The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mr Idris Salman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as winner of the election for Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency in Kogi. The Returning Officer, Dr Adams Baba, announced the results in Kabba on Monday. INEC had on Feb. 26, declared the result...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the Court of Appeal to vary the ex parte order made in favour of Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), with regards to inspection of materials used for the presidential election. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that...
Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says she is convinced that the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu will address the Bakassi resettlement problem when he assume office in May 29. Ita-Giwa said this on Monday in Calabar while celebrating the victory of the president-elect. Popularly...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Borno State, Alhaji Mohammed Ali Jajari has denied the rumour making the round in the state, that he has step down for the All Progressive Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, Babagana Zulum. Alhaji Jajari, who disclosed this...
By MARK JANG, Jos – The Spokesperson of ‘Generation Next Campaign Council’, Mr Shittu Bamayi, says no governorship candidate in Plateau can match the credentials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Dr Nentawe Yilwatda. Bamayi in statement on Monday in Jos, said that Yilwatda’s pedigree, intellect, exposure and...
A former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Moses Ayom, has appealed to Benue residents to replicate the victory recorded by the party in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on March 11. Ayom made the call while inaugurating the Independent Campaign Council...
Nigeria’s much anticipated 2023 presidential election has yielded an outcome, leaving behind a thick smoke trail of disquiet and global infamy. Mr. Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has since been announced the winner of the February 25 election. At home, the emotions are unevenly mixed...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubkar, for making false claims about the Feb. 25 presidential poll. Okechukwu in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said Atiku’s desperation and crass opportunism led to PDP’s defeat at...
Mr Ade Omole, the Director of Diaspora Directorate, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), has called on opposition political leaders to embrace Sen. Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president-elect. He made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Omole urged...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Ahead of the governorship elections on March 11, 2023, Students Leadership Forum, National Association of Cross River State Students, NACRISS World Wide and the National Association of Nigerian students NANS and other students bodies in the state have endorsed the governorship candidate of the...
Sen. Grace Bent has appealed to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his Labour Party counterpart Mr Peter Obi to accept their defeat in the Feb. 25 presidential election in good faith. Bent, who represented Adamawa South at the National Assembly stated this in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers has released winners of the National Assembly election conducted on Feb. 25 in Rivers. INEC announced the results in a statement issued to newsmen by the commission’s Public Affairs Officer, Mrs Geraldine Ekelemu, in Port Harcourt on Saturday. The commission announced...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency in last Saturday’s election, Barrister Kefas Magaji, has rejected the result which announced the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ja’afar Leko as winner of the election. Magaji, a former Special...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit seeking the removal of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Bello Matawalle, from the Zamfara governorship election. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the case of the plaintiffs lacked merit. The News Agency of Nigeria...
The governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has blamed those he referred to as inherited Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the All Progressives Congress (APC) for ‘misleading’ President Muhammadu Buhari on the naira redesign policy. The Supreme Court on Friday ordered that old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it plans to challenge its defeat in Benue in the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly Elections. Mr Isaac Mffo, the state acting PDP chairman said this when he addressed a news conference on Friday in Makurdi. “We have mandated our legal department...
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says there is no law making it mandatory for INEC to transmit electoral results electronically. Mr Dele Alake, Special Adviser on Media and Communications at the PCC made the declaration in Abuja on Friday when he spoke at...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Senator representing Nasarawa South Senatorial Zone at the National Assembly, Senator Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has debunked rumour making the rounds that he is working against the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state. The Senator, in statement said the “The fake news is coming...
The Court of Appeal on Friday granted leave to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, to inspect documents used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the Feb. 25 Presidential election. The permission was sequel to...
Rev. Fr. Joseph Shinga, Chairman Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Gombe State Chapter, has dismissed a letter trending on social media that Christians in Gombe would not vote for incumbent APC Gov. Alhaji Inuwa Yahaya in the March 11 Governorship Election. Shinga stated this while addressing news men in...