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Category: Election 2019

  • I’ll wait for INEC’s final results, says Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said he doesn’t believe in rumour and would rather wait for the result that will be declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    Various results on the social media have trailed the Presidential and National Assembly elections held across the country last Saturday.

    But the President, on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Monday, said that he will wait for the final result declaration by INEC.

    Buhari had left Abuja on Friday for Daura, Katsina State, in order to exercise his civic responsibility.

    Asked his reaction to what he was hearing from across the country, he said “I don’t want to depend on rumours, but we will rather wait for INEC to announce the results.”

    Read Also: Update: Buhari leads in 32 LGAs in Kano

    On his message to Nigerians as they await the release of results, Buhari said “Well l hope that Nigerians will appreciate that it was this government which made sure that they were allowed in security and peace to cast their votes for whichever party and candidates they wanted.”

    The sorting, counting and collation of the Presidential and National Assembly elections results are still on going across the country.

  • Update: Buhari leads in 32 LGAs in Kano

    The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari is leading in 32 Local Government Areas in Kano, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential, Atiku Abubakar is struggling to clinch unto 25% needed by his party.

    Garko LGA

    APC: 22,356

    PDP: 2840

    Code:014

    Reg Voters: 91,656

    Accredited Voters:27,856

    Valid Votes: 25,955

    Rejected Votes: 1299

    Votes Cast: 27,254

    Doguwa LGA

    APC: 25454

    PDP: 7013

    Code:011

    Reg Voters: 71,663

    Accredited Voters:34,610

    Valid Votes: 32,735

    Rejected Votes: 649

    Votes Cast: 33,384

    Kabo LGA

    APC: 29,482

    PDP: 8,955

    Code:

    Reg Voters: 84,423

    Accredited Voters:41510

    Valid Votes: 39036

    Rejected Votes: 1634

    Votes Cast: 40,670

    Kiru LGA

    APC: 36,739

    PDP: 12,205

    Code: 24

    Reg Voters:123,058

    Accredited Voters: 52,166

    Valid Votes: 49,677

    Rejected Votes: 1557

    Votes Cast: 51,234

    Shanono LGA

    APC: 24,173

    PDP: 8,469

    Code: 35

    Reg Voters:69,796

    Accredited Voters: 35,135

    Valid Votes: 33,386

    Rejected Votes: 1054

    Votes Cast: 34,440

    Danbatta LGA

    APC: 31850

    PDP: 6,947

    Code:08

    Reg Voters: 112,501

    Accredited Voters: 43,772

    Valid Votes: 39,720

    Rejected Votes:2,119

    Votes Cast: 41,839

    Wudil LGA

    APC: 28,755

    PDP: 5,108

    Code:44

    Reg Voters:107,507

    Accredited Voters:36,899

    Valid Votes: 34754

    Rejected Votes:1250

    Votes Cast: 36004

    Bichi LGA

    APC: 42,714

    PDP: 11,050

    Code: 05

    Reg Voters:131,059

    Accredited Voters: 58,707

    Valid Votes: 54931

    Rejected Vote: 2596

    Votes Cast: 57,527

    Ungogo LGA

    APC: 51,842

    PDP: 10,475

    Minjibir LGA

    APC: 27,725

    PDP: 2840

  • Imo West: Collation Officer denies hostage rumour

    …declares Okorocha winner

     

    There was a mild drama Monday at the Collation Centre for Imo West Senatorial District in Orlu, Orlu Council Area of Imo State, when the Collation Officer, Prof. Ibeawuchi Francis from the Federal University of Owerri (FUTO), hid the original result sheet after declaring the Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha as the Senator-elect.

    Ibeawuchi who stopped the declaration of the result halfway on Sunday night after announcing the result for nine Local Government Areas, out of which Okorocha won eight LGAs, said that he left the original result sheet at the INEC office in Owerri and instead wrote the result on a rumpled sheet of paper.

    But the party agents insisted that he produced the original result sheet, resulting in several hours of argument until security operatives intervened and pleaded with the party agents to exercise patience and confirm from the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Francis Ezeonu to ascertain the claim of the Collation Officer.

    When called on phone by one of the senior Police officers, the REC said that the result sheet was in the possession of the Collation Officer and ordered him to produce it.

    Shortly after the call, the Collation Officer, produced the Original result sheet and entered the figures before announcing the result a second time.

    Governor Okorocha polled a total number of 97762 votes to defeat his closest rival, Jones Onyereri of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 63117 votes.

    Addressing journalists shortly after announcing the results, the Collation Officer, who looked sober, debunked the news trending on the social media that his daughter was kidnapped to force him to announce the result.

    He said, “I have announced the result, APC had the highest vote so the Governor, His Excellency Rochas Okorocha of the APC has been declared winner”. I was not forced to announce the result and no member of my family was kidnapped, I am not aware of any such report”.

  • Buhari wins Osun with 347,634 votes

    President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won Osun with 347,634 votes against PDP which scored 337,377 votes.

    Total valid votes: 714, 682

    Rejected votes: 17,200

    Total vote cast: 731,882

     

  • Breaking: Buhari wins Ekiti with 219,231 votes

    President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won Ekiti with 219,213 votes.

    The Returning officer for the state, Prof. Idiwu Olayinka, the Vice Chancellor University of Ibadan, said out of the 395, 741 that accredited to vote, APC scored 219, 231 against PDP which scored 154,034 votes.

    Total number of valid votes, according to Olayinka, is 381,132 while 12,577 were rejected due to multiple thumb printing.

    Read Also: Buhari wins Yobe with 85% votes

    Total vote cast, he said, is 393,709.

    The party agents are expected to inspect the results sheets signed at the state collation office.

    Ekiti state is the only state without a Resident Electoral Commissioner.

    Details shortly…

  • Buhari wins Yobe with 85% votes

    The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari has swept 85% of votes cast in the state with his closest opponent, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party trailing behind with just 9% of the votes.

    Announcing the results at the INEC Headqaurters in Damaturu, Prof Abubakar Musa Gundiri, Vice Chancellor Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State who is the state Returning Officer for the Presidential Election said President Buhari of the APC pulled a total of APC 497, 914 of 586, 137 total votes cast as against his PDP opponent Atiku Abubakar who scored 50,763 representing 85 and 8.6 respectively.

    Prof. Gundiri informed that Yobe has a total of 1, 365,913 registered voters. Out of the figure, he said 601,059 voters were accredited for the election.

    He also announced that a total of votes were validated for the election 559,365, just as 26,772 votes were rejected.

    Read Also: Buhari maintains lead in Kaduna, wins 9 of 14 LGAs so far

    Below is the breakdown of the results from local government between APC and PDP:

    PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS FOR YOBE STATE 2019

    1. Bursari APC 22,253 PDP 2,555

    2. Jakusko APC 34,424 PDP 3,390

    3. Gulani APC 22,858 PDP 2,612

    4. Bade APC 42,485 PDP 3,295

    5. Nguru APC 36,433 PDP 5,352

    6. Yunusari APC 23,837 PDP 939

    7. Potiskum APC 62,101 PDP 4,331

    8. Fune APC 43,948 PDP 5,707

    9. Yusufari APC 22,157 PDP 3,567

    10. Fika APC 42,488 PDP , 5522

    11. Geidam APC 16,338 PDP 613

    12. Tarmuwa APC 12,122 PDP 1,269

    13. Damaturu APC 35,772 PDP 2,099

    14. Machina APC 14,619 PDP 2,315

    15. Karasuwa APC 22,377 PDP 3,692

    16. Gujba APC 12,227 PDP 325

    17. Nangere APC 31475 PDP 3180

  • Atiku wins Ayade’s local government

    Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has won Obudu, the home local government area of Cross River State governor, Prof Ben Ayade.

    Atiku scored 30, 562 to beat Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, who came second with 4, 794.

    The Collation Officer, Dr Tony Eyang, while declaring the result at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) secretariat in Calabar, said the exercise was peaceful in the area.

    Eyang, a lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, in the University of Calabar, said the area has a voting strength of 131, 470 but 38, 738 were accredited to vote.

    Read Also: Atiku maintains lead in 18 Adamawa LGAs

    Atiku is leading so far in the state by a wide margin after the announcement of nine out of 18 local government areas in the state.

    Also, the elections for Etung local area were cancelled due to violence. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Frankland Briyai, was silent on whether there would be a new date for the elections.

    Also, there were no elections in four out of 10 wards of Bakassi local government area due to problems with assessing the areas by sea. INEC was also silent about what would be done about this.

  • Buhari leads comfortably in Kaduna

    …9 LGAs to go, collation resumes 2pm

    All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari has maintained lead in the Saturday presidential election in Kaduna State.

    Buhari has defeated the People’s Democratic Party (PDP’s) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in nine of the 14 local governments’ results so far collated.

    According to the results collated at the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kaduna State headquarters by Professor Bello B. Shehu, Buhari has so far won in Kubau, Makarfi, Kudan, Sabon Gari, Ikara, Kauru, Giwa, Soba and Igabi local government areas.

    Read Also: Buhari leads in eight Kebbi LGAs

    Meanwhile, the PDP candidate has emerged victorious in Zango Kataf, Kaura, Kajuru, Kagarko and Jaba local government areas.

    As at the adjournment of the collation exercise around 10:30am on Monday, results from the rest nine local government areas, which include; Zaria, Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Chikun, Birnin-Gwari, Jema’a, Kachia, Sanga and Lere were being awaited.

    The exercise is expected to resume by 2:00pmon Monday.

    The results of the presidential election local government by local government are as follow;

    1. KUBAU LG
    APC: 67,140
    PDP: 13,296

    2. MAKARFI LG
    APC: 36,625
    PDP: 14,494

    3. IKARA LG
    APC: 44,021
    PDP: 14,464

    4. KAURA LG
    APC: 6,907
    PDP: 33,647

    5. JABA LG
    APC: 6,400
    PDP: 22,758

    6. KUDAN
    APC: 30,577
    PDP: 11,697

    7. ZANGO KATAF
    APC: 10,411
    PDP: 62,622

    8. SABON GARI
    APC: 58,467
    PDP: 22,644

    9. SOBA
    APC: 51,548
    PDP: 10,656

    10. KAURU
    APC: 33,578
    PDP: 27,041

    11. KAGARKO
    APC: 16,663
    PDP: 21,605

    12. KAJURU
    APC: 7,888
    PDP: 31,446

    13. GIWA
    APC: 45,574
    PDP: 9,838

    14. IGABI LG
    APC: 97,308
    PDP: 20,281

  • Coalition carpets INEC over Akwa Ibom polls

    A group, Akwa Ibom Progressives Coalition, has described Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state as shambolic and disgraceful.

    It also faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying its performances were “completely unbecoming of election umpires in any elections in any part of the world in the 21st century.”

    In a statement by its Secretary-General, Akpan Udo Solomon, the coalition said: “From reports and independent observations, the malicious intention and activities of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in Akwa Ibom on Saturday have left a lot to be desired and it is safe to conclude that Nigeria has taken a huge step back in consolidating on progress made regarding elections in the last couple of years.

    “It is sad to note that a body as revered as INEC will stoop low to get into cahoots with politicians and other parties in the state to embarrass itself and shamelessly become a tool in the hand of politicians to promote their selfish agenda”.

    The group added: “Akwa Ibom witnessed several incidents of voter intimidation, violence, and other untoward activities that marred elections in many polling units and areas that were seen to be loyal to the opposition across the length and breadth of the state, and these were either initiated or helped along by the INEC, the various state security apparatus, as well as other unscrupulous elements.

    Read Also: Buhari leads Atiku in Yobe

    “Some of the incidents reported by the press and other independent observers include massive cancellations of results from poling units in opposition party strongholds.

    “For instance, in Ikono Local Government, one of the strongholds of the main opposition party – the APC, results from 73 out of 144 polling units were cancelled for no reason at all.

    “Also, in Ward 6, results from 9 out of 10 units were illegally cancelled, leaving just about 200 registered voters to decide the fate of more about 6000 registered voters in the ward”.

    The coalition also alleged that many of the electoral officers of the INEC had been compromised with cases of multiple voting reported while indicting the Akwa Ibom State government officials.

    It added: “In many polling units, there were confirmed reports of card readers being deliberately turned off by INEC Officials who immediately switched to manual accreditation, which opened the floodgates for multiple voting by PDP sympathisers who had been ferried into such polling stations for this purpose.

    “Massive collaboration was also reported between the state government, Police and INEC officials to disrupt the voting process in opposition strongholds and intimidate voters and supporters whilst there were widespread reports of opposition supporters and agents being compelled at gunpoint to vote for the PDP.”

    The coalition further alleged the PDP circulated cooked and fake results ahead of general elections.

  • Kano: Gaya, Jibrin retain senatorial seats

    Two incumbent Senators from Kano state have retained their seats following their victory in the Saturday’s National Assembly elections.

    The two Senators are: Sen. Barau Jibril-Maliya representing Kano North Senatorial district and Sen. Kabiru Gaya, who is representing Kano South Senatorial district.

    Announcing the results of National Assembly elections, the returning officer for Kano North Senatorial district, Prof. Ali Tijjani-Abdullahi said on Monday that the APC senatorial candidate, Barau Jibril-Maliya scored 286,419 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Alhaji Ahmed Garba-Bichi, who polled 155, 638 votes.

    Read Also: Senators who won’t be in the 9th assembly

    Similarly, the returning officer for Kano South Senatorial district, Prof. Ibrahim Barde of the Bayero University Kano declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Kabiru Gaya as the winner of the election in the Kano South Senatorial seat.

    Barde said Gaya secured 319,004 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Alhaji Abdullahi Sani-Rogo who got 217,520 votes.

    Meanwhile, the collation of results for the Kano Central Senatorial zone is ongoing at the collation Centre.