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  • Makinde pockets 15 LGs announced by INEC in Oyo [See Results]

    Makinde pockets 15 LGs announced by INEC in Oyo [See Results]

    The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Seyi Makinde has won in 15 out of the 16 local governments announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    The announcement of the governorship result is currently ongoing at Mutiu Agboke Collation Centre, Oyo INEC headquarters, Agodi, Ibadan

    Makinde, who is the incumbent governor of the state is seeking re-election.

    The result goes thus:

    1) Ona-Ara Local Government

    Accord: 1,212
    APC: 5,510
    PDP: 17,326

    2) Ibadan Northwest Local Government

    Accord: 1,291
    APC: 5,947
    PDP: 19007

    3) Ibarapa East Local Government

    Accord: 1,885
    APC: 7094
    PDP: 11,125

    4) Afijio Local Government

    Accord: 1,357
    APC: 5,588
    PDP: 13,139

    5) Atiba Local Government

    Accord: 1,113
    APC: 7,484
    PDP: 18,389

    6) Orire Local Government

    Accord: 1,895
    APC: 9,216
    PDP: 13,767

    7) Ibadan Southwest Local Government
    A: 2,270
    APC: 9,491
    PDP: 31,273

    8) Oluyole Local Government

    Accord: 1,386
    APC: 6,592
    PDP: 21,700

    9) Atisbo Local Government

    Accord: 1,188
    APC: 6,955
    PDP: 9,199

    10) Saki East Local Government

    Accord: 188
    APC: 5,519
    PDP: 8,374

    11) Surulere Local Government

    Accord: 271
    APC: 8,882
    PDP: 15,554

    12) Itesiwaju Local Government

    Accord: 2036
    APC: 4,597
    PDP: 8034

    13) Ogo Oluwa Local Government

    Accord: 50
    APC: 5,570
    PDP: 10,930

    14) Irepo Local Government

    Accord: 388
    APC: 9,785
    PDP: 7,193

    15) Olorunsogo Local Government
    Accord: 998
    APC: 4,851
    PDP: 5,838

    16) Ibadan Northeast Local Government

    Accord: 1,564
    APC: 8,486
    PDP: 29,396

    Source: VANGUARD

  • (JUST IN) Osun HoA Polls: PDP clears 25 seats out of 26

    (JUST IN) Osun HoA Polls: PDP clears 25 seats out of 26

    …one declared inconclusive

     

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has clinched 25 out of the 26 House of Assembly seats.

    According to monitored report, the only exception is that of Boripe/Boluwaduro State Constituency that has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    In the results so far announced, the PDP has won in Ifelodun Constituency where Tajudeen Akinlolu Adeyemi of the PDP polled 16,184 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mulikat Abiola Bello of the APC who scored 7, 460 votes.

    In Ede North State Constituency PDP’s Adewumi Babajide Kofoworola polled 17530 votes to defeat Abdulquadri Suleiman of the APC who polled 9,010 votes.

    In Ilesa West, Wale Akerele of the PDP defeated Wale Adedoyin of the APC by polling 13261 votes against 6392 votes.

    Prince Kashope Abolarin of the PDP polled 5416 votes to defeat his rival from the APC who scored 2939 votes in Ifedayo State Constituency.

    In Ife Central State Constituency, Abiola Jeremiah Awoyeye of the PDP polled 11691 votes as against his rival in the APC who came out with 8997.

    Abidemi Akinyode of the PDP got 11383 votes as against his opponent in the APC who polled 5313 votes.

    Other state constituencies that the PDP won includes: Ife South, Ife East, Modakeke Area Office, Oriade, Ika, Ejigbo, Ayedaade, Irewole/Isokan, Irepodun/Orolu, Olorunda and Osogbo.

    The breakdown of the results are as follows:

    Ife South:
    PDP -9974
    APC.-7840

    Ife East:
    PDP-10,957
    APC-5212

    Modakeke Area Office:
    PDP -7040
    APC 1301

    Oriade:
    PDP – 16,955
    APC – 8,346

    Ila:
    PDP – 12659
    APC – 8098

    Ejigbo:
    PDP – 18030
    APC – 10847

    Ayedaade:
    PDP 14, 631
    APC 8,415

    Irepodun/Orolu:
    PDP -22, 294
    APC – 10, 826

    Irewole/Isokan:
    PDP – 23543
    APC – 18541

    Olorunda:
    PDP – 18, 100
    APC – 10483

    Osogbo:
    PDP – 23054
    APC – 13851

    Recall that in the February 25, 2023, National Assembly election, the PDP had also cleared all the National Assembly seats.

    (Daily Post)

  • EFCC operatives brutalised by alleged vote buyers in Kaduna

    EFCC operatives brutalised by alleged vote buyers in Kaduna

    Raw deal for operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on election monitoring duty in Kaduna State Saturday as they came under heavy attack at School Road, Unguwan Rimi Kaduna while attempting to arrest a suspected vote buyer.

    The team, working on intelligence on the alleged activities of one Kabiru Musa who was seen in an amateur video allegedly inducing eligible voters by using his phone to transfer money into their accounts as they cast their votes, had mobilized to the scene to arrest the suspect.

    However, immediately he was accosted by the operatives, Musa became unruly and screamed to attract the attention of his syndicate members, who descended on the operatives, using all manner of weapons that left some of them injured.

    It took great restraints for the operatives to ignore the unprovoked attack but insisted on arresting the suspect.

    As the team drove away with the suspect, their vehicle was pelted with stones and other dangerous objects that damaged the windshield and three operatives suffered varying degrees of injuries in the process.

    The injured operatives are currently receiving medical attention at the Medical Centre of the Kaduna Zonal Command, while the suspect is in custody, pending conclusion of the investigation.

    Recall that EFCC teams were similarly attacked during the presidential and national assembly elections, leaving some of its vehicles badly damaged.

    Reacting to the incident, Executive Chairman of the Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa commended the operatives for exercising great restraint under extreme provocation. He however appealed to the public to desist from attacking officers of the Commission as such action would no longer be tolerated.

  • Voters Apathy, vote buying mar election in Calabar

    Voters Apathy, vote buying mar election in Calabar

    Wevole Ezin

    Most polling units in Calabar, Cross River State have experienced low turnout of voters, and vote buying in the on going Guber and State Assembly elections in Cross River State.

    At ward one, units 001-005 in Akim town, Calabar Municipality, the INEC members of staff and the security personnel were sighted at the various polling units at 7:50am, despite the near absence of prospective voters.

    However, few minutes after casting his vote at the same unit at 9am, the polling unit and other adjoining units, according to our correspondent, started recording slight increase in the number of potential voters.

    It was also observed that some party agents in other areas including Ward 7, unit 5, Ikot Ishie, also in Calabar Municipality, were tactically engaging most voters, promising to reward them for casting their votes for the respective parties.

    The situation was not different in Ward 4, unit 15, State Housing Estate in Calabar Municipality.

    The INEC workers, who came out early for the exercise, were greeted with low turnout of voters.

    One of the electorates, a 26 -year- old Patricia Ekpo said the general Voters’ apary could be related to the outcome of the Presidential election which she said was a stolen mandate of the people.

    She added, ” Today’s exercise is orderly and peaceful no doubt, but the whole essence is about the trust in the system that matters most.”

    At ward 7, unit 5, the level of voter aparthy was quite high compared to the last general elections held in the same area.

    An observer in the unit, Mr. Okon Ete, attributed the situation to the outcome of the last elections.

    ” We are not surprised to see the turn out of voters in today’s election, but we have hope that our party will win. Most of our supporters are not happy with the results of the last elections, and so they refused to come out”, he said.

    Also speaking, the PDP agent in Polling unit 012, ward 6, Pst. Dominic Etim, said “today’s turnout is not really encouraging compared to the Presidential election. People are aggrieved, they feel their votes were not counted in the previous exercise and still believe their vote will not be counted this time around.”

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  • Delta: PDP raises alarm, alleges APC has cloned result sheets ready for distribution to collation centres

    Delta: PDP raises alarm, alleges APC has cloned result sheets ready for distribution to collation centres

    …places PDP agents on standby to forestall such moves

    The Delta State PDP has raised an alarm alleging that the APC in Delta State has cloned result sheets that will soon be smuggled into collation centres across the state.

    It was also noted that the APC is already affixing results on the INEC cloned sheets to be smuggled into collation centres.

    Ifeanyi Osuoza, Media & Publicity,
    Delta PDP Campaign Council/ State Publicity Secretary raised the alarm in a statement he personally signed on Saturday stating that:

    “We have received impeccable intelligence that the Delta State All Progressives Congress, APC is in possession of already cloned result sheets and are presently affixing results and numbers into columns, with the intention of smuggling these already prepared result sheets into various Collation Centres, with full support and assistance of compromised, conniving INEC staff, who are willing and ready to carry out this dirty, damaging assignment to sabotage the Governorship and State House of Assembly election, March 18, 2023.

    “We are therefore calling on all Party Agents at the various polling units, to be on high alert and be extra vigilant of any strange movements and suspicious exchanges of documents, to ensure that only the authentic votes cast and proper ballot papers used for the election are counted at each polling unit and the results and numbers declared are the same, accurately imputed and affixed into the result sheets, which must be blank and displayed to the voters for confirmation, before results are imputed.

    “We want to also place it on record that we are fully aware of this dirty plot by the APC in concert with compromised electoral officials, to manipulate the results of the election and we are, by this Press Release, putting INEC and all security agencies involved and connected with the election on notice, that they should prevent where necessary or desist forthwith, from engaging or encouraging any nefarious acts that are very capable of causing a major eruption of widespread violence and massive disruptions, once people realise that the right thing has not been done and their votes will not count.

    A word is enough for the wise.

  • Just In: Again, APC national chairman loses polling unit

    Just In: Again, APC national chairman loses polling unit

    The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has again lost his polling unit to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the rescheduled Governorship and State House of Assembly elections held on Saturday in Nasarawa State.

    At the GRA (A1) Polling Unit 010, in Keffi, headquarters of Keffi local government area of the State, the main opposition party got 159 votes, while the ruling party polled 129 votes.

    The outcome showed a difference of 30 votes between both parties in the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Presiding Officer, Okoh Ebenezer Everest.

    Adamu had earlier lost the polling unit to the Labour Party in the Presidential and National Assembly elections held three weeks ago.

    According to the latest results, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) got one, while the Labour Party (LP) which created an upset during the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections recorded zero vote.

    The Labour Party had earlier collapsed its structure into that of the PDP for the Governorship and State House of Assembly polls.

    He also lost his senatorial district to Ahmed Wadada of the SDP in the National Assembly elections three weeks ago.

    APC also lost the State House of Assembly poll in Senator Adamu’s polling unit to PDP.

    Source: Leadership

  • LP guber candidate, Gbadebo loses polling unit to Sanwo-Olu

    LP guber candidate, Gbadebo loses polling unit to Sanwo-Olu

    The Lagos State Labour Party (LP) guber candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has lost his polling unit 045 in Anifowoshe, Ikeja to the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

    Sanwo-Olu who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 29 to defeat Rhodes-Vivour who scored 18, while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olajide Adediran got two votes.

    The results were announced by the Presiding Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the polling unit, Abiodun Daniel.

    Meanwhile, the Saturday’s Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections in the state were characterized by low turnout of voters, voter intimidation and suppression.

  • Thugs set 7 PDP vehicles ablaze in Cross River on eve of election

    Thugs set 7 PDP vehicles ablaze in Cross River on eve of election

    Wevole Ezin

    Suspected thugs have attacked, burn down seven vehicles belonging to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) members in Odukpani local government area of Cross River State.

    The thugs suspected to have been sponsored by opposition party carried out the attack on Friday at Okut-Ikang/Akpap area of Odukpani.

    “At about 11:45pm on Friday, March 17, 2023, seven PDP vehicles including four buses and three SUVs were burnt down by unidentified thugs.

    “One woman was also shot in the belly at Ikot Effiong Otop. Some policemen were disarmed and weapons taken away.”

    It was gathered that the vehicle belonged to the Director Security of PDP campaign organization in the state, Mr. Bobby Ekpenyong, as well as the state Vice Chairman (South) of the party.
    Reacting to the incident, the PDP Governorship Candidate, Senator Prof. Sandy Onor, condemned the act.

    He however urged the electorates not to be discouraged by the unfortunate incident but to go out and excecise their voting rights by voting out the APC.

    When contacted, The State Command Police Public Relations Officer, SP Irene Ugbo, said that the command has not received any official complain on the incident.

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  • Benue: Soldiers deal mercilessly with lawmaker at his hotel

    Benue: Soldiers deal mercilessly with lawmaker at his hotel

    Some military officers have reportedly beaten a lawmaker from Benue State to a stupor on Saturday morning at a hotel in the Gboko Local Government Area of the state.

    According to monitored report, the lawmaker was identified as Kpam Sokpo, representing Buruku Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.

    According to him, military personnel stormed the hotel where he was lodged at Gboko at about 2;30 am and attacked him for no reason.

     

    Narrating his ordeal to pressmen in the state, the Benue lawmaker submitted that “I don’t know what came over them, I came to the hotel where I was staying in Gboko, Old Barn, around 2:30 am and I sat there with some of my friends.

     

    “And shortly after, about five trucks filled with over 60 soldiers came to the place. When they alighted from their vehicles they just took the position.

    “I got up from where I was sitting to do something and one of them approached me and asked why I was walking in the manner I was walking.

    “And as I was talking he slapped me in the face. I asked why he did that, and I introduced myself as a House of Representatives member. I told him he did not know me and just slapped me in the face?

    “Before I knew what was happening more than 30 of them just pounced on me using the butt of their guns to injure me. Some of the guns they used on me even broke into pieces. As I speak with you I have stitches on my face, on my head and I have all kinds of injuries on my body.

    “While this was going on, their Commanding Officer came in and calmed the situation a bit. Shortly after they went on to harass me and collected everything in my car including every piece of paper.

    “In fact, the one who started assaulting me threatened that he could even kill me. Unfortunately, I did not get their names because they removed their name tags before assaulting me.

    “Believe me, I do not know why they did this to me. I have gone to the hospital to stitch the cuts and treat myself, but I have reported the matter to the Police and the Security Adviser to the Governor of Benue State.”

    Meanwhile, it was gathered that the Benue State Police Commissioner, Wale Abass, said he was yet to receive the report of the incident.

    While, the Public Relations of the 401 Special Force Brigade Makurdi, Capt. John Okozie said he would reach out to the personnel in Gboko to find out what actually happened.

    Source: Vanguard

  • Benue: Three thugs shot dead for attempting to snatch ballot boxes

    Benue: Three thugs shot dead for attempting to snatch ballot boxes

    No fewer than three persons suspected to be political thugs have been killed in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State.

    It was gathered that the thugs invaded the polling units 026 and 004, Gboko South while electoral processes were ongoing and attempted to snatch ballot boxes and the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS.

    An eye-witness, Moses Agure-Dam who confirmed the development said the thugs were gunned down by military officers.

    He said, “The thugs invaded the polling units and disrupted the election. They were three in number, one snatched the BVAS while others snatched ballot boxes but they didn’t not succeed.

    “They were all shot dead instantly by the soldiers in the area”.

    Efforts to reach the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Catherine Anene proved abortive as her number was unreachable.

    Source: Daily Post