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  • APC worried over delays in releasing results in SE, SS

    APC worried over delays in releasing results in SE, SS

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the delay in releasing the results of last weekend’s elections in the South-East and the South-South gives room for concern, against the background of the results that are streaming in from other parts of the country.

    In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said apart from Rivers and Akwa Ibom, where everyone knows what the situation is, there has been nothing but silence from the remaining states as far as the results are concerned.

    It said many concerned Nigerians have called the party to express their concern over the delay, and to share their concerns on whether something sinister is behind the palpable silence.

    ”The fact that most of the South-East and the South-South resorted to manual accreditation instead of being patient for the card readers has raised real fears on the possible manipulation of the results. It is common knowledge that manual accreditation makes the voting process more susceptible to rigging and manipulation,” APC said.

    The party described as very curious the fact that the card readers largely functioned well in other parts of the country, except in the South-East and the South-South, wondering whether this was a mere coincidence.

    ”Also, credible reports emanating from most of the South-East and the South-South indicate that APC agents have either been harassed, intimidated or chased away from results collation centres, the same treatment they (APC agents) have been subjected to in Adamawa and Taraba States.

    ”Against this background, we are demanding that our agents in all the affected states be given unfettered access to the result collation centres, and that they must also be allowed to scrutinize any result emanating from there for it to be credible,” it said.

    APC renewed its earlier warning that no one should circumvent the will of the people for whatever reason and that only the authentic results of the elections will be acceptable to Nigerians.

    The party appealed to its concerned members and supporters to be calm and to continue to eschew violence, assuring that in the end, the will of the good people of Nigeria – which they have freely expressed by turning out in large numbers to exercise their franchise – will prevail.

  • Results of presidential election in Sokoto State

    Results of presidential election in Sokoto State

    Collation Officer, Prof Abdul Bagudu presided over the announcement of  the result by officers of each  Local Government Area at the INEC Sokoto State Collation Centre for Presidential Election in Sultan Muhammadu Maccido Institute for Kor’ and General Studies, Sokoto last night.

    The results were as follows:

    In Kware LGA: APC polled 25,286 as PDP recorded 5,339 votes.

    According to him, PDP agents refused to sign, although Nigerian Security and Civil Defefence Corps (NSCDC) collected its copy.
    In Dange Shumi LGA the APC polled 31,036 while scored PDP 6,918.

    In Guronyo LGA: APC scored 28,950 while PDP scored 7,664.

    The only party agent that signed was APC as the PDP agent refused to sign.

  • APC wins Jigawa north-east senatorial seat

    Alhaji Ubali Shitu of All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged winner of the Jigawa north-east senatorial election.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shitu won the election by defeating two other candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM).

    Declaring the result, the Returning Officer, Prof. Adamu Usman, said Shitu scored 193,960 votes to win the election.

    Usman said that Alhaji Ahmad Sarawa of the PDP polled 97,196 votes while Alhaji Ahmed Kaugama of the PDM scored 1,266 votes.

    “The APC candidate scored the highest votes and returned elected in accordance with provisions of the Electoral Act.’’

    NAN reports that Sarawa is the current Speaker of the Jigawa State House of Assembly.

    The Jigawa north-east senatorial zone comprises eight local government areas including Auya, Birniwa and Guri, Kafin-Hausa, Kaugama, Kirikasamma, Malammadori and Hadejia

  • Deputy Minority Whip retains Katsina South senatorial seat

    Deputy Minority Whip, Abu Ibrahim (APC-Katsina), has been reelected for Katsina South senatorial seat.

    He defeated Deputy Governor Abdullahi Garba of Katsina State of the PDP with 100,364 votes to 409,642 votes.

    Announcing the result in Funtua on Monday, the Returning Officer, Prof. Hamza Mani, said 990,459 voters registered in the 11 local government areas of the zone while 590, 606 were accredited and 533, 726 voted in the 2015 election.

    Meanwhile, former Chairman, Funtua Local Government Area and one time federal lawmaker, Alhaji Muntari Dandutse, was declared winner of Funtua/Dandume Federal constituency election on the platform of APC.

    The Returning Officer, Hajia Bilkisu Shattima, returned Dandutse with 80,991 votes to defeat PDP’s candidate, Alhaji Abdulaziz Tijjani, who scored 9,253 votes.

    Incumbent member representing Bakori/Danja federal constituency, Alhaji Amiru Tukur of the APC, won with 75,402 votes.

    He defeated PDP’s candidate and former Director, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Alhaji Ibrahim Ajiya, who obtained 24,930 votes.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Alhaji Ibrahim Mahuta of the APC and the incumbent lawmaker representing Malumfashi/Kafur federal constituency also  retained his seat with 103, 422 votes.

    He defeated the PDP candidate and former General Manager, Katsina State Television, Alhaji Abdulaziz Sanyari who scored 26,263 votes.

    Alhaji Ibrahim Murtala of the APC defeated former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Education, Dr Garba Matazu, of the PDP to win the Musawa/Matazu Federal constituency seat.

  • PDP leads in six LGA in Nasarawa

    The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan is leading in six Local Government according to the results announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital.

    The party, as at the time of filing this report has won six local government out of the 13 LGA in the state.

    The APC has won three.

    The results from the LGAs are :

    Akwanga LGA

    APC 10, 823

    PDP 15, 992

    Wamba LGA

    APC 12, 958

    PDP 8, 353

    Keffi LGA

    PDP 9, 735

    APC 26, 796

    Awe LGA

    Apc 13, 855

    PDP, 9, 964

    Nasarawa Eggon LGA

    APC 7, 574

    PDP 44, 825

    Obi LGA

    APC 12, 543

    PDP 22, 693

    Keana LGA

    APC 7, 515

    PDP 8, 813

    Kokona LGA

    APC 14, 500

    PDP 23, 682

    Doma LGA

    APC 12, 903

    PDP 19, 178

     

  • Ondo: Tension over alleged plan to manipulate election results

    There is anxiety in Ondo State over the delay on the final announcement of result of the last saturday election result by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr. Segun Agbaje.

    Although some returning officers had announced the results in some senatorial districts, but that of Ondo central where Governor Olusegun Mimiko hails from has not been announced or brought to the collation centre.

    Journalists who had besieged the collation centre at St Peter’s College, Akure since around 8.00 a.m had to leave, while no action was going on at INEC office, Alagbaka as at press time.

    Because of the new technology results in the Ondo Central had been on the social media in favour of one of the political parties.

    However, sources said the results in the central district were allegedly been doctored by somewhere in Akure which forced the state chairman of the APC to go on air, warning against such manipulation.

    Some Results for the Presidential and National Assembly elections across the 18 local government areas of Ondo State have been trickling in.

    The results released so far, showed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is currently leading in the state.

    According to returning officer of the Ondo northern senatorial district, Prof. Sylvester Oluwadare announced Senator Ajayi Boroffice as the winner.

    Borrofice was returned elected as he polled 102,843 votes against Dr. Bode Olajumoke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 76751 votes.

    For Akoko Northeast/Northwest, Babatunde Kolawole of the APC won. Similarly, Friday Olemija of the APC was declared winner for Akoko Southeast/Southwest federal constituency.

    Also, the APC Candidate for Owo/Ose federal constituency, Bar. Bode Ayorinde, who is the pro-chancellor of Achiever Private University, Owo has been declared as the winner of the poll.

    In the result announced by the Returning Officer, Dr. Johnson Fasinminrin, Ayorinde won the poll with 36,204 votes, while PDP candidate, Mrs. Folasade Tinubu pulled 28074.

    APC Presidential Candidate, Buhari had landslide victory in Odigbo local government with 18,655 votes, while PDP got 9,315. AP Senatorial candidate, Morayo Lebi scored 18,561, while PDP flagbearer, Yele Omogunwa pulled 19,796 votes in the same state.

    In Ifedore local government where the current State Chairman of PDP, Engr. Clement Faboyede hails from, Buhari scored 13,459 votes, while Jonathan has 8031 votes. APC Senatorial candidate in the Ondo Central also pulled 12284 votes, while the incumbent Senator representing the district, Ayo Akinyelure has 8479 votes.

    In Irele local government where the two Senatorial Candidates of PDP and APC hail from, APC scored, 8,654 votes, PDP, 13,079 votes. In the same local council.

    Buhari polled 9,969 votes, while PDP Presidential Candidate scored 11,639 votes. APC House of Representatives candidate, Oluwole Akinmoyero has 8,933, while Omogbehin of PDP got 11,869 votes.

    As at press time, many of the results from the ward levels have been collated in the various collating centres across the local governments.

    Though, INEC returning officers are yet to announce the result for Akure South and North local governments but our correspondents who visited majority of the units during the voting reported that APC is lead in the majority of the polling units.

    In Idanre local government Presidential election result, APC scored 12,654, PDP has 12,290. The senate result, APC pulled 10n 102, while PDP got 14,374.

    In the Ifedore/Idanre federal constituency, APC candidate won with 21,404 votes, while PDP candidate Engr. Osakuade got 20,754 votes.

    In Ondo South Senatorial District, collation was still going on, but information had it that some supporters of a political party hijacked some ballot boxes and escaped through the water ways in Igbokoda, headquarters of ilaje local government.

    Other party agents at the centre maintained that they would not endorse the result sheet of that area.

  • APC in clear lead in Borno state

    The presidential results in 16 local government areas of Borno state have been released by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC).

    The results indicate a sound victory for the All progressive Congress (APC) in all the sixteen local government so far announced at the commissions premises in Maiduguri.

    Below is the results released:

    Marte     APC 426, PDP 742

    Kala Balge APC 1766, PDP 98

    Askira Uba APC, 5220 PDP, 1308

    Ngala APC 2764, PDP 241

    Kukuwa APC 5662, PDP 230

    Mobbar APC 4487, PDP 108

    Abadam APC 2657, PDP 70

    Ngazai APC, 3521, PDP 211

    Kaga APC 6133 PDP 202

    Mafa APC 7140, PDP 178

    Dikwa APC 3031, PDP 114

    Gwoza APC 15702, PDP 1414

    Gubio APC 6481 PDP 306

    Munguno APC 5461, PDP 181

    Bama APC 11133 PDP 193

    Guzamala APC 2720 PDP 397

    Meanwhile the Secretary to the Borno State Government Amb. Baba Jida told reporters at the collation center that the performance of the party at the Saturday’s presidential elections has exceeded the expectations of many, adding that the party is cruising to victory.

    “In view of the constraints faced by Borno, we feel that the people have done well to exercise their right to vote. Under the circumstance that our people have found themselves, we have done very well.

    “From what we have, the APC have approximately 95 per cent while the PDP have slightly 5 per cent. The turnout is not very good and it should be expected. By the time the result from southern Borno and that of Jere and MMC come in it may improve the figures we have. People are happy to participate in the election.

    “The APC is cruising to landslide victory. We have done better than we thought. I am sure our opponents are struggling to get maybe just 25 per cent in Borno state but from the look of things, they are not likely to get more than 10 per cent,” Amb. Baba Jida said.

     

  • ‘Voting’ enters second day in Otuoke’

    ‘Voting’ enters second day in Otuoke’

    Electoral officers Sunday claimed that results in President Goodluck Jonathan’s unit were not announced on Saturday because voting was not concluded.

    They claimed that voting would continue Sunday, but no queues were seen when our correspondent visited the Dame Patience Jonathan Square which had three polling units (17, 18 and 40).

    Unit 39, Ward 13, where the president and his wife Patience voted, was deserted Sunday.

    No result from the unit was pasted there.

    Electoral officers who manned the president’s unit had changed location and were seen at the Square Sunday.

    On Saturday, voting continued till about 8pm at the president’s unit, but no result was announced.

    When the last person on the queue voted, the electoral officer announced that counting would begin, but a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) agent who gave her name as S. Otazi, complained that several people were yet to vote.

    The electoral officer then stopped the counting and returned the ballot papers to the boxes.

    At about 8.30pm, the electoral officer said the unit, in front of President Jonathan’s country home, was becoming unsafe and that they were relocating to a “safer place”.

    She and other polling officials packed the voting materials and were driven away.

    When our correspondent contacted Mrs. Otazi on phone by 10: 59pm on Saturday, she confirmed that results had not been announced.

    She said: “You’re calling this night, you haven’t slept?” When asked if the result had been announced, she said: “It has not been announced”.

    Asked if it could still be announced before midnight on Saturday, she said: “I don’t know. Thank you.”

    An ad-hoc staff, when asked on phone at 11.49pm if the result had been announced, said: “I heard that there has been an announcement that voting continues tomorrow (yesterday).

    “I understand they extended the voting because some people were ‘unable’ to vote. We’ll go back to the polling unit in the morning, we’ll be there,” he said.

    Yesterday, no electoral officer was at the unit where the President voted. Other units nearby were empty in the morning when our correspondent checked them.

    However, the electoral officers, made up mainly of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members, later gathered at the Dame Patience Square.

    Our correspondent spent about 30 minutes at the square but saw no one come to vote although ballot boxes were on display. There were no electoral observers present.

    Two of the electoral officers approached our correspondent and sought to know who he was and what he was doing.

    When told he was a journalist, the male officer said: “You can’t be here. There’s supposed to be restriction of movement. You’re only supposed to be here if you wish to vote. The result may not be announced here. Your presence here is making them uncomfortable.

    “You had better leave before they begin to think you’re an agent of the opposition.”

    The lady glared at our correspondent and narrowed her eyes to see what he was doing with his smartphone.

    The electoral officers were still at the Dame Patience Jonathan Square at about 4pm when our correspondent left. Policemen were also there.

    When contacted on phone, INEC’s spokesman in Bayelsa Mr. Timidi Wariowei, said he was not aware that results had not been announced in Otuoke.

    He also started questioning our correspondent when told that electoral officers claimed that voting was still going on.

    He said: “There were some polling units that election did not hold Saturday, and a few units where election is going on, but it’s not a continuation of Saturday.”

    When told that electoral officers were still in Otuoke, he sounded agitated, saying: “You’re saying you didn’t see anybody voting, and you said election was going on. Please I don’t like this kind of story.” And he hung up.

    A text message was sent asking him to confirm if results from the units in Otuoke had been announced, but Wariowei did not respond as at the time of filing this report.

     

  • PDP wins three Senate, six Reps seat in Ekiti

    The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) grabbed all the National Assembly seats in Ekiti State from the results declared by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC).

    The PDP won all the three senatorial districts and five of the six federal constituencies declared on Sunday in an official result released by the electoral agency in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

    The implication of the result is that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not have any representative in the National Assembly in the next legislative dispensation expected to run from June 2015 to June 2019.

    Two serving senators, Olubunmi Adetunmbi and Anthony Adeniyi, who are APC candidates for Ekiti North and Ekiti South respectively, lost their re-election bid to PDP candidates.

    PDP senatorial candidate for Ekiti North and former House of Representatives member, Duro Faseyi, polled 50, 023 votes to beat Adetunmbi who garnered 35, 376 votes.

    Former Deputy Governor, Mrs. Abiodun Olujimi, clinched the Ekiti South senatorial seat by defeating Adeniyi. She scored 62, 344votes while Adeniyi could only muster 37, 932 votes.

    Another former House of Representatives member and PDP candidate in Ekiti Central, Mrs. Fatimat Rasaki polled 54, 459 votes to beat APC candidate, Gbenga Olofin who obtained 41, 607 votes.

    In the House of Representatives poll, five APC candidates lost their bid to return to their seats in the Green Chamber.

    Chairman, House Committee on Communications, Oyetunde Ojo, lost to PDP candidate, Olumide Oni in Ijero/Ekiti West/Efon Federal Constituency.

    Oni scored 27, 658 votes to win the seat leaving APC candidate, Ojo with 20, 083.

    House Committee Vice Chairman on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Bimbo Daramola’s 17, 768 votes was not enough to win him a re-election as he lost to PDP candidate, Kehinde Agboola, who scored 24, 129 in Oye/Ikole Federal Constituency.

    Another serving federal lawmaker who lost his seat at the poll was the member representing Ido-Osi/Moba/Ilejemeje Federal Constituency who flew the APC flag at the poll, Robinson Ajiboye, who lost to PDP’s Thaddeus Aina.

    Aina, former Ido-Osi council chairman, polled 23, 585 votes to beat Ajiboye who scored 15, 834.

    PDP candidate, Akin Awodumila, beat the lawmaker representing Emure/Gbonyin/Ekiti East Federal Constituency and APC candidate, Bamidele Faparusi, by polling 25, 648 votes while Faparusi obtained 17, 437 votes.

    Incumbent House member representing Ekiti Southwest/Ikere/Ise-Orun Federal Constituency and APC candidate, Dr. Ife Arowosoge lost to PDP candidate, Segun Adekola at Saturday’s election.

    Adekola won the seat by polling 33,288 votes leaving Arowosoge with 19, 432 votes.

    The last House of Reps seat in contention was that of Ado/Irepodun-Ifelodun Federal Constituency where PDP candidate, Ayotunde Oladimeji defeated APC candidate and former Commissioner for Education, Dr. Eniola Ajayi.

    Oladimeji polled 35,494 votes to beat Dr. Ajayi who received 17, 768 at the polls.

  • Buhari ahead in Oyo

    The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is leading across Oyo State in the ongoing announcement of results of the election in the 33 local government areas of the state.

    He beat his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Goodluck Jonathan, in the results of 14 out of 15 local governments so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state.

    Aside beating Jonathan in Ona-Ara, the local government of the PDP’s governorship candidate, Sen. Teslim Folarin, and Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Jumoke Akinjide by over 5,000 votes, Buhari is coasting to victory with similar wide gaps in 13 other councils announced.

    The councils are ATISBO, Saki East, Iwajowa, Oyo West, Ibarapa East, Atiba, Iddo, Oluyole and Kajola.

    Others are AFIJIO, Oorelope and Irepo and Iseyin. But Jonathan won with 400 votes in Itesiwaju Local Government, where the current senator representing Oyo North District, Hosea Agboola, hails from.

    Results of the senatorial election was yet to be announced as at press time.