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...
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The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has alleged plans by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to compromise the Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and disrupt the governorship and State Assembly elections in Enugu. But the PDP responded by saying the allegation is “the crying of a drowning man”. The APGA...
Mrs. Helen Mbakwe, a candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), said she lost the Senatorial election due to the blurred logo of the party. Mbakwe, who contested for the Anambra Central Senatorial seat, attributed her inability to secure the seat to none identification of the party’s logo...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared PDP candidates – Mr Benson Agadaga, Sen. Seriake Dickson and Mr Benson Kombowei, the winners of Saturday’s senatorial election in Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Dickson is a serving lawmaker, Agadaga is a former Chief of Staff...
. Six States of the Federation have dragged the Federal Government before the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the last February 25, 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The plaintiffs in the originating summons marked: SC/CV/354/2023, are specifically asking for an order of the apex court “directing a wholistic...
Lagos PDP Candidates in the just-concluded National Assembly Election on Thursday called on INEC to audit and review all collated results with Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the Lagos West and Lagos Central Senatorial Districts. Addressing a news conference in Lagos, the candidates jointly pointed out that they...
The Ohaneze Ndigbo in Lagos has declared support for the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, come March 11. The President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, High Chief Sunday Ossai, made the declaration on Thursday in Ikeja, during a Joint news briefing by the Lagos State Leaders of Thoughts...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says March 11’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections will hold as scheduled. The commission gave the assurance in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in Abuja on...
It is fundamental to state at this outset that there is no presidential election yet conducted in 2023 and that this is one moment when one would wish he were not a Nigerian. INEC started the process and there was voting but the collation of the results veered off...
Mothers United and Mobilised (MUM), a coalition of Nigerian mothers from all walks of life, has called on the nation’s electoral umpire to remedy lapses observed during Saturday’s polls. It urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to do so ahead of the March 11 Governorship and House of...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A group, Northern Youth Forum, has condemned the call by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should cancel the Presidential elections over alleged infractions and irregularities. The forum described the call as an attempt to cause crises in the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kebbi on Thursday rejected the Kebbi Central senatorial district result on the Feb. 25 election, insisting that it would institute a legal action to retrieve the mandate. INEC on Tuesday declared Sen. Adamu Aliero of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner...
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Mr Obika Chinedu, candidate of Labour Party(LP) has won the House of Representatives election in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT) Abuja. Prof. Ukertor Gabriel, Collation and Returning Officer for Bwari/AMAC Federal Constituency, made the announcement on Tuesday in Abuja. Gabriel said, Chinedu, representing Bwari/Abuja Municipal Area Council(AMAC), polled 201, 308...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu winner of Feb. 25 presidential election. Tinubu, who was former Governor of Lagos State, garnered a total votes of 8,794,726 to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the...
The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party to call for the cancellation of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. The party made this call in a press briefing on Friday, saying that a new election should be...
Leaders in the West African sub-region have called on Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 on the collation of results for the presidential and National Assembly elections held on February 25, 2023. Mahama and other members...
The flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is in the lead in Nigeria’s keenly contested presidential election with official results coming in from 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. According to results presented by state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs)...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mrs Ireti Kingibe of the Labour Party (LP) as the winner of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)Senate seat. INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Sanni Saka of the University of Abuja announced the result on Tuesday in Abuja. Saka said that Ireti scored...
The Vice Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa, and Labour Party (LP), Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, have called for the cancellation of Saturday’s presidential election. Baba-Ahmed and Okowa, at a joint press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, called on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to...