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The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano, Alhaji Suleiman Rabiu – Bichi has rejected the entire re-run election, especially Gama in Nassarawa LGA, describing the poll as shameful and calling for the immediate cancellation of the exercise. According to him, the party will not accept the result. It therefore refused to sign […]

Even as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Ahmed Aliyu, has called Governor Aminu Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to congratulate him on his victory in Saturday’s supplementary election, the Sokoto State Chapter of the APC on Sunday rejected the declaration of Gov. Tambuwal as winner of the governorship election. […]

After over 18 hours of waiting for the commencement of collation of Saturday’s supplementary election in Bauchi State, the results announced showed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, winning the highest number of votes. Mohammed secured about 6,376 votes, in 36 polling units across 15 local government areas of the State, […]

Sen. Jeremiah Useni, gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau, has vowed to challenge the re-election of Governor Simon Lalong for another term. Useni said that he and his team had gone through both the official results released by INEC and the documents submitted by the party’s field staff and had reservations. […]

The governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has been re-elected for a second term. The Returning Officer in the state, Prof. Maimako Sebastian, declared him the winner on Sunday after he polled 434,473 votes to beat his closest rival and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Emmanuel Jime, […]

The anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has declared a former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayodele Oke and his wife, Folasade wanted for failing to appear in court to answer for the N13 billion fraud and money laundering charges against them. This was contained in a statement […]

Violence and voter intimidation once again marred Saturday’s supplementary polls, as voters tried to take part in re-run governorship and state elections already postponed once because of unrest. Armed men armed with machetes, knives and cudgels took over polling stations, assaulting observers and journalists in Kano, northwest Nigeria. In Gama ward in Kano, men wielding […]

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano state has alleged that thugs took over the supplementary election process and described the exercise as sham. The opposition party has therefore called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the re-run governorship election. The Acting Chairman of the party, Rabiu Sulaiman-Bichi, told journalists in Kano […]

Reports say there was low turn-out in the ongoing Governorship and State House of Assembly supplementary elections in Benue as party chieftains engaged in supremacy battle in Sokoto state. Most polling units in Local Government Areas (LGA’s) across Benue are reported to have been characterized by low turnout. In Makurdi, Gwer, Otukpo local government areas, […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described as “evil minds” those discouraging the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last month’s presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, from seeking judicial redress at the election petition tribunal. In a congratulatory letter dated Saturday, March 23, 2019, addressed to the PDP governorship candidate in the 2018 […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Ibeju-Lekki State Constituency I, Mr Fatai Mojeed, winner of the supplementary election in the area. INEC conducted supplementary election in nine polling units of the state constituency after the commission had declared the March 9 election in the constituency inconclusive, […]

Sen. Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader,  says his moral authority plays a role in his ability to influence elections.   He  also said that other tools that helped him influence elections were his skills as a veteran politician and dedication to campaigning and mobilising his  own party members.     Tinubu […]