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Some results are currently coming in from local government areas in the ongoing governorship election across the country. Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have concluded announcing results in polling units, wards and are now in LGA headquarters. Here are some of the results from wards. Lagos: Somolu LGA APC: 36,783 PDP: 3,130 LP: 15,096 Surulere APC 17,837 ...

Gen. Monguno spoke just as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, urged parties and political stakeholders to rein in their supporters. “Election is simply a contest and not a war,” Yakubu said. The duo spoke yesterday at a meeting of the Inter Agency Consultative Committee (IPAC) on Election Security at the INEC’s Abuja headquarters. ...

The independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Sunday admitted that it is experiencing some challenges with its Results Viewing Portal (IReV). In a press release on Sunday, Festus Okoye Esq, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee said that the commission is working towards fixing the issue. According to Okoye, the portal has been slow and not going ...

There is protest in Agudama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over shortage of about 48,500 ballot papers meant for the Yenagoa/Kolokuma/Opokuma Federal Constituency elections. The protesters, who gathered at Ward 4, Epie 1, which has 47 units, covering Agudama and Akenpai communities, are insisting that elections would not hold in their area until the missing ballot ...

It will be recalled that this platform, politico.ng, before the 2019 elections, came out with a projection that was spot on when compared with the actual result of the elections. We have decided to come out with another projection as the 2023 elections are less than 72 hours away. There are a handful of presidential candidates, but the major ones ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says the Osun State governorship election dispute has taught the Commission to transmit the accreditation details along with the election results to its IReV, INEC Results Viewing Centres. The INEC Director for Voter Education, Victor Aluko disclosed this while fielding questions on Arise Television’s News programme on Sunday. “The truth is, without prejudice to ...

Popular human right lawyer Femi Falana, has urged voters in Osun State to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for wasting their votes. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said this on Sunday during an interview on Arise TV. It would be recalled that the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke for overvoting at over 700 polling ...

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has pleaded with tthe Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to consider extending the deadline for the collection of the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs,. According to him, the move would enable all those who registered to obtain their cards to vote during the polls. He also advised the electoral umpire not to postpone the elections ...

As lots of stakeholder are warming up for the upcoming general elections, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has assured the citizens that the force will always give them and their property maximum security at all times. Speaking, the Force Public Relation Officer (FPRO), Mr. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, during an interview on Channels Television evening programme, “Politics Today”, assured fellow Nigerians that ...

Former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Kingsley Moghalu, has said illiteracy and poverty will have an influence on the outcome of the forthcoming general elections in 2023. Moghalu also said the number of people vulnerable to poverty and illiteracy is still more than those who are not. The former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, ...