By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Hon. Pogu Lawan of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has emerged winner of the By-election for the Chibok LGC State Constituency in Borno State He scored a total 9,101 votes and was returned elected. He was followed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP...
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BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Despite the heavy security presence and vote buying that characterised the just concluded re-run elections, electorates in Sokoto State seem to have made their preferences known as indicated in results declared by the various Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Returning Officers. The results...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The battle of supremacy between the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been settled through the ballot box on Saturday. Announcing the results for the re-run election in Akamkpa /Biase Federal Constituency and Yala/ Obudu State...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Mr Yakubu Adamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Saturday’s rerun election into the Birninkudu/Buji Federal Constituency seat. The Appeal Court had, in November 2023, declared the March 18, 2023 Birninkudu/Buji Federal Constituency election inconclusive and...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Prof. Anthony Ani, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s Ebonyi South Senatorial by-election in the state. Ani won with 46,270 votes, defeating his closest rival, Ifeanyi Eleje of APGA who garnered 3,513. Silas Onu of the PDP polled 2,783 votes and...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mustapha Sadauki of People Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the Shinkafi State Assembly election held on Saturday. Its Returning Officer for the exercise, Prof. Rufus, while announcing the result on Sunday, said that Sadaelectionuki defeated Usman Shinkafi of the All...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Guma I State Constituency in Benue, Mr Terwase Uche, has been declared winner of the rerun election by Returning Officer, Prof Julius Ikya. Ikya declared Uche as the winner of the rerun election on Saturday in Daudu, the constituency’s headquarters....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rescheduled elections in 16 polling units in Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency of Plateau because of missing ballot papers. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Plateau, Dr Oliver Agundu, said in a statement on Saturday night that the election has been rescheduled...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mr Fuad Laguda, winner of the Surulere Federal Constituency I by-election in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Laguda had in the build up to the election, said he...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Despite heavy security presence, the rerun election in Sokoto State has been described as a vote for cash by electorates, as they queued up in large numbers in Shagari and Yabo local government areas of the state to collect their own. While on...
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the Ebonyi South Senatorial District rerun, Mr Ifeanyi Eleje, has described the election as “hugely flawed”. Eleje, who made the assertion on Saturday at Afikpo while speaking to newsmen, further described the process as “marred with intimidation”. “This is the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have arrested 3 persons suspected to be vote buyers in Sokoto State during the bye-elections monitoring exercise. The Commission in a statement on Saturday via it X handle, said 3 males...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Commission (INEC) has suspended the ongoing re-run elections in 20 polling units in specific constituencies in Enugu, Akwa-Ibom and Kano states. The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Sam Olumekun, who disclosed this in a statement on...
Voting was disrupted on Saturday in the Akoko North-East and Akoko North-West Federal Constituency by-election at Unit 5, Ward 13 in Oyinmo, Ikare-Akoko, when suspected political thugs snatched the ballot box. Eyewitnesses told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the attack by the hoodlums caused panic with...
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of barring its polling agents from Saturday’s Ebonyi South by-election. Chief Nwaeze Onu, a chieftain of the party said this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. “We...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced investigation into the reported cases of disruption in the ongoing re-run and by-elections in Akwa-Ibom, Enugu and Kano states . INEC disclosed this on Saturday in an update through its verified X (formerly Twitter) handle on...
Some communities on Saturday, employed services of town criers to mobilise voters for Saturday’s by-election in Surulere 1 Federal Constituency of Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents monitoring the election, observed town criers in different areas jingling bells or iron plates to sensitise the voters...
APC Candidate in the ongoing Surulere Federal Constituency I by-election in Lagos State, Mr Fuad Laguda, says he is waiting to be congratulated as the winner. Laguda expressed this confidence while addressing newsmen shortly after casting his vote at Randle Primary School on Saturday. The candidate, who cast...
There is heavy presence of security operatives and men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the Saki West State Constituency where INEC is conducting a rerun election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the rerun election is holding at polling unit 007 Odo...
Heavy security presence at the Model Primary School, Uruagu Ward 3, for the re-run of Nnewi South/South Ikwusigo Federal Constituency election of Anambra as voters turnout en mass. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday reports that the security agencies include the Nigeria Army, Police and operatives...