•David Ombugadu and Abdullahi Sule The protesting women, youths and other residents of Nasarawa State have vowed to continue with their demonstrations until justice is served to those who voted for the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, David Ombugadu, during the March 18, 2023 election in the state. The All Progressives Congress...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it would conduct fresh electiion in nine wards where election was suspended in Kogi State. INEC had yesterday suspended election in nine wards in Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of Kogi State, reports The PUNCH. This suspension was as a result of electoral malpractices, particularly th...
INEC has again adjourned the collation of governorship election results from the local government areas in Bayelsa State to 6pm today. The State Returning Officer, Prof Kuta Farouq, announced this adjournment after the collation of results from Sagbama, Nembe and Ekeremor LGs. The two remaining local governments are Brass and Southern Ijaw.
•Usman Ododo The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Kogi State governorship election, Usman Ododo, is currently leading other candidates in the race. This is as the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, has officially announced the results from 18 out of the 21 Local Government Areas of th...
Governor of Bayelsa State and candidate of the PDP, Senator Douye Diri, has established an early lead in the governorship election held yesterday in the state. Results from the polling units in Ogbia, Nembe, Brass, Sagbama, Ekeremor, Kolokuma-Opokuma, Yenagoa and parts of Southern Ijaw indicated that the governor was ahead of the other candida...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has adjourned the state collation of results for the Bayelsa governorship election. The Returning Officer for the election Faruk Adamu Kuta announced this late yesterday at the INEC Collation Centre in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The exercise was also adjourned in Kogi State, reports Channels TV...
•Votes collation Voting has ended in many polling units in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states for the governorship elections in the three states. Voting ended around 3pm in polling units observed by our correspondents in the three states, reports Channels TV. Electoral officials thereafter crossed the unused ballot papers as stipulated in the electo...
A young man, Umoru Iduh, was reportedly shot dead at the Agala-Ogane polling unit in the Anyigba metropolis in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi East for attempting to snatch electoral materials. It was learnt Iduh was gunned down around 10 am while the voting was about to commence at the said polling unit in […]
Tension was high at the Orji Town Primary School in Owerri North as vote-buying allegations nearly marred the governorship election at the centre. The centre housing unit 005, 006, and 007 was peaceful but an argument erupted intermittently between party agent who seemed hell-bent on canvassing to buy votes for their parties, reports Saturday ...
•INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa State has said that it decided to use only permanent staff of the Commission as Supervisory Presiding Officers in today’s governorship elections in the state to protect the sanctity of the process. It was however learnt that about 26,000 security pers...

