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  • Atiku clears all 17 LGAs in Enugu

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar on Monday won in Enugu State by landslide in all the 17 local government areas.

    He scored a total of 355,553 votes with President Muhammadu Buhari in far distance with 54,423 votes.

    The State Collation officer, Prof. Joseph Ahaneku, said that the results were carefully collated and observers at the collation hall were satisfied with the job done.

    Ahaneku, who is also the Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Awka, said the state had 1,944, 016 registered voters with total accredited voters of 452,765 for the polls proper.

    He said the total number of valid votes is 421,014 while invalid votes remained 30,049 in the exercise in the state.

    “I will now take the result obtain here to INEC national headquarters to present to the national presiding officer.

    “I thank everybody for being patient and sacrificing to see that we are diligent and meticulous in the entire exercise,’’ Ahaneku said.

    The results of the election as it at the various 17 council areas as follows:

    · In Enugu South council area, PDP got 25, 631 votes, APC gathered 2,350 votes, YPP 245, APGA 84 AND PPA 25.

    · Aninri council area, PDP got 19,062 votes; APC gathered 1,462 votes, APGA 251 and PPA 30.

    · In Ezeagu council area, said that PDP got 15,526 votes, APC gathered 3,103 votes; APGA 166 and APDA 21.

    · In Enugu North council area, PDP got 24, 921 votes; APC gathered 1825 votes; YPP 284, APGA 33 and APDA 32.

    · Isi-Uzo council area, PDP garnered 15,224, while APC got 2336 votes.

    · In Awgu council area, PDP got 16,581 votes and APC gathered 5,857.

    · Oji River council area, PDP gathered 14,893 and APC got 1487.

    · Igbo-Etiti council area, PDP obtained 20,946 and APC got 3045.

    · Igbo-Eze North council area, PDP gathered 16,228 and APC 4,931.

    · In Nkanu East council area, PDP got 12,098 and APC gathered 4,824.

    · Udi council area, PDP gathered 24,544 and APC obtained 2871.

    · Nkanu West council area, PDP got 16982 and APC obtained 5500.

    · In Igbo-Eze South council area, PDP obtained 21693 and APC 1983.

    · Nsukka council area, PDP got 46,265 and APC gathered 2922.

    · Udenu council area, PDP gathered 27928 and APC got 1601.

    · Uzo Uwani council area, PDP got 13,850 and APC obtained 4868

    · Enugu East council area, PDP obtained 22,946 and APC obtained 3291 while YPP secured 191. The council elections had issues in three units with two registration wards.

    The issues included misplacement of result sheets as well as accreditation not taking place.

     

     

  • #NigeriaDecides2019: Atiku maintains lead in 18 Adamawa LGAs

    #NigeriaDecides2019: Atiku maintains lead in 18 Adamawa LGAs

    The results of the presidential election in three more LGAs in Adamawa State have been announced with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar maintaining the lead.

    Atiku had been in the lead since about 9am on Monday when results of 15 LGAs were released.

    But more results have since been announced from three more LGAs namely Song, Fufore and Gombi, bringing to 18 the total number of LGAs where results have been announced since the collation exercise started Sunday evening.

    Atiku has a total of 349,690 votes from the 18 LGAs while Buhari has 338,926 votes.

    In the latest results Atiku polled 22,648 votes in Song, 16,430 in Fufore and 18,172 in Gombi while Buhari polled 17,350 votes in Song, 29,507 in Fufore and 12,805 in Gombi.

    The Presidential Collation Centre in Yola adjourned sitting to 2pm after announcing the Gombi LGA result with pending results from the remaining Michika, Jada and Toungo LGAs.

  • Buhari defeats Atiku in seven Borno LGAs displaced by Boko Haram

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, is in clear lead ahead of his major challenger, Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in seven local government areas that have been displaced by Boko Haram insurgency.

    Despite the reclaim of most local government areas that were once under the control of Boko Haram fighters, many of the displaced persons still live in camps. These camps are either located in Maiduguri, the state capital, or at various local government headquarters.

    Analysts expect that the opposition parties, especially the PDP, might be able to make some inroads in these displaced local governments, especially over residents’ fixation on the ruling party’s inability to effectively degrade the insurgents.

    But despite the impressive presidential campaign rally that Atiku had in Maiduguri about three weeks ago, the voter return in his favour does not seem to be commensurate with the promises made to Atiku.

    According to results so far announced at the Borno state presidential collation centre, Buhari continues to maintain a comfortable lead in all the seven council areas that were brought in.

    In Nganzai local government, Buhari polled 6,804 votes, while Atiku got 975 votes. The local government had 8,058 votes while about 335 ballots were rejected.

    In Magumeri LGA, with a total registered vote of 50, 991 and 14, 364 accredited voters, Buhari polled 12,079 votes, while Atiku got 692 votes out of a total the 13,738 total valid votes.

    In Mobbar local government, Buhari polled 13,112 votes to beat Atiku who got only 280 votes.

    Buhari won Gubio local government area with 10,207 votes to beat Atiku who got 510 votes.

    In Dikwa, Buhari got 17,805 votes to defeat Atiku, who managed to get only 100 votes.

    In Abadam local government where there was a serious voter aparthy, the displaced people who had challenges with their voting centres gave Buhari 5,907 votes with only 270 of them thumb printing their ballots for Atiku. Abadam has a total of 45,707 votes.

    In Guzamala, another local area with low voter turnout, only 6,284 votes were received. And of that figure, Buhari swept 5,370 votes and left only 521 votes for Atiku.

    Collation will continue at 7 pm when other remaining 20 local government areas would have arrived.

  • FAAC: FG, States, LGAs share N698.71b for September

    The Federal Government, 36 States and FCT as well as 774 Local Governments on Thursday shared N698.7billion for the month of September.
    The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, said this in Abuja, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting.
    Giving a breakdown of the revenue accrued in September to be distributed in October, Ahmed said N569.28 billion which was received as gross statutory revenue, was lower than the N587.1 billion shared in August by N17.8 billion.
    A communiqué issued by the Technical Sub-Committee of FAAC showed that the distributable statutory revenue for the month stood at N569.28 billion and the total revenue distributable for the month was N698.7billion.
    It also showed that the gross revenue available from Value Added Tax (VAT), was N75.9 billion as against N109.9 billion distributed in the preceding month, resulting in a decrease of N33.9 billion.
    “We are also distributing N50 billion which has accrued from the forex equalisation account to the three tiers of government.
    “There is an exchange gain also of N0.275 billion that is included in the distribution.
    “So total distributable revenue to the three tiers of government for the month of October 2018 is N698.71 billion,” Ahmed said.
    In the summary of the distribution, the Federal Government got N265.6 billion from statutory revenue, N11.3 billion from VAT, N0.13 billion from the exchange gain and N22.9 billion from forex equalisation fund, culminating in N300.1 billion.
    The States got N134.75 billion from statutory revenue, N37.9 billion from VAT, N0.06 billion from the exchange gain and N11.6 billion from forex equalisation fund, culminating in N184.4 billion.
    The Local Governments got N103.8 billion from statutory revenue, N26.5 billion from VAT, N0.05 billion from the exchange gain and N8.96 billion from forex equalisation fund, culminating in N139.4billion.
    Derivation of 13 per cent of mineral revenue amounted to N59.09 billion and cost of collection/transfer and Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Refund was put at N15.57 billion.
    “Crude oil export sales increased by 0.17 million barrels resulting in increased revenue to the Federation of 8.48 million dollars.
    “However the average unit price dropped from 77.10 dollars to 75.69 dollars.
    Ahmed said that the report of the committee on the Excess Crude Account (ECA) was stepped down and withdrawn to enable the committee to rework and represent it at the next meeting.