Tag: election
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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…
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Updates: PDP wins big, floors Gov El-Rufai in Kaduna govt house
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party defeated the All Progressives Congress in one of the polling units in Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, Kaduna Announcing the results after the governorship/state house of assembly elections held in Kaduna on Saturday, the Presiding Officer, Mohammed Baso, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Isah Ashiru scored 77 votes…
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Lai Mohammed describes 2023 polls as one of the most transparent elections in Nigeria –
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has described the 2023 elections as the most transparent and credible ever held in the country. The minister said this on Saturday, March 18 in his hometown, Oro, Ilorin area of Kwara State. Mohammed said the introduction of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, helped tackle the…
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ECOWAS okays conduct of election, says it’s peaceful
Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections on Saturday. According to a statement by the organization, the electoral process of March 18 was peaceful. The statement read, “The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission deployed by the President of the Commission of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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INEC shifts election for Bokkos LGA in Plateau to Sunday
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shifted Saturday’s governorship and States Houses of Assembly elections in Butura Ward in Bokkos Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau to Sunday, due to a logistics problem.
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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…
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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,…