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  • Ganduje: Those doubting Kano presidential results are unserious

    Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje on Wednesday described those doubting the elections results from his state as unserious.

    From his state, President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had got the highest votes of 1,464,768 to defeat the People’s Democratic Party’s  (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar, who scored 391,593 from the state.

    While there were no incidences of violence in the state, seventeen local government areas were affected by election cancellation.

    Ganduje who was at the Aso Villa to congratulate President Buhari on his re-election, spoke with State House correspondents.

    Asked to react to those questioning the figures that came from Kano State, he said, “First of all, they are not serious people, they are people who are anti-democracy.

    “If you have seen how the elections were conducted I think everybody will agree that INEC tried very well. Even though there was low turnout of voters because we were expecting to get much more than that, but the election was fair and free.

    “Those who say we couldn’t have got that much are ignorant of the politics of Kano.” he added

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    According to him, the result of the Presidential and the National Assembly in the state has put the APC in good position to win the March 9th gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections.

    Asked why he did not deliver on the five million votes he promised, he said, “Well, I told you it’s because of the low turnout of voters but I promise you next time…let’s look towards the governorship election.”

    On his chances on the coming governorship election, Ganduje said “My chances are very high and you can see the beginning of it with the presidential elections. We gave Mr. President the highest number votes, all the three senators are back, 24 House of Representatives members out of 24 have succeeded. What else are you expecting? That is the foundation.

    “Another thing is that Mr. President has done a lot of work in Nigeria and in Kano and as a government we have done a lot in Kano State. If there was negative reaction we would have seen it from the presidential election.

    “That is why I say we are heading for a huge success in Kano both in the gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections.”

    On why he was in the Presidential Villa, the Kano governor said, “First of all we have to thank almighty God. I am here to expressed my happiness and congratulate Mr. President personally and to also thank all Nigerians for voting Mr. President for the second term, for voting the most honest person because he laid the foundation for the development of a new Nigeria, and a man who loves Nigeria more than himself, a man who believes in free and fair elections.

    “We are forging ahead in terms of getting the right thing done in Nigeria. So, I’m here to congratulate him personally before we come as a group from Kano to congratulate him.” he added

     

  • Breaking: Atiku rejects Buhari’s victory, heads to court

    The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has rejected the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23 presidential election.

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, Wednesday morning, declared President Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the election.

    But in a statement Wednesday entitled; Democracy Will Not Be Emasculated in Nigeria, Atiku said democracy was debased in the conduct of the elections.

    “Consequently, I hereby reject the result of the February 23, 2019 sham election and will be challenging it in court”, Atiku said.

    Stating his objection to the outcome of the election, as announced by INEC, Atiku said, “With regards to the presidential elections that took place on February 23, 2019, it is clear that there were manifest and premeditated malpractices in many states which negate the results announced.

    “One obvious red flag is the statistical impossibility of states ravaged by the war on terror generating much higher voter turnouts than peaceful states.

    “The suppressed votes in my strongholds are so apparent and amateurish, that I am ashamed as a Nigerian that such could be allowed to happen. How can total votes in Akwa-Ibom, for instance, be 50% less than what they were in 2015?

    “Another glaring anomaly is the disruption of voting in strongholds of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and diverse other states, with the authorities doing little or nothing and in some cases facilitating these unfortunate situations.

    “The militarization of the electoral process is a disservice to our democracy and a throwback to the jackboot era of military dictatorship. In some areas of the country, such as, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Imo states, troops deployed for the elections turned their guns on the very citizens they were meant to protect. This is condemnable and should not be associated with our electoral process in the future.

    “I am a democrat and there are democratic avenues available to present the truth to the nation and the watching world. Already, many international observers have given their verdicts, which corroborate our observations. I am sure more will come in the coming hours and days”.

    The PDP candidate said he would have called to congratulate President Buhari within seconds of being aware of his victory if he had lost in a free and fair election.

    He added that he had struggled over the years with his services to help unite Nigeria by being a bridge between the North and the South.

    Continuing, he said, “However, in my democratic struggles for the past three decades, I have never seen our democracy so debased as it was on Saturday, February 23, 2019.

    “2007 was a challenge, but President Yar’ Adua was remorseful. In 2019, it is sad to see those who trampled on democracy thumping their noses down on the Nigerian people.

    “I want to assure my supporters and the entire Nigerian people that together, we will not allow democracy to be emasculated.

    Read Also: ‘Bindow reduced Atiku’s margin in Adamawa’

    “I hope and pray Nigerians will someday summon the courage to defend democracy. That is the only way we can move away from being the world headquarters for extreme poverty”

    The PDP candidate thanked the Nigerian people who trooped out in their millions to perform their civic duty on Saturday.

    “The patriotism of Nigerians is heartwarming and affirms my oft-repeated statement that we are brothers and sisters born from the womb of one mother Nigeria”, he added.

  • PDP demands stoppage of collation of presidential election results by INEC

    . . .Seeks cancellation of results in Borno, Yobe, Zamfara

     

    The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded immediate halt to the ongoing collation of results of Saturday’s presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    The main opposition party said collation of results must be stopped until data from the smart card reader accreditation at the polling units are made available to all the parties in the election.

    At a media briefing in Abuja Tuesday, the Deputy Director General (Admin) of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr Tanimu Turaki SAN, the party cited manipulations, rigging and over-voting in some states by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    “The PDP predicates its demand on available evidence to the effect that data from the card readers are being reconfigured to suit the manipulations, rigging and over-voting already carried out during the election in some states by the All Progressives Congress (APC)”, Turaki said.

    Turaki added that the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus had already communicated the party’s position to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.

    “We have evidence from the smart card reader accreditation data that what is being announced by INEC has been seriously tampered with and manipulated”, Turaki said.

    The main opposition party also demanded the immediate and outright cancellation of results of the presidential election in Borno, Yobe, Zamafara and Nasarawa States, as submitted by INEC’s presiding officers. The PDP called for the conduct of fresh elections in the affected states.

    Continuing, the PDP chieftain said, “In Yobe, the total number of votes submitted as cast was more than the number of accredited voters. Whereas the number of accredited voters was 601, 056, the total votes cast was 775, 449.

    “This is a clear case of over-voting which, by the provisions of the Electoral Act, renders the election null and void. In such instance, the law provides for another election on a day to be fixed by INEC.

    Read Also: PDP rejects results in Kano

    “In Zamfara state, no actual voting took place and there was no single result sheet in any polling unit in the entire state. There was an arrest in Shinkafi Local Government, where an APC member was caught thump-printing ballot papers inside his house.

    “Results from the presiding officer from Zamfara were concocted and allocated according to the wishes of the leadership of the APC and INEC.

    “The PDP therefore demands the outright deletion of the results from Zamfara from INEC records and a conduct of free, fair and credible presidential election in Zamfara state.

    “Also in Borno state, there was no election but a figure writing exercise and allocation of results according to the whims and caprices of the APC leaders. We also demand the outright deletion of the results from Borno from INEC records and a conduct of free, fair and credible presidential election in Borno state.

    “In Nasarawa, the PDP demands the immediate restoration of our over 157, 000 lawful and valid votes which were unlawfully and arbitrarily cancelled by INEC and the announcement of the actual results from the field.

    “Similarly, the PDP demands an immediate restoration of our over 79, 000 valid votes which were unlawfully cancelled by INEC in Kogi state and the announcement of the authentic results inclusive of the restored 79,000 votes

    “In the FCT, the PDP demands the restoration of 27,000 valid votes unlawfully and arbitrarily cancelled by INEC and a declaration of the authentic result, inclusive of our restored 27,000 votes.

    “In Plateau, the PDP demands the immediate restoration of our over 30,000 lawful and valid votes, which were unlawfully cancelled particularly in Jos North and the declaration of the genuine results as delivered at the polling units inclusive of our 30,000 restored votes”.

    The PDP called on Nigerians to disregard the results until INEC provides the data from the smart card reader accreditation at the polling units, conducts fresh election in Borno, Yobe and Zamfara states as well as restore its votes in Plateau, FCT, Kogi and Nasarawa states.

    “The PDP maintains that from the actual votes delivered at the polling units, which we all have, Nigerians clearly and unequivocally gave their mandate to Atiku Abubakar”, Turaki declared.

  • ‘Bindow reduced Atiku’s margin in Adamawa’

    Adamawa State Governor Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow deliberately reduced the victory margin of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar on Saturday, his campaign council caucus has stated.

    The caucus said Atiku would have won Adamawa, his home state, with wider margin but for efforts of Bindow to facilitate the success of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress(APC).

    It said this is a fact that contradicts a falsehood being peddled by an individual to the effect that Bindow sold Buhari’s victory to Atiku.

    A statement in Yola Tuesday by the Secretary of the Caucus, Dr Umar Duhu, said: “Our attention has been drawn to the attack on the person of the Adamawa State Governor … by one Ambassador Aminu Iyawa on the just concluded Presidential election in the state.

    “In his spiteful misleading and mischievous postilation, Iyawa claimed Governor Bindow sold out the state for the PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to garner considerable votes at the polls and he further malignly pointed that Governor Bindow designed a plan to give Atiku an edge in the polls.

    “How can Iyawa even claim Governor Bindow has failed when he adequately cut down Atiku’s lead votes to 30, 000 in the state, Atiku’s own state.

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    “Does Iyawa not see what happened in Katsina? The big margin between President Buhari and Atiku? Why is Iyawa blaming a man who singularly ensured massive vote touch for President Buhari?

    “Therefore, we wish to categorically state that the analysis by Iyawa is only aimed at tarnishing the exalted image of His Excellency Governor Muhammad Umaru Jibrilla and this falsehood is mischievously orchestrated and fictitious.

    “It is a big surprise that such concocted story was circulated by someone who claims to love Adamawa State and the APC.

    “We therefore wish to stress that Governor Bindow is a core APC member, loyalist and an absolute believer in President Buhari and his ideals.

    “He is a political guide for all good citizens of Adamawa State and he is a gentleman politician per Excellency who will never indulge in any act of anti-party to the APC.

    “Governor Bindow has tremendous respect and regard for the President and the National Leadership of the APC and consequently, any plan or attempt to disrupt the resounding relationship existing between Mr. President, the Party Leadership and Governor Bindow will not only fail but, will definitely not see the light of  the day.”

  • Orhiomwon votes to decide Buhari, Atiku’s fate in Edo

    The presidential results from Orhiomwon local government is being expected to decide the fate of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State.

    Read Also: Atiku leads with 3,034 votes in Edo

    In the results released from 17 out of the 18 local government areas in Edo State, the PDP presidential candidate is leading with 261,640 votes while Buhari has polled 258,640 votes.

    The APC won the National Assembly election in Orhiomwon local government area.

  • Buhari beats Atiku in Lagos State

    President Muhammadu Buhari and Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has polled 580,825 votes to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of PDP in Lagos State.

    Buhari’s closest challenger, Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 448,015 to come second at the end of the state final collation of the Presidential election results from the 20 local government areas of the state.

    Prof. Felix Salako, the Vice Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun was the INEC state collation officer who collated results of the 20 LGAs.

    LGA collation officers properly presented the results one after the other as they arrived at the collation centre before they were accepted by Salako.

    At the end of the collation, Salako said the state had registered voters of 6,313,507, with accredited voters at 1, 196, 490.

    Read Also: Buhari defeats Atiku in Ogun

    According to him, the valid votes are 1,089,567, total rejected votes at 67,023 while votes cast stand at 1,157, 590 in the presidential election.

    Reeling out the results of each political parties, he said Accord polled 5, 948 votes, AAC, 8, 910; ADC, 2915; ADP, 1,262 and ANN polled 6,946.

    The professor added that APA had 1495 votes, DPP polled 1,372 votes, PCP got 8,458, and SNC scored 1766.

    The other political parties that participated in the poll had less than 1,000 votes each.

    According to him, Form 6OE will be pasted at the collation center after duly signed by the party agents.

  • Atiku wins Plateau with 548, 665 votes

    Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has won Saturday’s presidential election in Plateau after scoring 548,665 votes.

    Atiku defeated his closest opponent, Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 468, 555 votes.

    Prof. Richard Kimbir, the Collation Officer for the election in the state, declared the results on Monday in Jos.

    Kambir, who is the Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, said Atiku won in 11 local government areas to defeat Buhari who won in six LGAs of the state.

    Kambir announced the results scored by the two candidates in each local government area of the state as follows:

     

    Kanam

    APC: 51, 017

    PDP: 18, 331

     

    Wase

    APC : 35, 931

    PDP : 22, 809

     

    Jos North

    APC :93, 800

    PDP : 53, 277

     

    Mangu

    APC : 42, 947

    PDP: 48, 923

     

    Shendam

    APC : 38, 196

    PDP :24, 162

     

    Barkin Ladi

    APC : 15, 390

    PDP : 42, 138

     

    Bassa

    APC : 27, 632

    PDP : 34, 822

     

    Langtang North

    APC: 16, 665

    PDP: 34, 105

     

    Riyom

    APC : 8, 710

    PDP : 21, 892

     

    Bokkos

    APC 18, 328

    PDP : 32, 246

     

    Jos South

    APC : 25, 574

    PDP: 106, 526

     

    Qua’anpan

    APC : 20, 872

    PDP : 17, 479

     

    Lantang South

    APC 11, 224

    PDP : 18, 470

     

    Pankshin

    APC : 21, 609

    PDP: 30, 509

     

    Kanke

    APC 17, 946

    PDP : 22, 875

     

    Mikang

    APC: 10, 869

    PDP : 11, 262

     

    Jos East

    APC : 11, 847

    PDP: 8, 853.

     

    NAN

  • Atiku wins seven Rivers LGs

    The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has won in seven Local government Areas (LGAs) of Rivers state while the All Progressives Congress (APC), won in one.

    Results of eight of the 23 LGAs in the state have been collated by the returning officer for the state, Professor Aniefiong Essien, Vice Chancellor, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom state in the company of the state Independent National Electoral commissioner(INEC), Dr. Effanga Obot and security chiefs.

    The exercise was conducted in INEC office in Port Harcourt the state capital on Sunday night.

    The LGAs: are Oyibo, Omuma, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Obio/Akpor, Eleme, and Gokana and Etche while APC won in Asari-toru LGA.

    The results presented to Prof. Essien by the LGA collation Officers and the Electoral Officer(EO) showed the PDP won in Oyigbo with a total of 16,102 votes while the All Progressives congress(APC) scored 3, 520 votes.

    It was further revealed that a total of 109, 095 voters were registered and 22, 787 accredited.

    At the end of the poll, 20, 087 votes were validated, 1, 102 were

    In Asari-toru area, President Muhammadu Buhari scored overwhelming 18, 180 leaving Atiku with 3, 175 votes.

    It was however reported that election took place in 10 out of the 13 wards in the areas while election did not hold in three wards.

    In Governor Nyesom Wike’s Obio/Akpor LGA, a total of 600, 622 voters were registered for the polls but 81, 562 only accredited.

    Atiku won with a total of 69, 981 leaving Buhari with 6, 875.

    However elections in four of the 17 wards were reportedly cancelled for various reasons, especially in Rukpokwu, Choba and two other wards.

    In Senator Magnus Abe’s Gokana LGA, Atiku won with 10, 276 while Buhari secured 9, 328.

    More of the results are expected to be ready later today for collation before the result would be finally announced in Port Harcourt.

  • PDP plotting to declare Atiku winner of election

    The APC Presidential Campaign Council has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and the relevant security agencies to immediately activate the provisions of the law on non-official declaration of results, saying the PDP and its agents have completed plans declare Atiku Abubakar as the winner of Saturday Presidential election without waiting for INEC.

    The council, in a statement signed by its spokesman, Festus Keyamo that the plan of the opposition is to create confusion leading to pockets of protests by hired thugs across the country in other to attract the sympathy of the international community.

    Keyamo said as part of the plot, a video recording has already been made by one of the PDP campaign spokespersons, Buba Galadima announcing Atiku as the winner of the election.

    While calling for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Buba Galadima, adding that the world is watching and waiting on Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to say something on the video by Alhaji Buba Galadima.

    The statement reads: “Devastated by authentic results filtering out of polling units nationwide, our usual sources within the camp of the PDP have informed us that an emergency meeting of the main opposition party has been summoned for today somewhere in Abuja.

    “Top on the agenda of the PDP is to activate the last strand of their Dubai strategies that have since collapsed like a pack of cards: they plan to release fake results of the Presidential Election later today or early Monday morning that they claim to have compiled themselves.

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    “Our information is that they aim to create crises and confusion that will lead to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar claiming victory in a day or two from today ahead of the official announcement of the results by INEC. Then, what would follow will be some carefully choreographed protests by pockets of hoodlums in some parts of the country. The ultimate aim is to curry the sympathy of our foreign friends and push us to the Venezuela situation.

    “Our call is therefore to INEC, NIGERIA BROADCASTING COMMISSION and all law-enforcement agencies to continually warn the PDP and all their surrogates like the amorphous CUPP and their likes that anyone who flouts the law on announcement of official results will be made to face the law. Opposition does not confer immunity on anyone to flout the law.

    “In preparation for this reckless move, some PDP social media agents are already flying some kites on-line as to the number of States allegedly ‘won’ by PDP. In fact, Alhaji Buba Galadima, an official spokesperson for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has made a short video announcing PDP as the ‘winner’ of the Presidential Election.

    “As an official spokesperson, he is clearly acting on behalf of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and on his instruction. We, therefore call for the immediate arrest, interrogation and prosecution of Alhaji Buba Galadima in this regard. The world is watching and waiting on Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to say something on the video by Alhaji Buba Galadima.

    “Consequently, we urge all well-meaning Nigerians, the International Community and even reasonable members of the Opposition not to be bought by these cheap antics of the PDP. Let’s restrain our wards from being used by these unscrupulous elements. Nigeria will continue to exist after this election.

    “Over the years, the PDP had been declared ‘winner’ of Presidential elections under controversial circumstances. On those occasions, President Muhammadu Buhari never took laws into his hands and declared himself President. He also never declared parallel results. He availed himself of constitutional means to address his grievance by approaching the law courts.

    “Their latest devilish plot against the country is a clear indication that their apology to the Nigerian people was just a hoax. They have learnt nothing and they have forgotten nothing as they just cannot win any election fair and square.”

     

  • Buhari wins in Kwankwaso’s constituency

    The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari has defeated that of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State, as Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso failed to deliver his Madobi constituency to Atiku.

    The returning officer for the Local Government, Dr. Mohammed Murtala announced this on Sunday during the collation of result from across all the words in the area.

    According to Murtala, the APC Presidential candidate has scored 19,984 while that of the PDP scored 7,732 votes.

    Also, the returning officer announced that the APC candidate for the Kano North Senatorial Zone, has scored 16,794, while that of the PDP scored 10,746 and that of PRP got 397 votes.

    Read Also: Kwankwaso, Ganduje in fierce political battle

    Similarly, the returning officer for the Presidential election from Garun Malam Local Government Area, Prof. Dahiru Sani-Shuaibu said the APC candidate had scored 23,810 while the PDP scored 4,861 votes.

    Also, the returning officer for the Senate and House of Representatives from the Local Government, Dr. Umar Abbas said the APC Senatorial candidate for Kano South Senatorial Zone scored 18,412 while that of PDP scored 8,548 votes.

    Abbas further announced that the APC candidate for the House of Representatives scored 18,029 while the PDP candidate scored 8,262 votes.

    Also,the returning officer, for the Presidential election from Madobi local Government Area,Dr Sani Umar,where senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso hailed fromsaid the APC candidate scored 26,110,while PDP got 13,113 votes.

    Umar, announced that the APC candidate for the senate,scored 22,331,while PDP got 15,913.

    He also announced that APC candidate for the House of Representatives scored 22,100,while PDP got 15,925,as PRP secured 982.