The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Cross River state, Sen. Bassey Otu has been declared the winner of the governorship election held last Saturday. The Returning Officer, Prof. Teddy Charles Adias declared Sen. Bassey Otu the winner at exactly 3:56 pm on Monday. Otu who was declared the winner of the election polled 258, 619 votes to defeat Sen. Sandy Onor of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP who scored 179,636. The governor-elect, Sen. Bassey Otu of the APC won 15 Local government areas out of the 18 LGAs while Prof. Sandy Onor won the remaining…
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APC Accuses Gov Fintiri of Intimidating Adamawa Guber CollationThe All Progressives Congress (APC) has pointed a finger at the incumbent governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, for trying to intimidate his opponent, Senator Aishatu Binani, by using thugs to disrupt final collation of the governorship election in the state. The National Publicity Secretary of APC, Morka Felix, in a statement released on Monday, accused the governor of Adamawa state of destroying the results sheet at the collation centre. He added that, Fintiri already knows he’s loosing, hence his intimidation and use of thuggery to cause havoc in the state.…
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has congratulated Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Sen Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) and Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos on their re-election success. With Rivers Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Siminialayi Fubara, also certain of succeeding Wike in the results coming out, the governor in a Tuesday statement by his Media Aide, Kelvin Ebiri, said, “I am excited by the cheering news of the resounding re-election of governors Makinde, Mohammed and Sanwo-Olu. “I am pleased to express to Your Excellencies the most sincere fraternal congratulations. I look forward to us consolidating the bonds of brotherhood and…
The Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly and governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, has been declared winner of the last Saturday’s governorship election in the State. Declaring the result at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) State headquarters in Abakaliki, the State Returning Officer, Prof. Charles Igwe, said that Rt. Hon. Nwifuru garnered 199,131 votes across the 13 local government areas of the State. His closest challenger, Chief Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) scored 80,191 votes to come second while the candidate of the All Progressives Grand…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has suspended further collation of governorship election results in some parts of Abia and Enugu states. This was made known in a statement signed by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye on Monday. It will be recalled that INEC’s office in Obingwa Local Government Area in Abia State was invaded by thugs on Sunday, March 19, 2023, and its officials were held hostage in relation to the collation of results from the Local Government Area. Similarly, reports from Enugu State called for a review of the results of…
Zamfara Speaker, Deputy Lose To PDP Candidate The Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly, Nasiru Muazu Magarya and his deputy, Musa Bawa Musa Yankuzo, have been defeated in the last Saturday’s election by the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party. The returning officer for the Zurmi West Constituency election, Ismail Mudassir Moriki, declared Bilyaminu Ismail of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the election in their Speaker’s constituency. Ismail polled 11,213 votes to defeat the Speaker who scored 9,530 votes. In the same vein, the deputy speaker of the state assembly, Yankuzo, lost his reelection bid to…
There is tension in Jalingo, Taraba state capital over sporadic shootings around the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office and police headquarters in Jalingo. Reasons for the shooting are not immediately clear but some sources said it was misunderstanding between some security agents guarding the INEC office. Shops and markets were abruptly shut down and streets deserted while parents rushed to schools to take their children. Police spokesman, ASP Usman Abdullahi, did not answer or reply to a text message sent to him by our reporter as of the time of filing this report.
The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the recently concluded governorship election in Lagos State, Funke Akindele, has deleted posts relating to politics and the PDP from her Instagram page. On Monday morning, checks found that she had deleted posts, videos of her campaign and party activities, leaving only personal photos and those of her movie promotions. Akindele who is the running mate of Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor, were defeated by the incumbent governor and All Progressives Congress candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in Saturday’s election. In December 2022, while the actress was promoting her film, Battle on…
Ummaru Nagona, one of the notorious bandits terrorising residents of North West, has died in an encounter with the military. During his reign, Nagona operated on the eastern part Sokoto, especially in villages of Isa and Sabon Birni local governments. Residents saw hell at the hands of the banidit who worked with other gang members. Commenting on the killing of the bandit, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, a former Daily Trust Editor, who covered insecurity extensively, wrote, “I just received confirmation of the killing of the notorious bandit, Ummaru Nagona in an encounter with Nigerian Army. He was crushed along with his…
The incessant scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, vandalism of pipelines, oil theft and several other menaces in the oil and gas sector are due to the gross mismanagement of the industry by the Federal Government and politicians, the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise has said. CPPE described the management of the oil sector by politicians as a disaster, stressing that the government should reduce its hold on the industry and privatise some facilities in it, such as the four refineries being run by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. “Let’s take the oil and…
The National Human Rights Commission on Sunday, said it would invite Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and the Chairman of Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya a.k.a. MC Oluomo for questioning, following their behaviours and alleged inciting comments during the 2023 general election. The PUNCH reports that a day before the Presidential and National Assembly elections held, on February 25, Bello allegedly ordered bulldozers to demarcate a road, linking Kogi Central Senatorial District. The move was seen as an alleged ploy to prevent officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission from taking election materials to the stronghold of…
Gov Sule wins re-election bid in Nasaraw The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the governorship election in Nasarawa state. Ishaya Tanko, the state collation officer and returning officer, made the declaration on Monday. The APC candidate polled a total of 347, 209 votes to defeat his closest opponent David Ombugadu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 283, 016 votes.