Politics

The state collation officer for the presidential election in Rivers State, Prof Charles Adias, has adjourned the collation of Saturday’s election results. Adias adjourned the collation of results in the state over alleged threat to his life by unnamed party supporters. The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Otueke, announced …

Two candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara State who lost the last Saturday National Assembly election, have rejected the results of the exercise declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. They are Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim, who contested for the senatorial seat for Kwara South and …

Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku of Taraba State has lost the Taraba south senatorial election. Ishaku, who contested last Saturday’s National Assembly election, was defeated by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor, it would be recalled, had also lost his polling unit to the Presidential candidate of …

Hadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation, has urged the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to write his acceptance speech immediately as the ‘president elect’. According to Sirika, Tinubu should also make the acceptance speech short so that his supporters can sleep early tonight. The …

Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has won the just concluded Presidential Elections in Kano State with the highest votes of 997,279. Bola Ahmad Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, came second with 517,341, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, polled 131,716 …

Mohammed Bello El-Rufai of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the eldest son of Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, has won a House of Representatives seat in Kaduna North Local Government Area of the state. The returning officer Professor Muhammad Magaji Garba, said that El-Rufai polled 51,052 to defeat the incumbent …

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Niger State has won the highest number of votes cast in the state in the presidential election. Details soon.

The presidential candidate of the Progressives Congress (APC) , Bola Tinubu, has urged Lagos residents to avoid any act of violence as the results of the presidential election trickle in. Newsextra24 had reported that Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), was declared the winner. Obi polled 582,664, while Tinubu …

Results coming out from the presidential elections in Kano shows that Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, has defeated both the two major parties of PDP and APC in the Fagge Local Government Area. The INEC Returning Officer, Professor Aliyu Abdullahi Bichi, while declaring the winner of the contest …

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday declared Mr Neda Imasuen of the Labour Party, LP, as the winner of the Edo South Senatorial District election of Saturday. The Returning Officer, Prof. A. Obasuyi, declared that Imasuen scored 167,250 votes. He defeated his PDP and APC opponents, who scored …