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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Similanayi Fubara has been declared winner of the Rivers State governorship election. Announcing the result in Port Harcourt on Monday night, the Returning Officer said Fubara secured 302,614 votes. The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Pastor Tonye Cole, came second with 95,274 votes. Fubara is the anointed candidate of the incumbent Governor, […]

Speaker of the Plateau State of Assembly and member, representing Pengana State Constituency, Hon Yakubu Yakson Sanda has been defeated by a female candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mrs Happiness Mathew Akawu. Akawu polled 9,933 votes to defeat Sanda of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 9,672 in the elections.Also the Majority Leader of the House of Assembly […]

The PDP has won 12 out of the 24 constituency seats in the Edo State House of Assembly elections. The election results so far declared by INEC showed that APC won six seats and the Labour Party (LP) one. The results of the remaining five constituencies had yet to be announced. Egor, Etsako I, Etsako II, Oredo East and Ovia […]

The Labour Party gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has announced that he will be challenging the Lagos state electoral results in the court of law, claiming that the recently concluded election was nothing but a sham. Rhodes-Vivour claimed that what was witnessed in the state was “state-backed terrorism”, following the countless instances of electoral violence that was aired […]

Former Minister of Transportation and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday revealed that a member of the camp of the President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu, nominated the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, for his reappointment for a second term. After voting in his hometown, Ubima Ward 8 Unit 14, […]

Supporters of the two leading political parties in Enugu State have stormed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters, in Enugu, as tension heightens over the collation of the governorship election results. The Labour Party supporters were the first to storm the commission’s office demanding that the result of the Nkanu East Local Government Area must not be accepted over […]

The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has defeated the All Progressive Party to win Saturday’s governorship election in Kano State. Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP was declared the winner with 1,019,602 votes against his closest rival, APC’s candidate, Nasir Gawuna, who polled 890,705 votes. The Independent National Electoral Commission Returning officer, Prof Ahmad Doko Ibrahim, announced Yusuf as the […]

Governor Umar Ganduje and ex-Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso will again on Saturday do a rematch of the 2019 governorship election as they both seek to install their lackey as governor of Kano State. Governor Ganduje is backing his deputy, Nasir Gawuna, while Kwankwaso has once again nominated his son-in-law, Abba Yusuf. This election looks like a rematch of the 2019 race between […]

There is anxiety in the polity as no fewer than 837 candidates including 24 women go to battle tomorrow for 28 governorship seats. Also, 10,240 standard bearers are jostling for 993 state assembly slots in the polls which have sparked anxiety following the outcome of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections that caused many upsets across the country. […]