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After the Saturday presidential and national assembly election with the results announced, the United Nations (UN) asked aggrieved candidates and their parties to take it up legally in line with the constitution. The UN spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, speaking with NAN in New York said Nigeria has a strong history of peaceful transition of power. […]
Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, says renewed hope has dawned in Nigeria with his election. Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who had 6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), secured 6,101,533. In his acceptance speech delivered after he was declared winner of […]
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has reacted to a viral video claiming that some of its officers have arrested a criminal syndicate engaging in electoral fraud in the federal capital territory (FCT). On Tuesday, a video showing some persons arrested with some items like the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) machines of the Independent […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect. Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was declared the president-elect after the 70-year-old polled 8,794,726 votes to win the 2023 presidential election. The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner at the […]
Due to the Electoral Act of 2022 not being adhered to during the collation of the 2023 presidential election, the Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party chairmen stated that Prof. Yakubu Mahmood should resign his position as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The parties during a live press conference also […]
The Federal Government has issued a stern warning to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, asking him not to truncate the 2023 general elections with his “inciting, self-serving and provocative” letter on the elections. Obasanjo had on Monday worried over the conduct of the 2023 presidential election, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of […]
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has won the presidential election in Bayelsa State. Atiku won Peter Obi of the Labour Party and the All Progressive Congress candidate Bola Tinubu. Atiku won in five out of the eight local government areas with 68,818; Obi secured 50,076, while Tinubu polled 42,572 […]
The external observers of the 2023 election such as the International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute (NDI) Joint Election Observation Mission (IEOM) have presented their preliminary statements on the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria. The leader and former President of Malawi, Dr Joyce Banda, on Monday in Abuja congratulated the people […]
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has won the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu in his home state, Lagos. This was based on the collation of results at the Independent National Electoral Commission Lagos State collation centre in Yaba. Out of the 20 local governments of […]
The Niger Delta Commission has condemned the presidential election stating that it was the worst election in Nigeria’s democratic history. In a statement made available on Monday, the NDC revealed that the despite the hope of millions of Nigerians who voted in the election, the Buhari-led administration failed to conduct a free and fair […]
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