The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has lost a former commissioner for women affairs, Alhaja Ahmed Nike Taibat, to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Alhaja Ahmed Nike who served under the previous administration of Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed was one of the political stakeholders of the PDP in Offa Local Government Area. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the PDP in Offa LGA, Honourable Jide Jatto, the former commissioner tendered her resignation from the party with immediate effect. This comes as the state prepares for the gubernatorial and state assembly elections March 11. PDP…
Author: Prince Ade ADe
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has lost his senatorial bid to the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the district, Okechukwu Ezea. Mr Ugwuanyi, who is rounding off his second term as governor, is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Enugu North Senatorial District election held on Saturday 25 February. The Returning Officer for the election, Chukwuemeka Ubaka, announced the result at the collation centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Nsukka Local Government Area headquarters on Monday at about 5: 20 a.m. Mr Ezea, the LP candidate, polled a total of 104,492 votes to defeat…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has lost his bid to represent the Benue North West Senatorial District in the National Assembly. Ortom, who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the election lost to Mr. Titus Zam of the All Progressives Congress, APC. In the result announced by the Senatorial Collation Officer, Prof. Rufus Shaa’to in Makurdi, the APC candidate polled a total of 143,151 votes to defeat Ortom, who garnered 106,882 votes, while the Labour Party, LP, candidate Mr. Mark Gbillah scored 51,950 votes.
A former chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye on Monday caused a stir at the National Collation Centre when he rejected the presidential election result declared for Ekiti State, alleging over-voting. The drama started before the beginning of collation when Melaye, who is also the agent ofs the Peoples Democratic Party, raised an observation that the figures of results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission for Ekiti State does not correlate. INEC had declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, winner for Ekiti State with 201,494 defeating his closest…
A former chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye, on Monday, rejected the presidential election result declared for Ekiti State. Melaye, who is also an agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, raised an observation that the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission for Ekiti State do not correlate and called for the results presented at the polling units to be displayed on the INEC website for comparison with the results presented by the State’s Collation Officers. INEC had declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, winner of Ekiti State…
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, has defeated his counterpart from the All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu in President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state, Katsina after polling the highest number of votes from the 34 LGA in the state. Atiku polled 489,045 votes to beat his closest contender, Tinubu who scored 482,283. The NNPP Presidential Candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso came third with 69,385 votes followed by Peter Obi of the Labour Party with 6,376 votes.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Labour party candidate, Thaddeus Attah, the winner of the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives. According to Prof Funmilayo Odukoya, who is the INEC Returning Officer, Attah polled a total of 24,075 votes to defeat his main rival, entertainer, Olubankole Wellington aka Banky W of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who gathered 18,666 votes, and Mr Babjide Obanikoro of the APC, who had 16, 901 votes.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has hailed his constituents in the Surulere 1 Federal Constituency of Lagos State for electing him for the 6th term. Gbajabiamila emerged victorious during the presidential and National Assembly elections that took place on Saturday. He polled 19,717 votes and defeated his closest opponent, Bosun Jeje of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 5,121 votes. Speaker Gbajabiamila said he remained grateful to the people of Surulere 1 for giving him the sixth term mandate, noting that he would not disappoint them. The speaker according to a statement from his office…
The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has won Lagos State, the strongest hold of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The result has been announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at Lagos Collation Centre declared that Peter Obi won Lagos State. Peter Obi had 582454, Bola Ahmed Tinubu had 572606; Peter Obi wins Tinubu with 9,848 votes.
Sen. Godswill Akpabio of the All Progressives Congress was named the winner of the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission early on Monday. The former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs was declared the winner early on today, according to a statement from Akpabio Chief Press Secretary Mr. Jackson Udom. The statement further stated that the collation officer, Professor Anthony Udoh, while declaring Akpabio as the winner of the contest said, he “satisfied all conditions to be declared the winner having polled 115,401 valid votes to defeat his closest rival of the People’s Democratic party, Barr…