Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president, responded to the nationwide presidential election results. The results being announced by INEC, according to Obasanjo, do not reflect the wishes of the Nigerian people. Full text of his speech below. Salutations to all of you, brothers and sisters from Nigeria. I have to speak now due to circumstances. Because […]
Reactions to Bola Tinubu’s defeat by Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) over Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have not stopped. As previously reported, the Independent National Electoral Commission’s official results released on Monday show that Obi defeated Tinubu in Lagos State (INEC). The former governor of Anambra State defeated Tinubu with […]
On Monday, the police issued a warning to all presidential candidates and their supporters. CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the force’s public relations officer, made the decision in a statement on Monday. “The Nigeria Police Force has deemed it necessary to charge Presidential Candidates of all political parties, most particularly APC, PDP, LP and NNPP, to caution […]
Seven local government areas in Abia State’s presidential and National Assembly elections have been put on hold by INEC, the Independent National Electoral Commission. The Head of Voter Education and Publicity at INEC in Abia, Mrs. Rebecca Jim, who made this announcement in a statement, promised that a new date would be announced in due […]
The Labour Party’s legitimate candidate for governor in Enugu State, according to the Supreme Court, is Chijioke Edeoga. Everestus Nnaji disputed Edeoga’s eligibility. An earlier order for a new election came from the Federal High Court in Abuja, but Edeoga went further and appealed the decision. Despite receiving a favorable ruling, Nnaji continued his appeal […]
The Kaduna State government has reminded residents that protests of any kind are still categorically prohibited throughout the state as the counting of election results continues. Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for internal security and home affairs, said in a statement on Sunday that the state government was pleased with the largely peaceful election process that […]
Ben Ayade, governor of Cross River State, lost his bid to be re-elected to the Senate after being defeated by Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe, the sitting senator for Cross River North. With 76,145 votes, Agom-Jarigbe won the National Assembly election held on Saturday. 56,595 people chose Ayade. Results were revealed on February 27 by the returning officer, […]
Gabriel Agabi, a lecturer in the University of Calabar’s Philosophy Department, was detained by security personnel in the Cross Rivers State for having access to 17 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) voting machines. Agabi, who was detained on February 26th, was also charged with pretending to be Dominic Abakedi, the collation officer for the Yache […]
Hon. Jimoh Musa Omiata, the state assemblyman who represented the Yagba East local government area, has passed away. Omiata, a two-term member of the State House of Assembly and the first person to ever be re-elected from a State constituency, was a native of the Igbagun community in the Yagba East LGA of the State. […]
In 17 local government areas (LGAs) in Lagos State, the Labour Party’s (LP) Peter Obi is ahead of Bola Tinubu, the APC’s (Bola Tinubu) presidential candidate, by more than 1,000 votes. In 17 local government areas in Lagos, Obi had received 448,878 votes as of the time of filing this report at 7:30 am on […]