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Monday, 25 February 2019 05:09

Buhari, Atiku in tight race as INEC opens collation centre

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Sunday performed the last step in the conduct of 2019 presidential election by opening National Collation Centre for the collation and announcement of results. Chairman of INEC and Chief Returning Officer, Mr Mahmood Yakubu, who performed the brief ceremony held at International Conference Centre in Abuja, however, adjourned sitting for the collation and announcement of presidential results till 11am today (Monday) after setting the ground rules. Earlier during an updated press briefing, Yakubu said Ekiti State was the first state to have completed the collation of the results of presidential election and is expected…

Monday, 25 February 2019 05:08

APC, PDP in war of words

All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party were last night locked in a war of words as anxiety rose among political actors over the results. Noting returns from the polls, PDP’s presidential candidate Mr Atiku Abubakar in a statement yesterday called for vigilance from supporters saying that he was confident of being declared winner. “With strong shares of vote in South- South, South- East as well as an increased share in South-West and North-Central, we are very pleased with the progress PDP has made,” Abubakar’s spokesman, Mr Phrank Shaibu said in a statement early yesterday. The statement said with PDP’s…

Monday, 25 February 2019 05:07

Saraki defeated in Kwara

Senate President Bukola Saraki lost in his bid to return to Senate in Saturday’s National Assembly elections in Karate Central Senatorial District. Mr Saraki, who contested on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, lost to Mr Ibrahim Oloriegbe of All Progressives Congress. The Senate President lost all four of the local governments in his senatorial district. The local governments, which include Asa, Ilorin East, Ilorin West and Ilorin South, were all won by Oloriegbe. Declaring result of the elections in the district, returning officer, Mr Olawole Obiyemi, a professor of human kinetics education at the University of Ilorin, said Saraki…

Monday, 25 February 2019 05:06

Dogara wins in Bauchi

Speaker of House of Representatives has been declared winner of Tafawa Balewa/Bogoro Federal Constituency election in Bauchi State. Mr Dogara, candidate of PDP, scored 73,609 votes to defeat APC candidate, Mr Dalhatu Kantana, who scored 50,078. He was declared winner by returning officer for the constituency few minutes past 10 p.m. on Sunday. PT

Monday, 25 February 2019 05:05

Gombe gov loses senatorial bid

Governor of Gombe State, Mr Ibrahim Dankwambo, has lost his bid for the Senate seat of Gombe North Senatorial District. He lost to All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Mr Sa’idu Alkali, in Saturday’s National Assembly election. Announcing the result at Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the collation centre in Malam Sidi of Kwami Local Government Area of the state, Returning Officer, Mr Umar Gurama from Federal Unversity Kashere, said Alkali polled 152,546 votes. Dankwambo polled 88016 votes during Saturday National Assembly elections at Gombe North Senatorial district in the state. Also, APC’s House of Representative candidate, Yaya Tongo, won Kwami,…

Monday, 25 February 2019 05:04

NBA reports disenfranchisement, manipulation during elections

Nigerian Bar Association has released its first report based on the organisation’s observation of Saturday’s general election. In a statement signed by Mr Afam Osigwe, the association’s chairman of Election Working Group (EWG), NBA noted that failure of card readers and other technical hitches affected the elections. The committee lamented what it described as an excessive deployment of voting materials in some polling units ”and an under-deployment of the material, ballot papers witnessed in other polling units”. According to the association, EWG was established to observe three key areas, namely the level of compliance by stakeholders in the voting process,…

Sunday, 24 February 2019 04:45

Buhari, Atiku in neck-to-neck as violence mars polls

President Muhammadu Buhari has won in his unit in Daura, Katsina State, in presidential and National Assembly elections held throughout the country on Saturday. Though the elections were marred by violence in some states including Lagos, Rivers, and Anambra, voter turnout was impressive in most polling units, while it was rather low in others where voting took place. Mr Buhari, who voted at Polling Unit 003 in Sarkin Yara A Ward, Kofa Baru by Gidan Niyam, defeated candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Atiku Abubakar. Buhari, who is presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, polled 523 votes to defeat Accord…

Sunday, 24 February 2019 04:42

I’ll congratulate myself - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday morning reaffirmed his confidence in winning the presidential election. Mr Buhari told reporters shortly after voting at Kofar Baru, Sarkin Yara “A” ward in Daura, his home town, that he would win the election and congratulate himself. Clad in a light blue ‘Babariga’, the president was accompanied by his wife, Aisha, and some security details. Mrs Buhari was the first to vote before the president at 8.06 a.m., while the president voted at 8.10 a.m. “So far, so good. Nigerians understand and are behaving themselves,’’ Buhari said when asked to give his assessment of the…

Sunday, 24 February 2019 04:40

I’ll accept result if poll is credible - Atiku

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Atiku Abubakar, voted in his Ajiya Ward polling unit in Jimeta, Yola, yesterday with a pledge to accept result of the presidential election even if he loses, provided the poll is credibly conducted. Abubakar said as a democrat he has no problem with accepting poll results. “I am a true democrat unlike others. So far so good,” he said. The former Vice President who had a brief chat with the media after casting his vote at Unit 012 in Ajiya Ward near one of his houses at Old GRA, Jimeta, reiterated that…

Sunday, 24 February 2019 04:39

APC raises alarm over alleged PDP’s planned violence

PRESS RELEASE It has come to our knowledge from insiders within PDP Campaign Council who are making last-minute efforts to switch allegiance to President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress that PDP is currently recruiting armed thugs and miscreants nationwide to attack ward and local government collation centres this evening till the wee hours of tomorrow (Sunday) morning. The purpose is to disrupt the collation process of the elections nationwide in order to cause crises and make this election inconclusive. As we know, most of these collation centres are usually in schools or other places that are poorly protected. This…

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Sunday, 24 February 2019 04:37

PDP reacts to APC’s allegation of ‘planned violence’

PRESS RELEASE Our attention has drawn to a low-quality diatribe from the APC as contained in a statement to the effect that PDP plans to unleash armed thugs to disrupt the collation process is rank hypocrisy to disguise their own vile acts. Tonight the APC has raised the spectre of the PDP ‘recruiting armed thugs to attack ward and LGS collation centres’ overnight. Let us put this statement into perspective: Who introduced INEC and the Card Reader and PVC system to create a more transparent electoral process? The PDP. Who in 2015 when holding all the levers of power ran…

Saturday, 23 February 2019 02:40

After false start, Nigerians focus on economy in tight presidential vote

President Muhammadu Buhari’s hold on power faces a strong challenge today in a delayed election that hinges on the fate of the economy, Africa’s biggest. The presidential vote in the continent’s top oil producer and most populous nation is too close to call between Buhari and the main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar, a businessman and former vice president who leads a field of more than 70 challengers. The election, due to be held a week ago, was postponed around five hours before polling stations were set to open and there are concerns that the delay may hurt turnout. The electoral…

Saturday, 23 February 2019 02:38

No genuine PVC, no voting – INEC

Anyone who does not possess a valid permanent voters card (PVC), or whose PVC is not authenticated by a card reader and ‘biometrics taken’ will not be allowed to vote today, chairman of the electoral commission, INEC, Mr Mahmood Yakubu, said on Friday. Yakubu said this while briefing journalists and local and international observers in Abuja about his agency’s preparedness for today’s presidential and parliamentary elections. “No genuine PVC, no voting,” Yakubu said. Yakubu also explained that while voters can go to polling units with their phones, they will not be allowed to take such phones to the polling booth,…

Saturday, 23 February 2019 02:37

PDP sues Buhari over ballot snatchers

Peoples Democratic Party has sued President Muhammadu Buhari over his directive to security agencies to deal ruthlessly with ballot box snatchers during the general elections. “I really gave the military and police order to be ruthless,” Buhari had said on Monday. “Anybody who thinks he has enough influence in his locality to lead a body of thugs to snatch ballot boxes or disturbs the voting system, will do so at the expense of his own life.” In a suit filed before Federal High Court in Abuja, PDP asked the court to declare the directive as unconstitutional, unlawful and void. The…

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