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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate as the winner of Sokoto South Senatorial District. Declaring the results of the supplementary elections, the Returning Officer for the Sokoto South Senatorial District, Abubakar Bagudo, said Mr Tambuwal scored 100, […]
Drama ensued yesterday in Adamawa as the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Yunusa Ari, declared the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the supplementary governorship election, Aisha Dahiru, aka Binani, winner of the election, even when he didn’t have the power to do so. Though the collation of results was scheduled to start […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the presidential election petitions tribunal that President-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress won the February 25 election and was validly returned as the winner without needing to get 25 percent of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). INEC stated this in […]
One person has been injured following a heavy shooting currently ongoing as youths invade the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday. It was gathered that the shooting was allegedly done by a security operative attached to Tonye Cole, the gubernatorial candidate of the All […]
Scores of protesters under the aegis of The Natives took to the streets of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday to warn opposition parties and critics calling for an interim government not to truncate the nation’s democracy. They have expressed their support for the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood […]
The European Union will on Tuesday, March 28, hear the complaint of Nigerian-born Netherlands-based environmental-political rights activist, Sunny Ofehe, on the allegedly rigged Delta State governorship election in which he participated as the candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP). Ofehe, in a terse statement on Monday, said that the EU has agreed to […]
The Delta State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State has granted an order for the Labour Party and its Candidate, Kennedy Pela to Inspect the election materials used during the just concluded governorship election in the state. The Labour Party and its candidate had approached the tribunal in petition No:EPT/DL/GOV/02M/2003, seeking an […]
Alex Otti, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has been declared the winner of the governorship poll in Abia state. Otti was declared the winner on Wednesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after the resumption of the collation of results. In total, Otti polled 175,467 to defeat Okey Ahiwe, his closest […]
Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, has travelled to Europe to seek medical care. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, Bola Tinubu fell sick on Saturday after the gubernatorial and state house of assembly elections. Authoritative sources revealed on Wednesday that Tinubu left for Europe on Tuesday night. “He was attended to by local […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has denounced an online report accusing its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu of attempts to violate its guidelines and consequently distort the Governorship election result in Abia State. Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi said the only communication sent to the State Returning Officer was […]
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