Security operatives have arrested former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu. Family sources said Iwu was arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Sunday and whisked away to Lagos. The source said the security operatives came from Port Harcourt and linked up with the Imo State Commissioner of Police, who telephoned Prof Iwu and invited him to Owerri. When Iwu came for the meeting, he was whisked away by security operatives and taken to the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos. It was gathered that in Lagos, Prof Iwu…
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Results for the 44 LGAs in Kano have been announced and Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), did not secure a single win in the state. President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won in all the Local Government Areas of Kano State, according to the result of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).Results for the 44 LGAs in Kano have been announced and Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), did not secure a single win in the state.Kano State has 44 LGAs.See the breakdown below: 1. Garin Mallam…
Senatorial candidate of the ruling APC in the state, Abiola Ajimobi, has lost in all four Local Governments that constitute his senatorial district Official senatorial results from seven of the nine local governments in Oyo South Senatorial District have been announced.
Ike Ekweremadu, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate and deputy senate president has been declared winner of Enugu West Senatorial District for the fifth time in Saturday Presidential/National Assembly elections. Ekweremadu polled 86,088 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 15,187 votes. The Returning Officer, Prof Douglas Nwagbo of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) announced the results in Awgu on Sundaya. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that with the victory, Ekweremadu holds the senatorial mandate for the 5th time. Reacting to the development, the deputy senate president said he…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared President Muhammadu Buhari winner of the election in Ekiti and Osun states. The president, who is in a clear lead in the results so far declared in the north, extended his winning streak to the south-west. He is leading in 13 of the 16 local government areas of Ogun state so far declared by INEC. There are 20 LGs in the state. In Ekiti, Buhari scored a total of 219,231 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar,presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 154,032 votes. Buhari polled 347,674 votes in Osun while…
Sen. Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party ((PDP) has been declared winner of the Kogi West Senatorial election held on Feb. 23. The Returning Officer, Prof. Emmanuel Bala announced in the early hours of Monday in Lokoja that Melaye polled 85, 395 votes to defeat Sen. Smart Adeyemi of the APC who scored 66, 901 votes.
Ibrahim Dankwambo, the governor of Gombe State, has lost his bid for the Senate seat of Gombe North Senatorial District. He lost to the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Sa’idu Alkali, in Saturday’s National Assembly election. Announcing the result at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) the collation centre in Malam Sidi of Kwami Local Government Area of the state, the Returning Officer, Umar Gurama from the Federal Unversity Kashere, said Mr Alkali polled 152,546 votes. Mr Dankwambo polled 88016 votes during Saturday National Assembly elections at the Gombe North Senatorial district in the state. Also, the APC’s House of…
The convoy of a former governor of Kano State and leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has been attacked in in Kofa village in Bebeji Local Government Area of Kano State, MERIDIAN SPY can report. Scores of party supporters from both camps died, while several others sustained various degrees of injury. Mr Kwankwaso had planned his final rally alongside the PDP governorship candidate, Abba Yusuf, to be held at Kiru and Bebeji on Thursday but the long motorcade of the party leader was denied passage through Kofa village. Sources said the clash occurred when…
The Deputy Speaker of Yobe State House of Assembly, Dr. Garba Ibrahim Kurmi is dead, MERIDIAN SPY can reliably report. According to a close family source, Dr Kurmi passed on, Monday at the Yobe State University Teaching Hospital Damaturu after a protarcted illness. Until his death, Dr Kurmi was a member of the State Assembly representing Fika I (Fika/Ngalda) on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) and the chairman security, petition and legislative compliance committee of the house, as well as member of various standing committees.
Popular Malaysian pastor, Dr Jonathan David, has revealed winner of the 2019 presidential election. The cleric, who made the revelation in a viral video, prophesied victory for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, President Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, God told him that Nigeria is on the path of righteousness and will not return to corruption. Pastor David also predicted that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, will serve for four or five more terms, by which time, Nigeria would have been a force to reckon with globally. He said, “With what God is doing in Nigeria, it…
Deji Adeyanju, convener of Concerned Nigerians, and co-convener of ‘Our mumu don do movement,’ has been released on bail by a Kano State Magistrate Court. Adeyanju has been remanded in a Kano prison after he was rearrested and charged for culpable homicide by the Nigeria Police Force, over a case said to have been decided upon by the Kano State High Court in 2009. Adeyanju was granted bail in the sum of N50,000 and two sureties. The court also ordered him to deposit his international passport. Cumulatively, Adeyanju spent 63 days in prison before his release was granted on Monday…
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for an emergency All Progressive Congress caucus meeting, MERIDIAN SPY, has learnt. The need for the meeting came through following the postponement of the presidential and national assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Saturday. The meeting has been slated for Monday Feb. 18 at the Presidential Villa, Abuja by 11am, MERIDIAN SPY can exclusively reports. According to a top source in the presidency, those invited for the meeting are members of the National Working Committee, National Executive Committee, top ranking APC senators, House of Representatives members and top political appointees…