I.F. Adewole, vice chancellor, university of Ibadan and returning officer for Lagos State has just arrived INEC office at Yaba for announcement of the state presidential and national assembly election results. Meanwhile, the results of many local government areas of the state have arrived for collation at the INEC office. INEC conducted elections in 90…
Tension Mounts in Owerri
INEC officials and journalists were on Sunday held hostage at the commission’s office in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Tension mounted as news filtered in that a group of protesters believed to be supporters of the APC were advancing towards INEC office from the Asumta Cathedral end of Owerri – Port Harcourt Road. Security officials…
Presidential poll presents Surprises and upsets in Edo
As official results of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections are being awaited, there are indications that the opposition party in Edo State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is set to turn the table against the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The PDP which has never won elections in Oredo Local Government Area, with Benin…
Jega Announces Polling Units Voting On Sunday
During a press briefing this evening in Abuja, Attihiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced the numbers of polling units to conclude elections today. Among the polling units are: Lagos: 90 units; Niger: 6 units; Kebbi: 16units; Yobe: 37 units; Borno: 8 units; Adamawa: 25 units; Jigawa: 37 units; Kano: 13…
Jega Speaks on Port Harcourt Election Protest
Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has spoken on the election protest going on in Port Harcourt, Rivers State during a press briefing in Abuja this evening. He confirmed that the biggest opposition party, All Progressives Congress, APC, wrote a letter to the Commission urging it to cancel the elections held…
Oyo Election Result Update
The results of the Presidential and National Assembly election in all the 33 LGAs in Oyo State are still being collated and announced at the State’s INEC office in Agodi-Gate, Ibadan. The event is presided over and supervised by Prof Ayobami Salami, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics,Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile-Ife,Osun State. The exercise, which is moving at…
Massive Protest in Owerri
Supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have surrounded the INEC state headquarters in Owerri, Imo State. They are protesting the inconclusive nature of the presidential and national assembly elections in the state.
Mounting Tension in Port Harcourt
There is mounting security presence at INEC headquarters on Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Sunday morning. A team of heavily armed police officers have come to replace the one just mobilized and deployed to quell reported protests in Port Harcourt over the outcome of yesterday’s polls which the state ruling party, APC, has…
Voters Detained in Imo
An unknown number of voters were detained in an emergency cell in Ogboko, hometown of Governor Rochas Okorocha in Ideato South Local Government Area of the state as elections proceeded on Saturday. Voting went on normally in the area but Okorocha complained that “they have arrested innocent citizens who have registered here for frivolous allegations.”…
Results Are Being Collated – Ondo REC
Olusegun Agbaje, the Ondo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, on Sunday said the results of the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections were not ready as collation of results is still ongoing at the 18 local governments in the state. While addressing journalists at the INEC headquarters in Alagbaka, Akure, Agbaje, who said he had…
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