The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Femi Saheed of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of Saturday’s bye-election for Kosofe constituency 2 of the Lagos State House of Assembly. Prof. Iyinola Oni, INEC Local Government Collation Officer for the bye-election in Kosofe, announced the result at the collation centre in Agidi Comprehensive School, Agbonyi-Ketu on Sunday morning. According to the results, the APC candidate polled 12,494 votes to beat his closest rival, Mr Sikiru Alebiosu of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who got 2,068 votes. Oni also announced that AA got 31, votes, ADC, 90 votes, AAC 97,…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the Bakura State House of Assembly bye-election in Zamfara State inconclusive. Prof. Ibrahim Magawata, the INEC Returning Officer explained that after the collation of result of the votes cast, the two major contenders, APC and PDP scored 16,464 and 18,645 respectively, giving a difference of 2,181, NAN reports. He further said that results from 14 polling units were cancelled due to over voting. “Some polling units scored zero due to ballot box snatching, violence, assault on INEC officials and burning of election materials by thugs. “However, due to the cancellation of the…
Tokunbo Abiru, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Lagos east bye-election, has been declared winner of the December 5 polls. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announced that the APC polled a total of 89, 204 votes. The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Babatunde Gbadamosi, secured 11, 257 votes. The APC candidate won with a wide margin in all the five LGAs in the senatorial district. See results: Shomolu APC: 17,728 PDP: 2,067 Epe APC: 22,213 PDP: 1,826 Ibeju Lekki APC: 16,336 PDP: 937 Ikorodu APC: 19,204 PDP: 3,766 Kosofe…
Tokunbo Mukhail Abiru, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Saturday’s Lagos East election, has stated that the party cannot afford to fail the electorate. Abiru said this in his victory speech on Sunday after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared him winner of the poll. The former Managing Director of Polaris Bank defeated Babatunde Gbadamosi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He commended APC leader, Bola Tinubu; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Chairman of Lagos State APC, Babatunde Balogun; Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC); the State Executive Council (SEC); State Working Committee (SWC), and his campaign council for putting up a…
Electoral materials for the Cross River Northern/Senatorial/State House of Assembly bye-election slated for 5th of December, 2020 have been distributed as early as 7am. TheInfoStride, while monitoring the distribution in Yala observed that the materials were moved to various ward headquarters and units, getting set for the elections. Speaking to our reporter, one Godwin Oko said, “We are ready for the elections, materials have arrived various units and various ward headquarters and they are being distributed. For now, there is no problem, we are set for the election.” For security, he said “As at yesterday, there was heavy presence of…
The G8 group, a faction of the All Progressive Congress (APC) that battled former governor, Abdul Aziz Yari in 2019 over governorship primary election has reunited with the former governor to fight PDP in today’s Bakura Local Government bye-election in Zamfara State. Our correspondent can authoritatively report that former governor Mahmud’s Aliyu Shinkafi and other members of the group were seen campaigning for APC for the bye-election in Bakura. But when contacted, one of the G8 group member, senator Kabiru Marafa said that he was done politically with former governor Abdul Aziz Yari, saying that he had already built his…
Emir of Dass, Alhaji Bilyaminu Usman Othman, on Saturday commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for making proper arrangements for the bye-election ongoing in Dass state constituency. This is even as TheInfoStride observed an impressive voters’ turn out for the election being held to fill the constituency’s vacant seat following the 13th August 2020 murder of the former occupant of the seat, Hon Musa Mante Baraza. Speaking with journalists shortly after casting his vote at the polling unit near his palace, the first-class Emir hailed the early arrival of electoral materials and expressed confidence that the election would be…
Former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima, has said that it is too early for the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, to talk about which region of the country will be given the party’s presidential slot in 2023. Shettima stated that President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other leaders of the APC will resolve the zoning issue in due time. He noted this while speaking during a two-day mid-term retreat held in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Shettima appeared alongside the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, and vowed that the ruling party will not disintegrate over…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate in Saturday’s Lagos East bye-election, Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi, has emerged winner of his Polling Unit in Ikorodu. Gbadamosi polled 22 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr Tokunbo Abiru, of the All Progressives Congress, who polled 12 votes at Polling Unit 14, Ward 1, Ikorodu, NAN reports. The details of the certified results obtained by NAN showed that three votes were void at the Polling Unit. A total of 37 voters were accredited at the Polling Unit. Gbadamosi, shortly after voting at about 10 am, had decried poor turnout of voters at the…
The Federal Government says being a member of #EndSARS protest is not an immunity from being investigated or charged for any offence or breach of the laws. Minister for Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says nobody can stop FG from probing #EndSARS protesters. (FMIC) The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Friday in Lagos at a meeting with Title Editors of Nigeria Newspapers. The minister, who was responding to a question on alleged arrest of some #EndSARS protesters and sponsors, said nobody is above investigation or prosecution. “Being a member of #EndSARS protest does not…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State says 8,553 ad hoc staff have been engaged for Saturday’s Lagos East by-elections. Members of the NYSC as INEC ad-hoc staff at a polling unit in Victoria Island (Pulse) INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Sam Olumekun, made this disclosure at a news conference on Friday in Lagos. Olumekun, who urged all eligible voters to adhere strictly to COVID-19 protocols, said that the ad hoc staff comprised 1,928 Presiding Officers, 6,348 Assistant Presiding Officers and 193 Supervisory Presiding Officers. According to him, the number also includes 84 Registration Area (Ward) Collation Officers, comprising…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has vowed that the Igbos “will have a rethink” if major political parties fail to cede their 2023 presidential ticket to the South-East. They told the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) not to deny the region, their desire to succeed President Muhamamdu Buhari in 2023. Speaking to reporters in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, the Secretary-General, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, warned those plotting against the zone. “It is our turn. Anybody destabilizing any party because of our interest is making a grave mistake”, Nnabuike warned. On Governor David Umahi’s defection to the APC, he…
Former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has said that it is too early to talk about returning to office in 2023. Speculations have been flying about, linking the Bayelsa-born politician to a possible return to the office he left 5 years ago. But the speculations may have to continue as Jonathan could not give a definite position on his rumoured ambition. Speaking briefly with reporters on Friday after attending an event organised by the Commonwealth Community Choir in Abuja, the nation’s capital, Jonathan was asked if he would be joining the presidential race for 2023, and he said, “It is too…
A former member of the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Raymond Emeana has called for a bi-partisan method towards realizing a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023. Emeana said the Igbo presidency project would be realized if leaders of the two leading parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) insist on both parties ceding their presidential tickets to the South East. In a statement he issued on Friday, he stated that both parties are at present afraid because they are not sure if any of them would cede the ticket to the North if…
National leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Bola Tinubu; the pioneer Interim Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande; Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola; and the Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola on Thursday met in a closed-door meeting. They met in Akande country home, Ila Orangun, Osun State. A source told TheInfoStride that the quartet meeting was to strategize on the 2023 presidential ambition of Tinubu which looks likely to be shaking. It was gathered that Chief Bisi Akande, a strong supporter of Tinubu had in November left Presidential Villa with anger after spending hours without seeing the President. Akande…
Joe Nworgu, a former Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has advised politicians to stay away from the body’s January 2021 elections. Nworgu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Awka that article 11 of Ohaneze’s constitution spelt out methods and persons that qualify for President-General and Secretary-General’s positions. The body cedes positions to five South-East states of Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra and Imo as well as Igbo speaking parts of Rivers and Delta. Nworgu insisted that the President-General’s position cannot have a sole candidate. He said the constitution stipulates that at least, three persons from a state…
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has said he deserved accolades for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the governing All Progressive Congress, APC, rather than attacks on his person by leaders of the former ruling party. Governor Umahi insisted that his recent defection to the APC is a strong message that the South East Zone can no longer be taken for a ride, positing that the zone is now ready and willing more than ever to take its destiny by its hands. Umahi who spoke in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday by his Special…
The Lagos State Police Command has ordered restriction of movement between 6am and 6pm on Saturday, December 5, 2020, ahead of the bye-elections into the Lagos East Senatorial and Kosofe 11 Constituency. The State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, made the declaration on Thursday, while deliberating on strategies put in place by the election monitoring officers deployed from the Force Headquarters in Abuja. Odumosu reiterated that there will not be vehicular and pedestrian movement in and out of the affected local government areas during the elections. However, those on election duties, essential services and accredited domestic and foreign election…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, on Friday, sacked Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the Imo North by-election. Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam delivered the judgment less than 24 hours to the bye-election. The Imo North by-election holds on Saturday, December 5, in the 64 wards across the six Local Government Areas. Justice Onyemenam declared Frank Ibezim, the authentic candidate of the ruling party APC ahead of the election. The judge faulted an earlier judgement of the Federal High Court of November 6 which sacked Ibezim. The justice ordered the Independent…
Former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has advised politicians, irrespective of political parties, to put their 2023 political ambition on hold and focus on solutions to security challenges facing Nigeria. Former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. Saraki gave the advice in Abuja on Wednesday, at the inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Reconciliation and Strategic Committee. “It is legitimate for politicians to have ambition (but) this is the time for us to put our ambition on hold,” he said. Saraki, who is the Chairman of the Reconciliation Committee of the PDP, said the pre-occupation of leaders for…