Sunday night declared Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the Lagos gubernatorial election. Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 762,134 to defeat…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the Saturday 18 elections as one of the most challenging elections in the history of the state. The PDP gubernatorial candidate in Jigawa state stated this in a statement via his Facebook page. According to the statement, “We thank Allah for sparing our lives to witness these elections in good health. I want to thank the people for having the resilience and patience to cast their votes and our supporters for their loyalty and dedication to the PDP throughout this trying period. “For the first time, polls in Jigawa State have been dominated…