Category: Election

Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri (left); Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu during a world press conference in Abuja… yesterday. Photos: Lucy Ladidi Ateko Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi (left); Chairman, LP, Julius Abure; LP chieftain, Alhaji Mohammed Audi and former Minister of Aviation, Fidelia […]

The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says a renewed hope has dawned in Nigeria with his election, promising to be a fair leader to all. He made this known in his acceptance speech on Wednesday in Abuja after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared him the winner of the election. Tinubu polled a total vote of […]

• Ignore insincere, ill-motivated advise, Bamidele, Bajowa urge Nigerians The Federal Government has cautioned former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to truncate the 2023 general elections, following a recent letter he wrote concerning the polls . In a statement in Abuja, yesterday, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said what the former President cunningly framed […]

Resource Centre for Human Rights & Civic Education (CHRICED) has called for reshuffle of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to give fillip to Nigeria’s electoral process of the March 11 governorship and State Houses of Assembly polls. In a statement by its Executive Director, Comrade Ibrahim Zikirullahi, the organisation said in the buildup to this year’s […]

Ruling party’s candidate Bola Tinubu (C) flanked by his deputy Shettima and wife Remi, addresses supporters in Abuja on March 1, 2023 during celebrations at his campaign headquarters. – Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu won Nigeria’s highly disputed weekend election, electoral authorities said on Wednesday, securing the former Lagos governor the presidency of Africa’s most […]

The Labour Party (LP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have asked Prof Mahmood Yakubu to resign as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Also, they demanded that the presidential election be conducted afresh. “We monitored with dismay the travesty to democracy that was exhibited at the National Collation Centre of the Independent […]

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, has scored majority votes in the presidential election held on Saturday across the country. Although the final results have not been declared at the national collation centre in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, electoral officials in the 36 states and Abuja have announced the results for […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday, commenced the last stage of the collation and announcement of the results of the presidential election. A total of 18 presidential candidates contested the election which was held across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on Saturday. The election was […]

The National Orientation Agency has appealed to Nigerians to remain calm and avoid acts and utterances capable of overheating the polity as the Independent National Electoral Commission collates results of the general elections, especially the presidential election. The Director General of the agency, Garba Abari, in a statement on Tuesday appealed to citizens to conduct […]

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, leads other candidates in the collation of the votes garnered by the candidates nationwide in the last Saturday’s presidential election. He polled 8,805,420 votes. A tally of the votes announced by electoral officials from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory at the […]