The All Progressives Congress (APC) has defeated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the presidential election in Gombe State.
It polled 361,245 votes against PDP’s 96,873 votes.
Prof. Saminu Abdulrahman Ibrahim of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, announced the results about 5 pm yesterday.
A breakdown of the results showed that APC won in eight of the 11 local governments.
THE Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded the cancellation of last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the state, following what the party described as widespread irregularities.
Its Chairman, Chief Tiwei Timipa Orunimighe, in a statement yesterday, described the elections as heavily compromised, saying they were characterised by intimidation of voters and arrests of APC members and agents.
He alleged that INEC and armed security forces colluded with PDP to massively rig the elections, alluding to late arrival of electoral materials and deliberate refusal to use the card readers.
Orunimighe said in almost all the eight local government councils, with the exception of Ogbia, electoral materials arrived at the earliest at about 3pm on voting day.
The statement added that when the officials and materials arrived, the use of card readers was abandoned, even where there was no proof that they were bad.
The statement also reads: “The INEC officials claimed to have received the following SMS from their headquarters: ‘My dear EOs, Pls you have been enjoined to use Manual Register for accreditation of voters. Be wise!’
“Once this message was circulated, it set the stage for PDP to manipulate the process with the collusion of INEC and the security agents.
“Specifically, our party agents were intimidated and voters scared away by gunshots fired by the armed and security forces. In Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Tariprebo Moses Aketi, APC candidate for KOLGA Constituency 1, and Campaign Manager, Imomoemi Odiowei, were arrested.
“In Nembe Local Government Area, Mini and Ikensi Wards, soldiers using two new gunboats chased out APC agents, seized all the electoral materials and took them to the residence of a former Speaker.
“In the same local government, results of four units in Oluasiri Ward 13 were hijacked by men in police uniform. In Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Ward 17, electoral materials were taken to the houses of PDP chieftains and collated after agents of others political parties were chased away by security agents.
“In Brass Local Government Area, our party men saw one PDP agent openly thumb-printing over 100 ballot papers for his party.”
The party added: “Based on these irregularities, whatever results emanate from last Saturday’s polls in Bayelsa State cannot be said to represent the will of the people of the state. “The APC, therefore, calls on the INEC to cancel the presidential and National Assembly polls in Bayelsa State, and reschedule same for a new date.”
Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the three senatorial districts of Oyo State have been declared winners of Saturday’s National Assembly election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The APC’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, defeated his main rival, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He polled 528,620 votes to Jonathan’s 303,376 votes.
The APC candidate defeated the incumbent in 27 local governments; Jonathan won in Itesiwaju, Ogbomoso North, Ogbomoso South, Oriire, Surulere and Ogo-Oluwa councils.
All the newly elected are first time senators. They defeated senators Femi Lanlehin (Accord), Hosea Agboola (PDP) and Ayo Adeseun (PDP).
In Oyo Central Senatorial District, Mrs. Monsurat Sunmonu scored 105,378 to defeat Chief Bisi Ilaka of Accord, who polled 84,675 votes.
Following are candidates of the PDP, Labour Party (LP) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
In Oyo North, Fatai Buhari scored 104,056 to defeat his closest rival, Tajudeen Kareem (LP), who polled 75,469. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Accord candidates trailed them.
In Oyo South, Soji Akanbi scored 147,583 to beat Lanlehin (Accord), who polled 93,256 votes. They were trailed by Mrs. Lanre Otiti (PDP), 47,152; Nurudeen Akinyo (LP), 28,993 and SDP candidate, 11,541.
Only four serving members of the House of Representatives retained their seats. They are Abiodun Awoleye (APC), Saheed Fijabi (APC), Sunday Adepoju (APC) and Olusegun Odebunmi (PDP).
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won two senatorial seats in Nasarawa State.
The incumbent senator, Abdullahi Adamu, representing Nasarawa West, polled 92, 804 votes to return to the Senate.
He defeated former House of Representatives member and the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) candidate, Ahmed Wadada, who polled 88, 214 votes.
Mohammed Abdullahi, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC Returning officer in Nasarawa West made the declaration at the Collation Centre in Keffi, Keffi Local Government.
He said: “By the power conferred on me by the Electoral Act, I hereby declare Abdullahi Adamu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 92,804 to defeat his closest opponent, Ahmed Wadada of the PDP, who polled 88,214.”
In Nasarawa South, the APC candidate, Salihu Egebola, defeated the incumbent and the PDP’s candidate, Mr. Suleiman Adokwe.
ONE of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidates in Bauchi State, Isa Hamman Misau, has stopped Senate Leader Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi’s bid to return to the Senate.
The Collation Officer for the Bauchi Central, Dr. Mohammed Salisu Yakubu, while declaring the results yesterday evening, said Misau scored 208, 741 votes while Senator Ningi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 57, 172 votes.
The results of the Bauchi North Senatorial zone showed that Senator Nazif Suleman Gamawa defeated Alhaji Faruq Mustapha of the PDP to secure the Senate seat.
The INEC Collation Officer for the Bauchi North election, Dr. Muhammed Adamu, who declared the result in Azare, headquarters of the senatorial headquarters yesterday at about 7.40pm, said Gamawa polled 197, 919 votes, to beat Mustapha, who scored 97,047 votes.
Also, Ahmed Yerima of the APC, who contested for the Misau/Dambam Federal Constituency, scored 59,359 votes to emerge winner.
INEC Returning Officer Dr. Abdullahi Abdulhamid announced that Yerima defeated the candidates of the PDP, Abdullahi Gwaram, and Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) Ibrahim Makama, who scored 13,153 and 2,457.
Also yesterday, Alhaji Ibrahim Muhammed-Baba of the APC won the Katagum Federal Constituency House of Representatives election.
Returning Officer for the House of Representatives election in the constituency, Darazo/Ganjuwa, Mohammed Mohammed, declared in Azare that Muhammed-Baba of the APC polled 38,151 votes, to win his opponent, Alhaji Auwalu Gwalabe of the PDP, who scored 23,535 votes.
The INEC Returning Officer for Darazo/Ganjuwa Dr. Sabo Hamma has declared that APC candidate Haliru Jika scored 78,243 votes to beat PDP candidate Mustapha Hassan to win the Darazo/Ganjuwa Federal Constituency seat.
The All Progressives Congress candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari is ahead of President Goodluck Jonathan in the presidential election result so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday night.
Out of the 19 states announced at about 11pm Monday, Buhari maintained the lead with 10 states while Jonathan topped in 9 states.
The margin between APC and PDP is over 2 million votes. The collation will continue on Tuesday as INEC reconvenes by 10am.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation said it would accept the announcement of only results of Saturday’s elections which reflected the will of Nigerians.
Director of Media and Publicity of the organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, stated this at a news conference on Monday in Abuja.
He said that any attempt to manipulate figures or to rig the PDP out, from any quarter, would be ‘firmly resisted’.
He claimed that President Goodluck Jonathan, the PDP`s presidential candidate in the election was ahead in available results of the polls with at least two million votes.
This, he said was according to the figures made available to the party by its polling agents across the country.
“We have our own situation room and we have collated all our figures from the various polling booths, wards, local government areas and states in the Federation.
“In spite of the propaganda of the opposition, we are confident of victory,” Fani-Kayode said.
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.
SDP: 23,650 (Abubarkar Momoh)
.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.