THE trial of a former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, on alleged N109 billion corruption charges was on Wednesday stalled at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory. This occurred because one of the statements dated July 5, 2022, which he made to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission during the investigation was missing as the EFCC, the court and the defence team could not locate the statement in their files. Earlier, on October 27, 2022 EFCC had re-arraigned Idris on 13 counts which bordered on alleged misappropriation of the sum of N109 billion alongside Olusegun Akindele,…
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THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has lost all three Senatorial seats to its People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State in Saturday’s parliamentary elections. Out of the three seats – Kaduna North, Kaduna Central, and Southern Kaduna – only Southern Kaduna was previously occupied by PDP. In Kaduna north, the incumbent Senator, Suleiman Abdu Kwari of the APC lost to Khalid Ibrahim Mustapha of the PDP. The returning officer for the election, Professor Saleh Ado, announced that Khalid secured 260,026 votes against Kwari, who polled 190,008 votes. In Kaduna Central, PDP’s Lawal Adamu Usman, popularly known as (Mr. LA), won…
PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar has won the presidential election in Kaduna State. Atiku swept the polls in Kaduna with 554,360 votes, beating his closest rival, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who polled 399,293 votes. In the election the Labour Party candidate, Mr Peter Obi polled 294,494 votes. Below is the final result from Kaduna State. Registered voters: 4,335,208 Accredited voters: 1,418046 Valid votes: 1360153 Invalid votes: 41,223 Total Vote cast: 1,401376 APC: 399,293 LP: 294,494 NNPP: 92,969 PDP: 554,360 Similarly Atiku has won the presidential election in Sokoto State, polling 288,679 as against 285,444 which was…
MUHAMMAD Bello El-Rufai of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the eldest son of Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, has won a House of Representatives seat in Kaduna North Local Government Area of the state. The returning officer Professor Muhammad Magaji Garba announced said that El-Rufai polled 51,052 to defeat the incumbent member Suleiman Samaila Abdu of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP who polled 34,808. Other candidates defeated were Shehu Mohammed Faisal of the Labour Party who scored 7531. Aliyu Muhammad Ahmad of NNPP scored 10,148.
PLATEAU State Governor Simon Lalong who is also the Director General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has lost the bid to clinch the Plateau South Senatorial District slot. He lost to Rtd AVM Bali Ninkap Napoleon of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the National Assembly elections conducted on Saturday. While announcing the results, the Returning Officer Professor Meshak Goyit declared that Bali Napoleon of PDP scored a total of 148,844 votes to defeat Governor Lalong of APC with 91,674 votes while Tobias Nda of the Labour Party scored 17,325 votes.
SADIQ Ango Abdullahi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who spent 69 days in captivity, has won the Sabon Gari federal constituency election with 33,616 votes. He defeated the fourth time member representing the constituency in the National Assembly, Mohammed Garba Datti of the APC who polls 31,737 votes. Recall that Ango Abdullahi was one of kidnapped victims of Kaduna train attack who was elected as PDP candidate for the seat while in captivity. He is the son of the Chairman, Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi.
PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has been declared winner of Saturday’s election in 16 Local Government Areas of Kwara State. Tinubu garnered 263,572 votes to defeat his closet challenger and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who came a distant second with 136,909 votes. The number of registered voters for the election were 1,695,928 while the accredited voters were 497,519. Total valid votes were 469,971, rejected, 26,712 and total votes cast were 496,683. Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) scored 31,166 to come third while Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Sen. Godiya Akwashiki of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), as the winner of Saturday’s election for Nasarawa North Senatorial District. The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Ilemona Adofu of Federal University, Lafia, in the early hours of Monday in Akwanga, declared Akwashiki as the winner with 44,471 votes. Adofu defeated the former Executive Secretary, National Judicial Commission (NJC), Alhaji Danladi Halilu Envuluanza of the All Progressives Congress, who scored 32,058 votes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the People Democratic Party (PDP) scored 11,212 votes, New Nigeria Peoples Party 4,083 votes…
CANDIDATE of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Chanchaga Federal Constituency of Niger State, Abubakar Abdul Buba has defeated the APC Candidate, Abubakar Adamu, younger brother to the former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, in the just concluded National Assembly elections in the state. Announcing the House of Representatives election results at the former Education Resource Centre, Minna, the State Capital, Professor Mercy Modupe Adeyeye, said Buba of the PDP scored a total of 35,688 votes while Ado Salami of the APC scored 19, 282. Candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Ibrahim Abdulaziz, scored 1, 747 while the…
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani, has promised to review some policies of the incumbent administration that the people consider unfavourable. Speaking at the governorship debate organised by BBC Hausa in Kaduna, on Wednesday, Sani said being human, Governor Nasir El-Rufai is bound to make certain mistakes. He admitted that there could have been some errors with El-Rufai’s policies in the areas of education and human development. However, he made it clear that he would continue with the good policies of the governor. “I will surely look at some of the policies and…
THE Labour Party candidate for House of Representatives, Kaura Federal Constituency, Kaduna state, Mr Mathew Donatus Kozali, has defeated the Minority Whip of the House of Representatives, Gideon Lucas Gwani. Koazali polled 10,508 voted ahead of Gwani, who polled 10,297 votes. A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gwani was seeking to occupy the seat for the fifth time. Announcing the result at Kaura Local Government Secretariat in southern part of Kaduna state, the Returning Officer, Professor Elija D. Ella, declared that Mr. Mathew Donatus Kuzai as the winner, while Professor Benjamin Kumai Gugong of APC came third with 9, 919 votes.
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has asked the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu to instruct the Collation Officers for yesterday’s election to upload the results to the INEC server immediately. In a statement by his media aide on Sunday, Atiku said this has become necessary to checkmate some governors who are trying to compromise the results at the local government collation level. “It will be a disservice to Nigerians and a negation to democracy for anyone to subvert the will of the people as freely expressed in their votes…
SOME voters at Polling Unit 084 in Rushari Rhakubu in the Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State on Saturday night held officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) hostage over faulty Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines. Polling officials were held hostage until Sunday morning and let go with the intervention of the Electoral Officer of Jos North, Fred Ogboji who came in the company of a Registration Area Technical officer to attend to the malfunctioning BVAS. The presidential and National Assembly elections were suspended at the polling unit on Saturday night when voting could not continue…
THE People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has won at one of the major polling units inside the Kaduna State Government House. Atiku defeated the Ruling Party’s presidential candidate Tinubu at the polling 013. The result signed by the presiding officer, Kalu kelechi Micheal, showed that the APC scored 40, Labour party scored 48, PDP 69, while NNPP had 11. Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna is one of the lead campaigners of Tinubu.
DATTI Baba-Ahmed, the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, has lost his polling unit to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In polling unit 021 situated at Tudun Wada ward, in Zaria LGA of Kaduna state, the total number of accredited voters was 272. PDP secured 102 votes to win the polling unit, followed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) with 98 votes. The LP came third with 54 votes, while the NNPP secured 11 votes.
THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Abdullahi Adamu has lost his polling unit, Angwarimi Ward, GRA A1, LERCEST Office in Keffi, Nasarawa State, for the presidential polls to the Labour Party. The Labour Party’s Peter Obi won in the unit with 132 votes while the APC came second with 85 votes. For the other positions: Senatorial – APC (55), PDP (22), LP (42), NNPP (4), SDP (184), ADC (1), ZLP (3), while invalid votes were seven (7). House of Representatives: APC (46), PDP (41), LP (30), NNPP (4), AA (21), SDP (159), ADC (2), APGA (1),…
KADUNA State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Saturday cast his vote at the Ungwan Sariki Polling Unit in the Kaduna North Local Government Area. News Point Nigeria reports that, speaking to journalists after voting, El-Rufai decried the low turnout of voters in many polling units across Kaduna. Warning that voter apathy could affect the electorate from electing credible leaders who will lead them for the next four years, the governor called on all eligible voters to come out and exercise their franchise. El-Rufai also commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the new improvement in the electoral process. “I must…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it recorded a 93.3 per cent Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) collection rate ahead of the February 25th Presidential and National Assembly elections. According to INEC 87, 209,007 PVCs have so far been collected ahead of the upcoming. There are a total of 6,259,229 uncollected PVCs. In giving details regarding the PVC collection, INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu on Thursday said the current voter register has over 94 million voters, but the Commission will continue to clean up the register using technology available. A breakdown of the figure showed that Lagos leads in the number…
THE Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Whirl Punch have apprehended one of the masterminds of the March 28, 2022 terrorist attack on the Abuja-Kaduna Train service. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, made this known at the bi-weekly news briefing on the operations of the armed forces, on Thursday in Abuja. Danmadami said the suspect was one of the three terrorists apprehended by the troops at Damba community in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Feb. 14. He said the operation led to the recovery of two motorcycles, mobile phones, the sum of 5,000 dollars, other…
THE Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami on Thursday said the fate of governors and other individuals being investigated for alleged treasonable utterances over the naira redesign will be determined by the security agencies. He said this while responding to questions from State House reporters while featuring at the Media Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Some governors such as Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State and Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state had picked holes in the implementation of the currency redesign policy and asked their citizens not to…