The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje,has said that Gov. Lucky Ayedatiwa’s victory was a triumph for democracy and the people of the state. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Aiyedatiwa winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo state. A statement...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the success of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Saturday governorship election in Ondo State which returned Gov. Lucky Aiyeditawa. In his reaction to the outcome of the election, the former president said the voters had spoken...
The Nigeria Police Force says it has deployed personnel to forestall any post-election crisis after the Ondo State off-cyle governorship election held on Saturday. Mr Abiodun Alabi, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) made this known while addressing newsmen at the police headquarters in Akure on Sunday after the...
Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa has urged opposition parties to join hands with him and develop the state together. Aiyedatiwa’s call came after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on Sunday declared him the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. NAN reports that Aiyedatiwa polled 366,781...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has resumed collation of results in the Ondo Governorship election after a recess. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has cleared all 18 local government area results announced so far with a strong lead in all. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second....
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 20 local government chairmanship and 236 councillors positions in the council elections held in Ogun on Saturday. The Chairman of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC), Babatunde Osibodu, announced the results on Sunday at the Commission’s headquarters in Abeokuta....
After announcing results from 13 Local Government Areas in the Ondo State governorship election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is going on recess and will resume collation at 5am to call the remaining 5. The All Progressives Congress (APC) is leading in all the 13 local...
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Ondo governorship election Ajayi Agboola Ajayi has scored the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) low in the conduct of the exercise. Agboola who is one of the leading candidates in the election cast his ballot at Polling Unit 004,...
An election monitoring group, The Kimpact Development Initiative (KDI), has said adequate preparation by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) impacted the successful conduct of the governorship election in Ondo State. The Board Chairperson of KDI, Dr. Abiola Afolabi, stated this on Saturday in Akure after the assessment of the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded 93.52% of the results from the Ondo State governorship election to its Result Viewing Portal. Results from 3,684 polling unit out of 3,933 where the election took place have been made available online as of 7:38 pm on Saturday. Though 18...
A Presiding Officer, Miss Angela Oshogwe, at the ongoing governorship election in Ondo State has said that the Bio modal Voter Accreditation System( BVAS) machine could not capture faces of some elderly voters. Oshogwe, manning Poling Unit 19, Ward 11 Olamojuba, Ondo in Ondo West Local Government Area of...
Ondo State Governorship election started on Saturday with heavy security presence consisting of personnel of the police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) observed at strategic points across the state. Armed security personnel were observed at strategic points such as the entrance into...
A political group, Allied Conservative Congress (ACC), has urged players in the Saturday governorship election in Ondo State to be patriotic and do the right thing in the discharge of their electoral duties. ACC’s National Secretary, Lawal Mohammed, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...
In Less than 24 hours to Ondo governorship election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has replaced Olusola Ebiseni with Olorunfemi Festus as the Labour Party (LP) candidate. The commission in an update on its X social media platform, on Friday, said the replacement of Ebiseni with Festus was...
Security has been beefed up at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Okitipupa, Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State ahead Saturday’s governorship election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INEC has also begun the deployment of both regular and adhoc staff to their respective...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- As Ondo State prepares for its off-cycle governorship election, President Bola Tinubu has called on all political stakeholders and the electorate to uphold peace and decorum and fulfil their civic responsibilities without fear before or after the elections. The president made the call in a...
The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, an election observer organisation, has warned electorate in Ondo State against vote trading, saying such act will mortgage the quality of governance. The Co-Convener of the organisation, Mr Franklin Oloniju, stated this at a pre-election news conference on Friday in Akure. Oloniju said...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – As Ondo State governorship election set to tomorrow, Saturday November 16, 2024, the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Oluwatoyin Babalola, has disclosed that everything is in place for a seamless and credible process. Babalola made the disclosure during and interview with some Journalist on Friday...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has reiterated the commission’s readiness to conduct a free and fair Nov. 16 governorship election in Ondo State. Yakubu made this known during his readiness assessment visit to INEC Local Government Area (LGA) offices on Tuesday in the state....