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The Adamawa Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Yola says it has received 19 petitions. The Secretary of the tribunal, Mr Godwin Ezenwa, made this known to newsmen on Saturday in Yola. Ezenwa said the petitions comprised of two for Senate, seven for House of Representatives, and 10 for House of Assembly. Ezenwa said the tribunal would have its inaugural sitting ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied that it was instructed to work against the completion of the electoral process in Rivers. The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) had suspended the collation of the March 23 governorship elections in Rivers. The commission has fixed April 2 and 5 for collation, announcement of the results already generated while there ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, has struck out appeals by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Rev. Francis Waive, seeking the leave of court to challenge the judgement of the Federal High Court, Asaba, which nullified their elections. The court, in its ruling on Friday, dismissed the two applications for lacking merit. Senator Omo-Agege and Rev. Waive emerged ...

Aminu Tambuwal, the incumbent Governor of Sokoto State, has lampooned the military for the role it played in the just concluded elections in the state. The Governor expressed his sadness addressing pressmen in Sokoto on his projection for the next four years He said his victory was not bought with money or influenced by political powers but by the resilence ...

Forty-two political parties in Kano under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) in the state have rejected the results of the re-run governorship election of March 23. They alledged that the process was characterised by gross irregularities. The state CUPP chairman, Mohammed Abdullahi-Rahi, made the position of the group known while addressing a news conference in Kano ...

Incumbent Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau, the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau, has been declared winner of the rerun gubernatorial election in the State. Lalong gathered 595,582 votes to win, with his closest rival, Jeremiah Useni, a retired Army General who was the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), polling 546,813 votes. Prof Richard ...

Security operatives have blocked all major streets within Makurdi township as part of measures to enforce the restriction of movement order within the period of the supplementary elections in the state. It was learnt that all entry ad exit points in the town were blocked to prevent unauthorised movement of people and vehicles. Armed security personnel were seen at the ...

Mr Okoli Akirika, an Anambra-based legal practitioner, has hailed Friday’s judgment of the Osun Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Abuja, which declared Sen. Ademola Adeleke winner of the Sept. 2018 poll. Akirika, who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), described the judgment of the Justice Ibrahim Sirajo’s three-member tribunal as “a welcome development.” Adeleke of PDP ...

Sen. Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, says his moral authority plays a role in his ability to influence elections. He also said that other tools that helped him influence elections were his skills as a veteran politician and dedication to campaigning and mobilising his own party members. Tinubu said this on Friday in Lagos while responding ...

Yola High Court presided over by Justice Abdul-Azeez Waziri has fixed March 26 for ruling on a motion challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the case restraining INEC from conducting the March 23 supplementary governorship election in Adamawa. Waziri also extended an earlier interim injunction the court granted on March 14 restraining INEC from conducting the election pending ...