Tag: Collation
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Gombe gov’ship election: APC leads as INEC announces results of 6 LGAs
The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Gombe State, Inuwa Yahaya, is leading after the announcement of results from six LGAs so far presented. Jibrin Barde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had so far won in two LGAs while APC won four LGAs
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#AnambraDecides: Soludo, Ozigbo, Uba win respective polling units
Early results from the ongoing governorship election in Anambra State show candidates of the three major contending parties Charles Soludo of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Andy Uba of All Progressives Congress (APC), and Valentine Ozigbo of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) all won in their respective polling units. The APC candidate, who voted at Saint…
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Counting, collation of results underway as voting ends in Lagos council polls
Voting has ended in most polling units as vote counting and collation of results got underway after Saturday’s elections into the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria’s (NAN) correspondents, who monitored the exercise, reports that collations have started at the ward levels where…
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Protests rock Rivers as INEC resumes collation of governorship poll results
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has resumed the collation of the governorship election results in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The electoral umpire had postponed the exercise on Tuesday after announcing the results of 15 local government areas. The collation exercise today commenced amid a protest outside the venue for collation. At the…
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BREAKING: INEC suspends collation of Rivers election results, to continue on Wednesday
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has halted the collation of results for the governorship election in Rivers State. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Obo Effanga, announced this on Tuesday at the collation centre in Port Harcourt, the state capital. According to her, the electoral body will continue with the exercise at 10am…
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Supplementary poll: INEC explains why collation is delayed in Bauchi
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Bauchi State, Ibrahim Abdullahi, has blamed the delay in the commencing of collation for the supplementary governorship election on the absence of the State Returning Officer, Muhammed Kyari. The REC, who made this disclosure at about 1 a.m., said Mr Kyari, a professor, left Yola, the Adamawa State capital,…
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Inconclusive poll: INEC heeds court’s order, suspends collation of results in Bauchi
The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ), says it has complied with a court order restraining it from resuming with the collation and announcement of result for Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area, LGA. A Federal High Court in Abuja had barred the Commission (INEC) from collation of result of the governorship election of March…
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INEC cancels supplementary elections in Bauchi, resumes collation of results Tuesday
The Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to resume from Tuesday, the collation of the governorship election result in Bauchi State and may declare the winner of the poll, hitherto ruled as inconclusive. The commission announced the decision in a press statement on Friday night after resolving some issues around the result of Tafawa Balewa…
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Thugs invade PW collation centre in Kubwa
Political thugs raided the PW collation centre in Kubwa of Bwari Area council at about 8.20pm at the ongoing Area council elections in Abuja and carted away electoral materials. The collation centre identified as Usuma polling zone housing unit 009 was raided by thugs shooting sporadically into the air. According to an eye witness account,…
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#NigeriaDecides2019: INEC resumes collation of presidential results in Abuja today
Collation and announcement of results of Saturday’s elections will begin today. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu opened the collation centre at about 6 pm on Sunday. Yakubu adjourned sitting till 11am today after setting the ground rules. It was the last step in the conduct of the presidential election. The…