Category: Politics

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…

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-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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress has taken an early lead over main challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, in the collated result of the presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission. In the results declared on Monday, Buhari won in Osun, Kogi, Gombe, Ekiti, Nasarawa, Yobe and Kwara states, while Atiku took FCT Abuja, Ondo, Abia and Enugu. More results are still expected. Osun State Total No: Reg Voters: 1,674,729Total No: of Accredited: 732,984Total Votes Cast: 731,882Total Valid Votes: 714,682Rejected Votes: 17200 AAC: 1,022ADC: 1,525ADP: 9,057APC:…

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Following the Presidential election held on Saturday, February 23, 2019 across the federation, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced some results from some States. Released results are listed belwo STATES   APC                         PDP Ekiti        219,231                 154,032 Osun     347,634                 337,377 FCT         152,224                 259,997 Kwara   308,984                 138,184 Nasarawa 289,903            283,847

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Kunle ADELABU The four term member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Kosofe Constituency and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  for the Lagos East Senatorial District, Hon. Sikiru Adebayo Osinowo, has secured the majority votes in Ikorodu. He polled 42, 770 votes to beat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and daughter of former Ayangbure of Ikorodu,  Princess Oyeniran who got 20, 382 votes. Other results declared in Ikorodu for the Senatorial election are A – 79 votes, AAC – 15 votes, ACD – 65…

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