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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, said it applied the “margin of lead principle” in announcing the winner of the Nov. 11 governorship election in Kogi. INEC said that the supplement election earlier scheduled for Nov. 18 would not take place as announced. Haliru Sule, Head of Voter Education and Publicity, Kogi INEC office, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja. Sule explained that the commission had received various complaints during Saturday’s election, investigated them, and announced a re-run in Ogorimagongo and some Local Government Areas. “But when we looked…

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Gov Diri Wins Bayelsa Guber Electio The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Douye Diri, as the winner of the Bayelsa State governorship election held on Saturday. The state’s Returning Officer of the commission, Prof. Faruq Kuta, announced Diri after receiving the final result from Southern Ijaw out of eight Local Government Area of the state. While the PDP candidate scored 175, 196 votes, the APC candidate, Sylva got 110, 108, giving the incumbent an edge of 65, 088 votes to secure his second tenure in office.

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The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission have entered into partnership on the fight against corruption in the oil, gas and mining sectors. NEITI’s Executive Secretary, Ogbonnaya Orji, and the Executive Chairman EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, made the commitments when a delegation of the NEITI management team paid a courtesy visit to the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. Orji in a statement issued by his agency in Abuja on Sunday, said NEITI visited EFCC to strengthen the existing ties, partnership and cooperation between the two anti-corruption agencies in information and data sharing, investigation and prosecution of…

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Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman has congratulated Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo over his re-election in Saturday’s  governorship poll. Ganduje said this in a statement signed by Mr Edwin Olofu, his Chief Press Secretary in Abuja. He also expressed happiness with the overwhelming support exhibited by Kogi electorate in electing Alhaji Ahmed Ododo in the state’s governorship poll. He said the electoral feats of both Uzodimma and Ododo reinforced the fact that Nigerians were well at home with the APC. He added that the victory of the APC in both states underlined the fact that…

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Kogi State Governor, Alh. Yahaya Adoza Bello on Sunday evening revealed that he started planning for who will succeed him the very day he was sworn in for the second term as governor of the state. The governor stated this while addressing newsmen in Lokoja, the state capital, immediately the Governor-Elect, Alhaji Usman Ahmed Ododo, was declared winner of yesterday’s off-cycle governorship election in the state, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He noted that anything that has a beginning must also have an end. Governor Bello also appreciated the governor-elect and the deputy governor-elect, Comrade Joel Salifu Oyibo…

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