The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Governor Douye Diri, has been declared winner of the Nov. 11 election. Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof. Kuta Farouk, who is the Returning Officer of the election, announced the result on Monday in Yenagoa....
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With winners already declared in the November 11, 2023 governorship elections in Kogi and Imo states, all eyes are on Bayelsa State as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) plans to announce the final results of the poll today (Monday). Results from six of the eight local...
Aare Atunluse Omoluwabi Oodua Worldwide, Chief Muritala Audu, on Monday expressed confidence that residents of Kogi would benefit from the visionary leadership of the state’s Gov. Elect, Alhaji Usman Ododo. Audu, a Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in a statement in Lagos said that Ododo’s...
The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Usman Ododo, has won Saturday’s off cycle Governorship Election in Kogi. Ododo polled 446,237 votes to beat his closest rival, Alhaji Muritala Yakubu-Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), who scored 259,052 votes in the keenly contested election. The...
The Labour Party in Imo has dissociated itself from the result of the Nov 11 Governorship Election in Imo, as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Party’s Chairman, Mr Callistus Ihejiagwa, said this while reacting to the outcome of the election in an interaction with...
With election results of 18 of the 21 local government areas in Kogi State collated, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the November 11, 2023 Governorship Election in the state, Murtala Ajaka; as well as his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Usman Ododo, are in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to protect the popular will of Kogi electorate in Saturday ‘s governorship election. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, said this in a statement on Sunday...
The Governorship Candidate of the LP in Imo, Sen. Athan Achonu, has rejected the result of Saturday’s election, saying he will seek redress in Court. Achonu said this on Sunday, while addressing newsmen in his Umulomo country home in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state. He...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday, declared Gov. Hope Uzodimma of the APC the winner of Imo governorship election. Declaring the result of the Saturday’s off-circle election, the State Returning Officer, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, said that Uzodimma polled 540,308 votes to defeat 17 other candidates. Fasina,...
Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 27 local government results announced in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Imo State Collation of results at the State Collation Centre started around 02:30am on Sunday in Owerri, the state capital, with the Vice...
Residents have attributed the massive turnout of voters in Kogi Central for Saturday’s governorship election on the love for Gov. Yahaya Bello and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Alhaji Usman Ododo. Some of those interviewed by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the zone expressed happiness...
Voting in the ongoing governorship election has commenced after about three hours delay in Okpoama Ward, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa. Okpoama Ward Polling Unit-4 has 17 polling centres and is the electoral ward of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva. The...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has commended INEC and security operatives for their conduct at Saturday’s off-cycle governorship election in the state. Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election, Alhaji Usman Ododo, gave similar commendation. Bello spoke after voting at his polling unit in Okene...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has reiterated President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to the overall development of the Niger Delta and other parts of the country. Mr Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, said this in a statement on...
Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi, Alhaji Usman Ododo, on Wednesday called on security agencies to release chieftains of the party, recently arrested in Kogi East. The candidate, who made the call, told newsmen in Lokoja, that the APC chieftains arrested were noble people...
Special Adviser to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Youths and Students Affairs, Dr Jibril Ahmadu, has expressed optimism that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win Saturday’s governorship poll. Ahmadu disclosed this in an interview with the New Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on phone on Thursday. He...
No fewer than 18 political parties taking part in Saturday’s Governorship poll in Imo have signed a peace accord to eschew violence before, during and after the exercise. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the peace accord was facilitated by the National Peace Committee (NPC). In...
Since the return of democracy in 1999, several elections have been conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), though not without reservations, hues and cries by political actors, analysts and watchers. Of utmost concern to most Nigerians is the fact that every election since then has been...
All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday called on the massive security operatives drafted to Kogi for the Nov. 11 election to be fair to all political actors in the state. The party’s Spokesperson/Director, Media and Publicity, Kingsley Fanwo, made the call in a statement issued in Lokoja on...
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday nullified the participation of the PDP and its Senatorial candidate in the Feb.25 National Assembly Election, Napoleon Bali for the Plateau South Senatorial District of Plateau State on grounds of refusal to carry out the order of Court.Pdp The Appellate Court in...