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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday paid a surprise visit to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Situation Room in Abuja. The President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, who made this known on his twitter handle, said the president visited the Situation Room to show appreciation for the work being done […]

Ahead of the full declaration of the results, the national chairman of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Uche Secondus, has rejected the results of the presidential election currently being announced by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as “incorrect and unacceptable. At the national Collation Center in Abuja, where the final results are […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “immediately refer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to article 13 of the Rome Statute to which Nigeria is a state party, all allegations of election-related violence, intimidation and killings between 1999 and 2019 for investigation […]

Presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thanked Nigerians for turning out to vote for him in their millions and confirmed that the initial indications from the PDPs Simultaneous Vote Count show a PDP victory is assured. Atiku in a statement issued in Abuja by his Special Assistant […]

Sen Melaye Defeats Adeyemi in Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West senatorial district is all but certain to defeat Senator Smart Adeyemi according to results from INEC office in Lokoja. Melaye won six of the seven local government councils. Adeyemi scored a total votes of 67, 471 while Melaye scored 84, 797. Melaye […]

Nigeria’s senate president Bukola Saraki has lost his re-election bid to the Red Chamber to the ruling All Progressives Congress’s candidate Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe. The acclaimed strong man of Kwara State politics lost in all the four local government areas that constitute the Kwara Central Senatorial district, polling 68, 994 against 123, 808 votes for […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates as winners of the three senatorial and six House of Representatives seats in Ekiti State in Saturday’s National Assembly elections. In the results declared by INEC, Prince Dayo Adeyeye of the ruling APC was declared winner of the Ekiti South Senatorial District. […]

Votes were being counted in presidential elections, even as many people had yet to even cast their ballot because of delays in the opening of polling units and problems with staffing and technology.  Nigeria on Sunday awaited results from its presidential election as civil society groups warned that disorganization and violence may have undermined the […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it was doing everything possible to ensure the speedy collation of results and declaration of winners for the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. INEC’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the pledge on Sunday at a press conference at the National Collation Centre in Abuja. Yakubu […]

The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara was declared the winner of the Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency election by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Dogara, representing the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), polled 73,609 votes to defeat his closest challenger, All Progressives Congress’s Dalhatu Kantana, who scored 50,078 results. “I dedicate this victory to […]Read More

Buhari wins Ekiti, first result by INEC President Muhammadu Buhari won Ekiti state, the first officially declared presidential election result by Independent National Electoral Commission. In the result announced by the returning officer, Professor Idowu Olayinka, vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Buhari of the All Progressives Congress polled 219,231 votes, while Atiku Abubakar […]

The PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, defeated President Buhari in the overall Presidential Villa polling units’ presidential election results.  Atiku polled a total of 1,030 votes to defeat Buhari who scored a total of 1,013 votes with 13 votes difference. In the same vein, the PDP defeated the APC in the overall senatorial election results […]