The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in the early hours of Wednesday, declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect. INEC declared Tinubu president-elect after he polled 8,794,726 votes to win the 2023 presidential election, ahead of 17 other candidates. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner […]
The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has filed a suit against LP, ADC and PDP to stop them from halting the ongoing collation of the presidential election results. The election, conducted on Feb. 25 has been a subject of controversy, following the alleged refusal of INEC to upload results to […]
Prof. Charles Adias, the State Collation Officer for Presidential election results in Rivers, has adjourned the collation of results till further notice. Adias told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, that adjournment became imperative in view of alleged threats to his life. The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa, alleged that there were several […]
The Federal Government has advised former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to truncate the ongoing 2023 general elections with his inciting, self-serving and provocative letter on the polls. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the advice in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja. Mohammed said what Obasanjo cunningly framed as an […]
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, has appealed to Lagosians to be calm and eschew violent acts. Tinubu made the appeal, in a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media & Publicity of APC Presidential Campaign Council on Monday in Lagos. He said the outcome of the election in Lagos, […]
The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has upset the Presidential candidate of the ruling APC, Bola Tinubu in Lagos State in the contest by a margin of 9,848 votes. The State Collation Officer of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Adenike Oladiji, announced the results of the election on Monday. Oladiji is […]
The Lagos PDP governorship candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, has raised alarm over an alleged attempt to falsify the results of the Presidential and national assembly elections held on Saturday. Adediran (Jandor) raised the alarm in a press statement issued by his media aide, Gbenga Ogunleye on Monday in Lagos. “Any attempt to change the result […]
Mr Femi Gbajabiamila of the APC has emerged winner of the Surulere-1 Federal Constituency election held on Saturday. Prof. Virgy Oneyene, the INEC Returning Officer for the House of Representatives election in the constituency, declared the results in Surulere at 6.04 p.m on Sunday. According to her, Gbajabiamila polled 19,717 votes to beat his closest […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday, officially opened the 2023 presidential election collation centre in Abuja. The collation centre is at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, set some ground rules for the collation of election results Yakubu advised political parties to only draw their figures from INEC. He […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arrested nine persons for alleged vote buying in Osun, Ondo, Borno, Akwa Ibom and Sokoto States during the general elections. The ICPC Spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, said this in a statement in Abuja on Saturday. Ogugua said the commission arrested four vote buyers in Osun […]