After a crucial meeting of the national commissioners of the Commission and its chairman, Professor Moshood Yakubu. The presidential election and the National Assembly elections have been shifted by one week. Nigerians will now have to wait till February 23, 2019, to elect the next president and federal legislators, while the governorship election will be…
The Politricks of a Certificate
There is nothing more damaging than self-indictment. This is what President Muhammadu Buhari has inflicted on himself with the needless certificate scandal he first created in 2014 when he ran for president and won at the fourth attempt. Among the documents he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC was a sworn affidavit in…
Oyetola is Osun Governor-elect
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Osun State as the governor-elect of the state. The APC candidate scored a total of 255,505 votes while Ademola Adeleke, the PDP candidate scored a total of 255,023 votes. The PDP candidate led with 353 votes…
Update on Osun Election Re-run
By Adewale Olayemi Voters defied the early morning rain to cast their vote at Ataoja ‘E’ Adewale Str., Ward 5 Unit 17 in Osogbo. The re-run to conclude the Osun Governorship election that was declared inconclusive by INEC started on a good footing this morning. As early as 7 am voters were seen trooping to…
INEC Absolves Staff of Result Manipulation
By Adewale Olayemi The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Osun state, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, has debunked reports that a staff of the commission was caught in Ayedaade Local Council while trying to manipulate election result. Agbaje while briefing the media Tuesday in Osogbo, reiterated the need to set the record straight in view of the misgivings…
CRPP Makes Case for Adeleke
By Adewale Olayemi The Conference of Registered Political Parties, Osun state chapter has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare Senator Ademola Adeleke as the Governor-Elect of Osun state having won the majority of the lawful votes and fulfilled the constitutional requirements in line with the result declared by the electoral body.…
INEC Declares Osun Election Inconclusive
By Adewale Olayemi At exactly 1.55pm, Prof. Joseph Adeola Afuwape, the Returning Officer for the Osun state governorship election declared the election inconclusive. According to him, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ademola Adeleke beat his closest rival Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress with a margin of 353 votes. Afuwape observed…
PDP SNEEZES…Who is Catching Cold?
The crisis-free convention by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, aside from raising hope of stronger opposition party, appears to have been a reason for panic in the camp of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC The atmosphere was electric. The swagger was familiar. Eagle Square reverberated with nostalgia for the umbrella of green, red and black.…
How the Nigeria Police Saved Anambra from Post-Election Mayhem
But for the refusal of top police officers dispatched to Anambra State to supervise security during the just-concluded governorship election, the incumbent governor would have been robbed of victory Ahead of the November 18, 2017 governorship election in Anambra State won by a wide margin by the incumbent governor, Willie Obiano of the All Progressives…
Rivers PDP Loses Senate Seat
Rivers PDP Loses Senate Seat The Court of Appeal in Abuja today ruled that George Sekibo, representing Rivers East in the Senate is not the person legally elected to the seat. Sekibo, a candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in the contested election had challenged an earlier victory over his opponent at the appellate…
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