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THE Independent National Electoral Commission has flouted the promise it made on uploading results of elections in different polling units across the country as they are sorted, counted and collated. Newextra24.com on November 22 reported that INEC chairman, Yakubu Mahmoud, said there is no going back on its decision to …

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party from Kogi State, Senator Dino Melaye, has secured his polling unit for the Atiku-Okowa Presidential campaign. At Unit 004 Aiyetoro/Iluhagba Ward 1, PDP won the majority of votes in the presidential, senate, and House of Representatives races. The PDP received 125 votes for …

THE vice-presidential candidate of the Labour party, Datti Baba-Ahmed lost his polling unit to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party. In polling unit 021 situated at Tudun Wada ward, in Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State, there were 272 accredited voters. PDP won the polling unit with 102 …

THE Independent National Electoral Commission has moved voting in 141 polling units in Bayelsa State to Sunday. This was made known by the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu on Saturday at the second leg of the situation report on 2023’s presidential and National Assembly elections. According to Yakubu, the voting …

THE Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has commended the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), for signing the 2022 Electoral Act. Adeleke spoke shortly after voting at his Sagba/Abogunde Ward 2, Unit 9, Ede on Saturday. According to a statement by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, the governor arrived the polling …

THE chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Chairman in the Federal Capital Territory, Sunday Zaka, has been reported dead. Zaka was said to have died around 3 am on Saturday after a fatal accident while on his way to his residence in Kuje. He died alongside his personal security aide …

AS of 9:50am on Election Day officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission had yet to arrive at over six polling units visited by our correspondent in the Lekki area of Lagos State. Polling units at Ajiran Primary School 1, Ajiran Primary School 11, Bakare Estate main gate, John Okafor …

AMONG the voters is 75 years old Mrs Felicia Oladunjoye, who voted at Iyin II Alayanrun Compound, Iyin Ekiti, and 74 years old Mrs Maryann Ogundele, who voted at Iyin 1, Unit 003, registration area 010 at Iyin Ekiti. Oladunjoye, who said that it took her about three minutes to …

THE Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has cast his vote in his hometown of Adamawa. He exercised his franchise at Ajiya 02, in Gwadabawa Ward, Yola North Local Government of Adamawa. Speaking after performing his civic duty, the former vice president expressed optimism that the process will be …

THE Peoples Democratic Party in Imo State on Saturday raised an alarm over what it described as the continued attempts by armed agents in the state to assassinate a member of the House of Representatives representing Ohaji-Egbema, Oguta and Oru West federal constituency, Hon. Uju Kingsley Chima. Chima is also …