Category: Politics

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship Candidate in Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday held an interactive session with traders and Igbo community in the Computer Village. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the interactive session was to offer a hand of fellowship and foster unity among the leadership of the village. Sanwo-Olu while addressing the traders, said that it was the responsibility of government to provide power and internet for a technological hub, especially the biggest in West Africa which is the Computer village. According to…

Read More

Wale JAGUN President Muhammadu Buhari was on Wednesday declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), winner of the presidential election held on Saturday, February 23, 2019 . He won his re-election bid with 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party in the presidential poll that polled 11,262,978 votes. The Returning Officer for the 2019 Presidential election and the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the declaration early Wednesday. The INEC Chairman declaring Buhari as the winner stated: “That Muhammadu Buhari, having…

Read More

-11 seats yet to be declared, three inconclusive WITH 61 seats won by its candidates at last Saturday’s National Assembly election, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to maintain dominance in the Ninth Senate. The number will give the APC numerical strength in the Red Chamber. It will also enjoy a simple majority. It will, however, not afford the APC the luxury of a two-third majority in the upper chamber. The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won 33 of the seats announced as at the close of…

Read More

As Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crumbled in the presidential election, the party petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, asking for a halt of the national collation of results. The party wanted the collation to wait until data from the smart card reader accreditation at the polling units are made available to all the parties in the election. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the party said INEC should release the data immediately, in line with INEC’s avowed commitment to a transparent,…

Read More

The Independent National Electoral Commission is set to announce President Muhammadu Buhari president-elect, following the collation of results of the 23 February election. INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu will make the announcement at 3am on Wednesday. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that at the end of collation on Tuesday night, President Buhari crossed the 15 million mark in votes scored in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. He polled 15,191,847 votes, winning in 19 of the states, after the result of Rivers was added. His main challenger Atiku Abubakar…

Read More

Official results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja shows that the APC candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari has taken the lead in the 2019 race for the Presidency of the country. A total of 73 presidential candidates are participating in the election which began on Saturday. Collation Officers from 11 states and the FCT have so far submitted their results to INEC as at the early hours of Tuesday. Here is a summary of the result so far: Collation Officers from the remaining 25 states are still…

Read More