THE Senatorial candidate of the Labour Party in the Federal Capital Territory, Hajiya Ireti Kingibe, on Monday, raised the alarm on how political thugs were allegedly recruited to rig the election following the cancellation of results from polling units in Bwari and Gwagwalada Area Councils by the Independent National Electoral Commission. She, however, expressed optimism that the will of the people must prevail. While alleging that thugs attacked some collation centres and tore presidential result sheets, without being arrested, the candidate said she would stand her ground and ensure that the right thing was done. According to her, due to…
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PRESIDENTIAL candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has scored the highest votes in Saturday’s presidential election in Nasarawa State. Obi polled a total votes of 191,361 in the contest to defeat his closest rival, Mr. Ahmed Bola-Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, who got 172,922 votes while Mr. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party secured 147, 093 votes. News Point Nigeria reports that the presidential election results were collated and announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC), collation officer in Nasarawa State, Prof. Ishaya Tanko. Tanko, who is the Vice-Chancellor University of Jos, Plateau state, saod the…
TWO agents of the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, stormed out of the National Collation Centre for the presidential election results at the International Conference Centre in Abuja on Monday. A member of the 8th National Assembly from Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye; and a former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha; amongst other party agents staged a walkout on the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu over dissatisfaction on the process of the collation of results from state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs). The drama ensued around…
ELECTION Observers from The international republican institute and the national democratic institute have expressed concerns over the violence that erupted in some parts of the country during the just concluded elections . Leader of the NDI/IRI election observer group, Dr Joyce Banda who was speaking at a news conference in Abuja notes that while the signing of the peace accord offered the presidential aspirants the opportunity to caution their supporters, it failed to achieve the aim . The group states that the election fell short of its expectation owing to lack of adequate logistics and political violence amongst others. The…
THERE was drama at the International Conference Centre in Abuja on Monday when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) resumed the collation of the February 25 presidential election results for the second day. The drama ensued when a former member of the 8th Nigerian National Assembly, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye protested the results from Ekiti State announced earlier on Sunday. Melaye, an agent to the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, caused a stir when he fiercely insisted that the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu must not accept the results of Ekiti, alleging that…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, of the All Progressives Congress the winner of the Niger North senatorial election. According to the returning officer, Zacchaeus Kolo, who announced the results, Bello polled 100,197 votes and having satisfied all conditions was declared winner. Bello won the Niger North senatorial election against the PDP and NNPP candidates who scored 88,158 and 13,886 votes respectively.
THE Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed and her counterpart in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mahmud Muhammad Abubakar have lost their polling units to the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The ministers are indigenes of Kaduna State and currently serving in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed lost her polling unit,.PU 053 in Kawo, Kaduna North, where in the Presidential election, APC scored 8 votes, NNPP 5 and the Peoples Democratic Party 15 votes. The Minister of Agriculture, Mahmud Muhammad Abubakar lost his polling unit in Tudun Wada,…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Salihu Mustapha of the All Progressive Congress the winner of the Kwara Central Senatorial District election. Mr Mustapha secured 109,823 votes to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Bolaji Abdullahi. Mr Abdullahi, who is a former minister of sports, got 69,202 votes. The APC candidate was announced as the winner by the Returning Officer, Professor Salih Abubakar. “That Mustapha Salihu of APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law, is hereby declared the winner,” Professor Abubakar declared to cheers from APC supporters. Mr Mustapha, 50, has been in the All…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday cautioned political parties against the release of presidential and National Assembly election results, stressing that only the commission is “legally responsible” for the release of election results. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu made this known when he formally opened the 2023 presidential election collation centre at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. “I appeal to all political parties and media organisations to draw their figures only from the official results released by the commission as the only body constitutionally responsible for releasing official election figures,” Yakubu emphasised. Mahmood also said the collation of…
THE House of Representatives election for Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu federal constituency in Kogi State has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The returning officer, Dr. Adams Baba, declared the result inconclusive in Kabba, the collation centre for the federal constituency, on Sunday. He said the candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Salman Idris who polled the highest votes of 13,867 in the election is deficient by the electoral law to be declared winner of the election. He added that the number of cancelled votes from two polling units in the federal constituency was higher than the margin of…
THE Director General of Tinubu Campaign Organisation, and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Bako Lalong, has lost his polling unit to the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, at polling unit 015, Kurumbo Ward B of Shendam Local Government Area of Plateau State. News Point Nigeria reports that, Lalong is contesting Plateau South Senatorial District in the Saturday’s election. He voted at Unit 015 located at the LEA Primary School Ajikamai. Sowan Stephen, the presiding officer of the unit, announced that Peter Obi of the Labour Party scored 104 votes, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Bola Ahmed…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced the upload of the 2023 presidential results on its website, News Point Nigeria has observed. Our correspondent who logged into the commission’s portal observed that as of 10:45 pm, results from a total of 2,060 out of the 176,846 polling units have already been uploaded. INEC has come under fire for failing to allow the upload of results on its portal. One of the leading Civil Society Organizations, YIAGA Africa, in a statement on Saturday expressed disappointment at the failure of the commission to upload the results. “Yiaga Africa is deeply concerned with…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cancelled the voting process in seven polling units in the Kogi East Senatorial District of the state following the disruption of voting by thugs in the affected areas. According to INEC, two polling units were cancelled in Anyigba while five others were annulled in the Omala community of the state. The electoral umpire stated that the attack by thugs who shot into the air and disrupted the polling units contravened the Electoral Act as such election from the concerned areas stand cancelled. The attack, INEC said, led to the sudden end of the…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the election in the Esan and Igueben federal constituency in Edo State. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this at an election briefing on Saturday. According to him, the suspension was due to the omission of the logo of a party on ballot papers. The electoral chief said the poll in the federal constituency will now hold on March 11 alongside the governorship and state assemblies’ polls. Yakubu said, “In Edo State, we had a situation that we handled yesterday (Friday), one of the parties whose acronym is on the score sheet but…
THERE was palpable tension in Dagiri under Gwagwalada Local Government Area of Abuja as suspected political thugs destroyed 24 ballot boxes in eight polling units few hours to voting deadline. News Point Nigeria had reported that thugs on Saturday afternoon destroyed ballot boxes, chased the INEC ad hoc officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission and prospective voters in the area away. The polling units are 022, 021, 023, 003, at Dagiri Phase three by Venus Road open space. Others are 011, 012,013,014 located close to Wazobia Park by Madam Mercy Road open space. It was gathered that the stick…
SORTING and counting of votes for the presidential and National Assembly elections have commenced in many parts of Nigeria. Sorting of ballot papers has begun at Danwaire Primary School in Sabon Gari in Kano State. Sorting and counting of votes have also commenced at PU 27 Model Secondary School Maitama, Abuja. Other places include polling units 025, 026, 027, 028 in the Low-Cost Housing Estate Ward, Unit 26, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos. Voting has also ended and sorting is underway at Unit 026 Anifowose in the Ikeja area of Lagos. Sorting and counting are underway at Ward 03 Unit 03, St…
PETER Obi, Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, has won in one of the polling units inside the Presidential Villa in Abuja. News Point Nigeria reports that, at PU 131, opposite Pilot Gate, State House, Abuja, Obi polled a total of 17 votes while Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) secured six votes and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secured three votes.
THE Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said that officials of the Commission are patrolling different polling units where the presidential and National Assembly elections are taking place on Saturday to forestall vote buying. Bawa made this known in an interview with Channels Television, monitored by News Point Nigeria on Saturday “This impression out there, you see there is a mandate of prevention, there is a mandate of enforcement. The mere fact that our men are there will tend to prevent a lot of things that ordinarily could have happened if we were not…
THE chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Sunday Dogo Zaka has died. News Point Nigeria learnt that, Zaka died a few hours to the presidential election on Saturday in a fatal accident in Kuje Area Council. According to a close source, who pleaded anonymity, Zaka’s vehicle collided with an electric poll close to his house in Kuje while returning from a meeting with Senator Philip Aduda at about 3am Saturday morning. News Point Nigeria gathered that, Zaka was with a close ally in the vehicle, who also died at the spot of the…
A NIGERIAN Security and Civil Defence Corps vehicle conveying election materials from Abuja to Lagos crashed on Friday evening, election eve. News Point Nigeria learnt that, the anccident occurred at the Giri Roundabout bridge in Abuja. The vehicle was also carrying operatives of the NSCDC to Lagos. In a video on social media, people are seen rendering helping to pick up papers suspected to be electoral materials littered on the ground. A man who spoke in the video said some of the passengers were injured adding that one of them sustained a head injury. He however added that some senior officials…