The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the majority of the seats in the Ondo state house of assembly. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the results of the state assembly elections on Sunday. The APC won 22 of the 26 constituencies, while the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) won the remaining four seats. Ondo is one of the eight states where governorship election did not hold on Saturday. Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of the state, is expected to complete his second term in office in 2024. The state assembly elections took place across 3,933 polling units and 203 wards. Four…
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Bayo Onanuga, a spokesperson for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Saturday night, warned Igbo in Lagos against “interfering” in politics in the state. Onanuga, who is the director of media and publicity of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, issued the warning in a tweet via his official Twitter account, @aonanuga1956. He said, “Let 2023 be the last time of Igbo interference in Lagos politics. Let there be no repeat in 2027. Lagos is like Anambra, Imo, any Nigerian state. It is not No Man’s Land, not Federal Capital Territory. It is Yoruba land. Mind your business.” The…
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has lost his polling unit to the Peoples Democratic Party in the governorship and House of Assembly elections held yesterday in Nasarawa State. It was reported that in his GRA (A1) Polling Unit 010, in Keffi, the headquarters of Keffi Local Government Area, the PDP got 159 votes, while APC polled 129 as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s presiding officer, Okoh Everest. The result also showed that the Social Democratic Party got one vote, while the Labour Party, got zero. However, recall that two days…
Okowa’s Daughter Wins Delta Assembly Sea Marilyn Okowa-Daramola, the daughter of the Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has won the Ika North/East Constituency seat for the Delta State House of Assembly on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. Okowa’s daughter won in the election conducted on Saturday by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The daughter of the vice presidential candidate of the PDP in the February 25, 2023 elections scored 5035 votes out of the 5,298 valid votes in the Constituency.
A suspected ballot box snatcher was on Saturday gunned down at a polling unit in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. Witnesses said the young man was shot dead while another sustained gunshots injury when they tried to snatch a ballot box at a polling unit in Gboko South. Chairman of Gboko LGA, Isaac Mtom, said he got information thar one person shot while trying to cart away electoral materials. “What I was told is that one person was shot by security operatives. I wasn’t there but that’s what I heard. They even said the person was not dead,”…
INEC Postpones Election in 10 Polling Units in Lago The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in 10 polling units in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) around the Lekki area of the state. Segun Agbaje, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, disclosed this while addressing newsmen at the location. According to him, corps members deployed as ad hoc staff on Saturday were hesitant to enter the VGC estate as they alleged that they were held hostage in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. Agbaje said the commission’s ad hoc staff set up voting…
Obasanjo Misses out at his Polling Uni Former president Olusegun Obasanjo for the first time since return to democracy in Nigeria was absent on election day . Obasanjo who had thrown his support behind the presidential candidate of the Labour Party ,Peter Obi cast his vote during the last election . But, Obasanjo was no where no be found at his polling unit 22 ward 11, Olusomi compound ,Totoro,Abeokuta-north local government area of the state, for the governorship and state house of assembly elections. When contacted Obasanjo’s media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi said his boss had travelled out of the country…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has encouraged voters to exercise their franchise in the ongoing Governorship and State House of Assembly elections nationwide, saying people’s votes must count in order nourish Nigeria’s democracy. The LP leader, who went to the polling both in company of his wife, Mrs Margaret Obi, called on members of the electorate who were yet to cast their votes to do on Saturday. Obi said, “At about 11.20am this morning, I exercised my franchise by casting my vote in my polling unit. My dear wife Margaret also voted. “I encourage every…
The State House of Assembly poll in Imo, in the early hours of Saturday, recorded a very low turnout in most of the 16 Local Governments in the State. This is even as the late arrival of the staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission and electoral materials have undermined the integrity of the process. Information gathered from people monitoring the exercise observed that prospective voters are dissatisfied with the absence of INEC officials at polling stations. At booths 008, 009 and 020 in the Ihiagwa Community in the Owerri West Local Government Area of the state, our correspondent…
Akwa Ibom Gov Udom Emmanuel Casts Vote Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, cast his vote at his polling unit in Awa ward 1 in the Onna Local Government area of the state. Punch
Bauchi Residents get Free Foodstuff on Election da Some Bauchi residents were seen carrying food items in a white sack along Ahmadu Bello Way, in the Bauchi metropolis, suspected to be for voters’ inducement. Punch observed that some had one sack, some two while a woman was seen with many sacks inside a tricycle popularly called, Keke NAPEP. It was observed that the food items were being brought from a particular house along the street. There were many people around the house with many waiting to collect theirs. Details later…
LagosDecide2023: Jandor Arrives Polling Unit The Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran aka Jandor, arrived at his polling unit at Osolu Junior High School, Unit 001 ward G in Irewe community, Ojo local government area of the state.