The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Umar Bago of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Niger. Prof. Clement Alawa, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) Academics, University of Abuja, the INEC Returning Officer, announced the results of the election on Monday in Minna....
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Nollywood star, Olusola Elliot, and Songodara Mosunmola, the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winners of Surulere 1 and 2 State Constituency election in Lagos State. The Returning Officer for Surulere Constituency 1, Dr John Fenuga from the...
Labour Party’s Governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has lost his polling unit. Rhodes-Vivour lost to incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu after the results from his polling unit were counted. According to the Punch report, Labour Party got 18 votes while Governor Sanwo-Olu polled a total of 29 votes...
Dr Ifeanyichukwu Odii, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ebonyi governorship candidate says he will triumph over the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in Saturday’s poll, in spite of the endorsement of Anyim Pius Anyim. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Anyim, a former PDP presidential aspirant on...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun, Ladi Adebutu, has accused All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state of planning to rig Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections with thugs. Adebutu made the allegation while addressing hundreds of PDP supporters at a mega rally in Abeokuta...
Mr Faliya Sharon, a public affairs analyst, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to support the aspiration of incumbent Deputy Speaker, Rep. Ahmed Wase, to emerge Speaker of the 10th Assembly. In a statement on Sunday, Sharon said that the APC should as...
Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau has expressed confidence that the All Progressives Congress (APC) party will win in the Governorship and State Assembly elections in the state. The governor stated this on Tuesday in Jos, while addressing newsmen at the end of his inspection of some ongoing projects in...
Despite threats received for prophesying the outcomes of Nigeria’s election, a Zimbabwean prophet Passion Java, has dropped a second prophesy on president-elect Bola Tinubu. Java, on Sunday, prophesied that he had seen the results of the election. The Zimbabwean who is the founder of the Kingdom Embassy church, is...
President Muhammadu Buhari has affirmed that Saturday’s presidential election, in which former Governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu emerged as the winner, was flawed. Present Buhari, however, charged Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), to challenge the outcome of...
Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Taraba governorship primaries rerun. Retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chairman of the electoral committee announced the results in Jalingo on Friday. Buratai said that Bwacha scored 778 votes to emerge winner, while Sen. Yusuf Yusuf came second...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has described as victory for the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Supreme Court Judgement affirming him as Yobe APC Senatorial candidate. He stated this while briefing news men on Monday, in Abuja, after the judgment was delivered by Justice Centus Nweze of the apex...
A Former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has urged Nigerians to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu in the Feb. 25 presidential election. Buratai, who was the immediate past Ambassador of Nigeria to the Republic of Benin, made the...
Fr. Hyacinth Alia has been declared the winner of the rerun primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue having polled 410,682 votes. Chairman, Rescheduled Election Committee, Sen. Basheer Lado, announced Alia as winner in Makurdi on Thursday. Lado said the first runner-up was Dr Matthias Byuan...
Stakeholders and the people of Enugu East Senatorial Zone in Enugu State have adopted Dr Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP (PDP) as their preferred governorship candidate ahead of the March 11 gubernatorial elections. They openly ditched the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), All Progressives Congress (APC),...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the scheduled Bola Ahmed Tinubu/Shetima presidential campaign rally will hold in Ilorin on Jan. 17. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Mohammed Salman, the State Secretary of the party, in Ilorin on Monday. “I hereby confirm from the Leader of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo have disagreed over Gov. Hope Uzodimma’s scorecard within three years in office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Uzodimma assumed office on Jan. 14, 2020, following a judgment of the Supreme Court...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja on Friday, upheld the nomination of Shehu Umar as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Bauchi South Senatorial District in the Feb. 25 election. A three-member panel of judges, in two separate judgments, set aside the Nov. 21, 2022 judgment by...
Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North), has urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters in Sokoto State to go and collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). Wamakko, the APC leader in the state, made the call on Thursday shortly after returning to Sokoto from an official engagement outside the state....
The second term bid of Gov. AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is now causing disquietness among the leadership of National Association of Kwara State Students (NAKSS). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the association had been engulfed in leadership...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Wednesday, adjourned a suit filed by Mr Akanimo Udofia, a factional governorship candidate of Akwa Ibom All Progressives Congress (APC), until Jan. 23 pending an Appeal Court decision in a similar matter. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that since the...