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The APC will have the largest number of 60 seats in the 10th Senate with the conclusion of the Saturday’s Supplementary Elections across the country. The number has moved from 57 seats before the conduct of the Supplementary elections. The opposition PDP won additional three seats in the Senate to raise their number to 32 […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended indefinitely, Hudu Yunusa Ari, the Resident Electoral Commissioner REC in Adamawan state. His suspension comes after his controversial pronouncement on Sunday of the gubernatorial supplementary election which held in the state. On Monday, the national headquarters of the electoral umpire ordered Ari to stay away from the […]
A 29-year- old candidate of APC, Akarachi Amadi, has won the supplementary election for the Mbaitoli/Ikeduru Federal Constituency in Imo State. The results of the election announced by Prof. Boniface Okoro, the Federal Constituency Returning Officer, indicated that Amadi scored 21, 372 votes to beat his closest rival, Uche Ogbuagu of the Labour Party, who […]
INEC has called on security agencies to provide adequate security for its national officers in Adamawa. Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, made the call in a statement in Abuja on Sunday following reports of maltreatment of some INEC officials in Yola. He said that the commission was disturbed by the […]
The result of the Adamawa State Supplementary election will likely be announced on Tuesday, April 17 when INEC will meet to discuss the contentious result. INEC had suspended the collation on Sunday after the state Resident Electoral Commissioner announced the APC candidate as the winner of the election, even while the collation of results was […]
Senator Dino Melaye has emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the November 11 governorship election in Kogi State. Melaye defeated other aspirants in the keenly contested primary election. The former lawmaker will be up against Usman Ododo, the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the election. It would be recalled […]
Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto, has been declared winner of the Sokoto South senatorial district election. Abubakar Bagudu, the returning officer, who announced the results, said the governor garnered 100,860 votes to win the election. Tambuwal defeated Danbaba Dambuwa, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 95,884 votes to lose his re-election bid […]
Sequel to the announcement of the Governorship election results in Adamawa by the Resident Electoral Commissioner, there seems to be confusion as electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission has distanced itself from the announcement. Hudu Ari, the Resident Electoral Commission (REC), had however earlier declared Senator Aisha Dahiru, aka Binani, as winner of the election […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Nasiru Idris as the winner of the 2023 governorship election in Kebbi State. Idris was declared the winner on Sunday by the Returning Officer for Kebbi State, Yusuf Saidu in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital. Saidu, a professor of Nutritional Biochemistry with […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lined up 200 electoral crime suspects in the 2023 general elections for prosecution. Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, disclosed this at the weekend. He said the commission had already received over 50 case files from the police authorities. “There are over 200 accused […]
