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  • APC wins two senate seats in Nasarawa

    APC wins two senate seats in Nasarawa

    The All Progressives Congress (APC), has won two senatorial seats in Nasarawa State in Saturday’s National Assembly elections.

    The incumbent senator, Abdullahi Adamu, representing Nasarawa West senatorial district polled 92, 804 votes to return to the senate.

    He defeated former House of Representative Member and the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Ahmed Wadada who polled 88, 214 votes.

    Mohammed Abdullahi, the INEC returning officer of Nasarawa West made the declaration at the collation centre in Keffi, Keffi Local Government area of the state.

    He said: “By the power conferred on me by the electoral act, I’m hereby declare Abdullahi Adamu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored a total vote of 92,804 to defeat his closest opponent, Honourable Ahmed Wadada of the PDP, who scored 88,214.”

    In Nasarawa South, the APC candidate, Salihu Egebola, defeated the incumbent and the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Mr. Suleiman Adokwe.

    The Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Returning Officer for the district, Dr. Abdullahi Adamu announced this at the district’s collation centre in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.

  • Jonathan wins in Abia

    Jonathan wins in Abia

    The Presidential result of the election held over the weekend shows that President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won in the state with a total of 368,303 votes against General Mohammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC)who had 13,394 votes.

    The result was announced by the presidential returning officer for Abia state and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Prof Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba and said that he will be
    forwarding the result to Abuja.

    However the campaign coordinator of Gen. Buhari, Dr Emmanuel Aguzie Ndukwe has rejected the result of the presidential election in the state and described it as a sham, saying that there were many
    alterations on the result sheet.

    Ndukwe said that the credibility of the result is in serious doubt, “This assertion is being supported by the amount of alterations seen on the result sheet and I can tell you that I am not aware of those
    alterations”.

    APGA, 27,681, Sam Onuigbo PDP; 29052, APC; 4267, LP; 104, UPP;7, PPA; Princewill Ukaegbu, 1,316 this result for Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency was declared by Dr. Chikezie Cosmos shows that Sam
    Onuigbo of the PDP was declared the winner..

    While Darlington Nwokocha, of the PDP, was declared the winner for Isiala Ngwa federal constituency in the election held last Saturday.

  • Okorocha demands cancellation of polls in six LGs

    Okorocha demands cancellation of polls in six LGs

    Gov Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on Monday protested the outcome of elections in Imo, alleging the use of soldiers in the exercise.

    Okorocha told journalists in Owerri that soldiers freely molested and harassed innocent people and barred them from exercising their franchise.

    He further alleged that ballot boxes were snatched and two people shot at Amala in Ngor Okpala local government area and another in Owerri Municipal.

    According to him, one of the victims died while the other person was lying critical at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri.

    Okorocha described the election of Saturday as the “worst act of militarization of democracy’’.

    He said that what was witnessed in Imo was a far cry from the expectations of the people.

    He, therefore, called for the cancellation of elections in Ngor Okpala, Aboh Mbaise, Ehime Mbano, Isiala Mbano, Ohaji/Egbema and Oru East local governments, cliaming that no election held in the areas due to the lack of materials.

    Okorocha, however, denied assaulting any INEC official but trailed the commission’s convoy when he learnt that they killed two persons in a motor accident and made away with the corpses.

    NAN reports that the governor had earlier complained of the arrest and detention of his Senior Special Adviser, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, and the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Chidi Ibeh, during the elections.

  • PDP rejects election in three Edo LGs

    PDP rejects election in three Edo LGs

    The Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State Monday rejected results of general elections in three local governments where it lost the Presidential and National Assembly elections.

    It alleged that elections in Etsako West, Akoko Edo and Owan East local government areas were marred with irregularities.

    State Chairman of PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, said elections in the affected LGAs were marred by “multiple” and “underage voting.”

    Orbih noted that results showed “heavy mutilation,” coupled with cases of harassment by suspected thugs of the APC.

    He said, “The reports reaching us from these local governments shows clearly that the elections that were held in these three local governments were characterised by multiple voting and also we have reports of underage voters who were forced out to come and cast their votes.

    “From the result sheets received from these local governments, we have received very grave mutilation of result sheet and with several reported cases of harassment and intimidation even at the voting centres, by suspected thugs of APC.

    Orbih urged INEC to re-examine the results from the localities and said the party would file petition on the alleged allegations.

    “For us as a political party, we are going to reject the result declared in Etsako West, Akoko Edo and Owan East because of gross irregularities that have been observed in the conduct of the elections in these ‎local governments.”

  • APC clears presidential election in Gombe

    APC clears presidential election in Gombe

    The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has failed in the just concluded presidential election result announced in Gombe state, scoring 96,873 votes against the All Progressive Party (APC) 361,245.

    Professor Saminu Abdulrahman Ibrahim of ATBU, Bauchi announced the results at about 5:00pm Monday.

    A breakdown of the results indicates that the opposition won in eight out of the eleven local governments that make up the state.

    Saminu Abdulrahman Ibrahim, the collation officer said there were 1,110,105 total numbers of registered voters.

    He said there were a total of 460,599 valid votes out of which it recorded 473,444 total votes cast with 12,845 rejects.

    Meanwhile, the state capital has remained calm after the announcement of the result with people going about their normal activities unlike the wild reaction that greeted the 2011 elections results.

  • Rivers APC reject results of elections

    Rivers APC reject results of elections

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has rejected the results of Saturday’s fraudulent elections released Monday by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, Mrs. Gesila Khan.

    In the released results, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was declared winner of the election in Rivers by a wide margin, while all the Senatorial and House of Representatives’ seats in the state, according to Khan, also won by the PDP’s candidates, in spite of the non-availability of original result sheets during the elections.

    The Director of Communications of Rivers APC’s Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside’s Greater Together Campaign Organisation, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, declared that the released results were unacceptable, but asked the members of the party in the state to remain calm and law abiding.

    Semenitari said: “The REC of INEC in Rivers State, Mrs. Gesila Khan, has just engineered a rape of democracy in Rivers State. Mrs. Khan, who made no pretense as to her bias for the PDP, Monday denied the over one million APC voters in Rivers State their voice. This is not acceptable to us and we reiterate our call for the cancellation of all elections in Rivers State.

    “Mrs. Khan was kept abreast of all protests of the APC by its state party agent, Barr. Achinike William–Wobodo, whom her staff unceremoniously sent out of the collation centre on Saturday, March 28, 2015.

    “Besides the seven petitions before her (Rivers REC of INEC), written and signed by Barr. William-Wobodo, Mrs. Khan is aware that a petition from Rivers State is before the Chairman of INEC (Prof. Attahiru Jega) and he has announced investigations into the Rivers State case. The APC in Rivers State rejects in its totality, the false and misleading results presented by Mrs. Khan.”

    The Rivers APC’s governorship candidate’s director of communications, who doubles as the state’s Commissioner for Information and Communications, also expressed optimism that the results of the sham elections in Rivers would be cancelled, the REC removed and a new date for fresh polls announced by Jega, described as a man of integrity.

  • Presidential polls: PDP wins in Akwa Ibom

    Presidential polls: PDP wins in Akwa Ibom

    .APC rejects final result
    The final results of last Saturday’s presidential polls in Akwa Ibom State have been officially declared.

    The Returning Officer, Professor Ekpoke announced the final results about 2.30 pm Monday in the INEC Conference center in Uyo, the State capital.

    The returning officer gave the total number of registered voters in the state as 1,644,481 while the number accredited by INEC to vote in the elections stood 1,074,070.

    Parties and their scores as announced by the Returning Officer were: AA – 1,600, AD – 443, ACPN- 474, ADC- 608, APA- 384, APC- 58,411, CPP- 412, HDP- 194, KOWA- 160, NCP- 381, PDP- 953,304, PDM-327, UDP- 224 and UPP-144.

    The returning officer put the total number of valid votes cast in the polls at 1,027,064, total rejected votes at 11,487 while total votes cast stood at 1,028,551.

    The APC representative at the result announcement, Mr. Ekong Ebienang refused to sign the final result sheet.

    He said his Party refused to sign because the result was found to be fundamentally flawed right from the fields.

    He added that APC will take official position regarding the election and the result as announced.

    However, the State PDP Chairman, Obong Paul Ekpo who spoke at the end of the announcement thanked the Akwa Ibom people and indeed Nigerians for ensuring that the election was conducted in a peaceful atmosphere.

    He declared that the Presidential election was free and fair and the result as announced, a true reflection of the wishes of the people.

    On APC‘s allegation that the election was fundamentally flawed from the fields, Obong Paul Ekpo countered. He said:” I wonder why APC is making noise, the Party is non- existence in Akwa Ibom, they should rejoice that they had up to 50,000 votes.”

    Obong Ekpo further added that PDP in the State will investigate the results credited to APC because they are not suppose to have that much as the Party is not visible in Akwa Ibom.

    Also speaking, another PDP Chieftain and State Commissioner for Special Duties, Barr. Emmanuel Enoidem said the election went generally well though the Card Reader Machine brought in by INEC almost marred the process.

    He faulted INEC for bringing in the machine without adequate technological knowledge.

    Enoidem said he had challenges being accredited by the Card reader and this also affected a lot others.

    He cautioned INEC against using these faulty machines in the remaining elections so as not to cause serious problems for the people.

  • ‘Nigerians rejected decade of PDP misrule’

    ‘Nigerians rejected decade of PDP misrule’

    The Kogi State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Haddy Ametuo has attributed the victory of the presidential candidate of the party, General Muhammadu Buhari in the state to the more than a decade of bad governance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    Speaking in an interview with newsmen in Lokoja Monday, the he said the people of the state opted for change because they were tired of deception.

    He described the positive development as a revolution against the injustice that have pervaded the landscape under the PDP-led government since 1999, saying Nigerians deserve a better deal.

    He described General Buhari as a forthright politician who has the interest of the masses at heart, saying the down trodden strongly believe in his cause because of his sincerity.

    He described the winning of the three senatorial seats and six out of the nine House of Representative’s seats in the state as a brilliant, urging the loyalists and supporters of the party not to relent until the party convincingly wins the state legislative positions on April 11.

  • House of Reps election results in Niger State

    *Bida/Gbako/Katcha Fed Constituency

    APC – Moh’d Bala Faruk – 63,275 votes

    PDP – Engr. Moh’d Sharu – 22,974 votes
    *Bosso/Paikoro Fed. Constituency

    APC –  Salihu Shadafi – 59,256 votes
    PDP –  Abdullahi Kwatu – 16,938 votes
    *Kagara/Mashegu/Wushishi Fed Constituency
    APC -Abdullahi Idris Garba- 104,909 votes
    PDP – Kabiru Wushishi – 28, 28,599 votes

  • Buhari, APC sweeps Kebbi

    Buhari, APC sweeps Kebbi

    .As Jonathan loses in Tanimu’s, Bello’s wards
    .ex-Governor Aliero, 2 others APC candidates win Senatorial seats
    .APC wins all House of Reps slots

    The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen Muhammadu Buhari, has won the Kebbi State presidential election with a landslide.

    Buhari  emerged winner in all the 21 Local Government Areas of the state with a total votes of  567,883  out of the 677,003 total valid votes cast.

    The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost to Buhari with a total votes of 100,972.

    The APC for Kebbi North Dr. Yahaya Abdullahi polled 139,197 votes to defeat the Governor of the state, Saidu Usman Dakingari of the PDP who scored 70,148 votes, while Senator Adamu Aleiro garnered 216,084 to beat Abubakar Gari Mallam of the PDP who polled 68,792 ballots in the Kebbi Central Senatorial race.

    The APC candidate for Kebbi South, Bala Ibn Na’Allah also emerged victorious even as all the APC candidates for the House of Representatives won their elections.

    According to the Kebbi State Presidential Election Returning Officer and Deputy Vice Chancellor  (Administration), Utman Dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto, Prof. Mohammed Lawal Ahmadu, the total registered voters in the state are 1,457,763 out of which 792,818 were accredited to vote.

    Ahmadu said the put the votes received by political parties as: AA – 214, ACPN – 361, AD 450, ADC 472, APA 2,685, APC 567, 883,CPP 1,794, Hope 213, KOWA 448, NCP 519, PDP 100,97, PPN 547, UDP 207 and UPP 238.

    The total valid votes were 677,003 while the number of rejected votes stood at 38,119 bringing total number of votes cast to 715,123.

    It was observed that Jonathan lost woefully in the polling units and wards of his henchmen in the state.

    The Minister of Special Duties and deputy director-General of the PDP presidential campaign council, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki lost his Ward to the APC.

    In the polling unit Nasarawa I in Birnin-Kebbi where Turaki was accredited and voted APC scored 776 votes while the PDP trailed behind with a paltry 64 votes.

    Also, the former acting National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Haliru Mohammed Bello, lost his Nasarawa I polling unit to the APC.

    APC  scored 673 votes as against the 17 votes recorded by the PDP at the polling unit of the ex-Minister of Defence.

    Below is the number of votes won by the APC and PDP in each of the 21 local government of Kebbi State:

    Bunza LGA
    APC 27,357
    PDP 2,240

    Aliero LGA
    APC 16,211
    PDP 3,671

    Kalgo LGA
    APC 17,663
    PDP 2,042

    Argungu LGA
    APC 37,588
    PDP 2,510

    Augie LGA
    APC 25,790
    PDP 4,760

    Bagudo LGA
    APC 18,196
    PDP 6,636

    Fakai LGA
    APC 12,426
    PDP 3,947

    Jega LGA
    APC 44,219
    PDP 2,977

    Sakaba LGA
    APC 13,814
    PDP  2,898

    Koko/Besse LGA
    APC 25,530
    PDP 3,120

    Danko Wasagu LGA
    APC 28,758
    PDP 5,511

    Maiyama LGA
    APC 25,333
    PDP 5,300

    Shanga LGA
    APC 16,477
    PDP 8,342

    Suru LGA
    APC 29,366
    PDP 7,447

    Dandi LGA
    APC 27,931
    PDP 6,863

    Gwandu LGA
    APC 28,253
    PDP 2,887

    Nagaski LGA
    APC 21,929
    PDP 3,804

    Birnin-Kebbi LGA
    APC 74,440
    PDP 5,299

    Zuru LGA
    APC 22,469
    PDP 7,920

    Arewa LGA
    APC 31,849
    PDP 9,607

    Yauri LGA
    APC 22,284
    PDP 3,191

    Total registered voters: 1,457,763
    Total number of Accredited Voters: 792,817
    Votes received by political parties;

    AA – 214
    ACPN 361
    AD 450
    ADC 472
    APA 2,685
    APC 567, 883
    CPP 1,794
    Hope 213
    KOWA 448
    NCP 519
    PDP 100,972
    PPN 547
    UDP 207
    UPP 238

    Total valid votes 677,003
    Number of rejected votes 38,119
    Total votes cast 715,123