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  • Lagos APC primaries: Tinubu, Adeola win, Ashafa loses

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) Electoral Committee of the National Assembly and State House of Assembly primaries in Lagos on Saturday officially released the results of the elections.

    The primaries, including a repeat of the senatorial primary election, were held on Friday.

    The senatorial primaries initially held on Thursday, but were cancelled and rescheduled owing to logistic issues.

    Announcing the results in Ikeja, Chairman of the committee, Mr Lucky Imasuen, said the primaries were contested for the three senatorial seats, 24 House of Representatives and 40 state House of Assembly seats .

    For the results of the senatorial primaries, Imasuen said Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, who was unopposed, polled 89,494 votes to emerge as candidate for Lagos Central.

    For Lagos West, the committee chairman said the incumbent, Sen. Olamilekan Solomon emerged winner with 378,906 votes, as against the 1,179 votes scored by Mr Kayode Opeifa and Mrs. Areago Olopade’s 1,275 votes.

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    Imasuen, a former Deputy Governor of Edo State, added that a member of the state House of Assembly, Mr . Bayo Osinowo defeated the incumbent Sen. Gbenga Ashafa with 247,743 votes to emerge candidate for the Lagos East Senatorial district.

    He disclosed that Ashafa, the incumbent, polled 20,385 in the primary.

    Imasuen said the details of the House of Representatives and state House of Assembly primaries results were ready and that they would be released later.

    He described the exercise as peaceful and successful.

    “The primaries were peaceful and successful.

    “We thank the state chapter led by Tunde Balogun for the support for the committee.

    “We also thank all other stakeholders including all members of our party in the state for making the conduct a success,” he said.

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  • NFF Electoral Committee rolls out timetable

    Aspirants for seats on the Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) can get ready as the sale of forms will begin on Monday, 21st May 2018.

    At a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the NFF Electoral Committee headed by Barrister Mohammed Sani Katu, disclosed that sale of forms, endorsements and return of the forms will hold between Monday, 21st May and Monday, 4th June – a duration of two weeks. This is as far as the process will go before the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup finals, at which Nigeria’s Super Eagles team is one of the 32 participating teams.

    Screening of candidates will take place on Thursday, 19th July and Saturday, 21st July 2018 – after the FIFA World Cup finals. Names of successful candidates will be released two days after the last day of screening –which is, Monday, 23rd July.

    Unsuccessful candidates would be able to file their protests/appeals between Tuesday, 24th July and Thursday, 26th July, while the same will be heard on Friday, 27th July and Saturday, 28th July.

    The final list of candidates for the elections will be made public on Monday, 30th July 2018, with the elections to hold on Saturday, 29th September 2018. This, according to Barrister Katu, would be subject to approval by the Congress of Nigeria Football Federation and any amendments to the NFF Statutes 2010, in view of the NFF Bill that is in process.

    The members of the NFF Electoral Committee and the NFF Electoral Appeals Committee for the forthcoming elections were elected at the NFF General Assembly that held in Jos, Plateau State on Thursday, 19th October 2017. It was at one of its recent meetings that the electoral panel elected Barrister Mohammed Sani Katu as its chairman.

  • NBA inaugurates Electoral Committee

    The President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud (SAN), yesterday at the national secretariat of the association in Abuja inaugurated NBA 2018 Electoral Committee (ECNBA).

    The five-member committee has Prof, Auwalu Yadudu (SAN) as chairman, Mr. Teslim Olatunde Busari (SAN) as alternate chairman and Mr. Bolaji A. Agoro as secretary.

    Others are Prof. Augustin Agom and Gloria Anuli Ohia.

    The members were nominated and approved during the last National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

    Agom was nominated to replace Mr. Tobias Kekemeke, whose nomination was rejected by Bar leaders, who alleged that he was already canvassing votes for one of the presidential candidates.

    Mahmoud (SAN) gave the committee the following terms of reference:

    To manage, control and conduct elections of national officers, to screen aspirants for the election, to circulate the list of properly nominated candidates to all the branches and the candidates by e mails and publish same on NBA website before the elections.

    He also charged the committee to publish a full list of the lawyers who are qualified to vote before the date of the elections, to publish the curriculum vitae, comprehensive manifestoes and campaign materials of all the qualified candidates on the NBA website, to issue guidelines for the conduct of the electronic voting, to collate and arrange all the material of qualified candidates in alphabetical order and publish them in electronic magazine on NBA website before the election.

    Mahmoud urged the committee to hear appeals of candidates dissatisfied with the decision of electoral officers and/ or their assistants and take decisions upon receiving appeals made by a candidate.

    Prof Yadudu (SAN) thanked the NBA for giving them the opportunity to serve the association and promised to discharge their duties according to the constitution of NBA, the fear of God and their conscience.

    The inauguration was witnessed by national officers, including the General Secretary of NBA, Aare Isiaka Abiola Olagunju, the 1st Vice-President of NBA, Mr Caleb Dajan, the National Publicity Secretary, John Austin Unachukwu, 2nd Assistant Secretary, Cecilia Ugbuji and Assistant Financial Secretary, Ngozi Udodi.

     

     

  • FA ELECTION: Niger State inaugurates electoral committee

    TheExecutive Committee of Niger State Football Association has inaugurated a seven man electoral committee to organise and supervise the election of the next executive of the state’s FA.  The committee has been mandated to make a good show of the election scheduled for February 16.

    It also inaugurated a five man appeal committee headed by  Ibrahim Liman Wushishi that would look into all matters arising from the election.

    While announcing the committee, Niger State FA chairman Comrade Ahmed Yusuf Fresh enjoined the members to see the mandate as a service for the growth of football in the state and the nation at large. He reminded them that they had been chosen based on their track record and impressive reputation adding that they must do everything to live to expectation.

    He also said the process of organising and supervising the election process and decisions relating to the election should be in conformity with the NFF electoral code as approved by the NFF General Assembly in Abuja on December  29.

    Comrade Ahmed Yusuf Fresh, who was represented on the occasion by the 1st vice chairman Yabagi Baba extolled the members whom he describe as men of proven integrity.

    The electoral committee is headed by Justice Yusuf Kontagora.  Other members of the committee include Alhaji Yahaya Garba,  Suleiman Isah, Umar Ango Badeggi, DSP John Magaji, Maryam Abdullsalam, Comrade Musa Maitani and Alhaji A A Nagya. The appeal committee has  Liman Ibrahim Wushishi as chairman, while other members are Andy Bala Likate, Saidu Anaba, Abbas Sufiyanu Danlami. Secretary of the committee is Saidu Jagaba who will be assisted by Garba Danfulani.

    In his acceptance speech, the chairman of the electoral committee Justice Kontagora promised to organise an election that will be so free and fair that there would be no need for members to be aggrieved and forced to go to the appeals committee.

    “This assignment is a collective responsibility, I would not let the state football association down but would deliver credible election that members may not run to the appeal committee,” he said.

  • New Electoral Committee launches website

    The Aminu Maigari faction of the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) congress has thrown open the electoral process for elections into the next board of the NFF, after its electoral committee, led by Samson Ebowei was inaugurated.

    As a result, a website (www.nffelect2014.com), has been set up to aid the procurement of forms into the next board of the NFF ahead of their elections, which has been fixed for September 4 in Abuja.

    An introductory part of the website reads: ‘In line with the new FIFA Electoral Code which seeks to ensure that elections of its member Federations are transparently organised, the General Assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 elected a seven-man committee to, organise and supervise the election process and take decisions relating to the election of members of the next Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)’

    Chairman of the new electoral committee,Samson Ebowei, said: “The essence of the website is to aid prospective candidates to purchase their forms for the elections because it is our desire to conduct a free and fair election.”