2019 general election news

Mr Salihu Adamu Musa, INEC Electoral Officer in Bokkos Local Government of Plateau State on Monday apologised over the “shameful” behaviour of the Returning Officer deployed to the area. Musa was responding to a question raised by APC Collation Officer in Pankshin, Mr Emmanuel Bok, who sought...

Heart-wrenching picture of late INEC ad hoc staff’s husband crying over her body after being killed in Rivers state .... Read more via Instablog9ja – https://ift.tt/2H3dVmf Get More Nigeria Metro News

Hundreds of supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State yesterday took to the streets of Yenagoa, the state capital to protest the conduct of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the collation and declaration of results of the presidential...

Gunmen suspected to be political thugs have killed a police Corporal identified as Sunday Idoko while on election duty in Ilaro area of Yewa- South local government area of Ogun state. The late police Corporal was allegedly shot dead around 8p.m Sunday night at Eredo axis of Yewa … Read...

The Akwa Ibom Liberation Movement has accused Senator Godswill Akpabio of attempting to disrupt the peaceful conduct of elections in the state. In a statement on Monday, February 25, 2019, by its leader, Emmanuel Sam, the group described Akpabio as "a man allergic to free, fair … Read more...

US government urges all candidates to honour the Peace Accord they signed INEC announces official results. United States government say Nigeria’s election was predominantly peaceful The US government congratulates Nigerians for peaceful conducts. Symington also expresses deepest sympathy to...

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) agent reportedly caused a commotion at the Ikeja Collation Centre, Ikeja Local Government, when he overturned the INEC staff table to protest election results on Sunday night. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the disagreement started when the...

Some giants have fallen in the fierce battle for the Senate – going by results announced by the electoral umpire. Dr. Bukola Saraki lost his bid to return to the … Read more via The Nation Newspaper Nigeria – Latest Nigeria news update – https://ift.tt/2U5zExn Get More Nigeria Political News

Ekweremadu of PDP wins 5th term in Enugu West Senatorial District Ekweremadu polled 86,088 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu .... Get More Nigeria Political News

The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress has called for the immediate arrest of a Peoples Democratic Party’s chieftain, Alhaji Buba Galadima, over alleged plan to release fake presidential results. The council said the plot was fallout of the Dubai strategies of the …...

The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress has been declared by INEC collation officer of Kwami local government Prof. Umar Gurama, of federal university Kashere, who declared the results for the Gombe North Senatorial district. Alkali polled a total of 152,546 to defeat his … Read more...

The governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has stormed the Imo West election collation centre in Orlu where the returning officer for the district, I.I Ibeabuchi, had halted the collation process. PREMIUM TIMES had earlier reported how Mr Ibeabuchi, a professor, stopped the collation after...

The candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari, has emerged the winner in Osun State. Mr Buhari beat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the presidential election held on Saturday in Osun State and officially announced by...

The Okota OPC leader, Demola, who was said to have survived the lynching of a mob, is currently recuperating at a hospital after being rescued by an Igbo family. Demola was reported to have stormed a polling unit with his boys to dsiruot proceedings there … Read more via Nigeria News |...

Governor Nasir El- Rufai of Kaduna state has reacted to reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for the state has been locked in the Kaduna State government house. The report further claimed that Dambazau Minister of Interior and...

The results collated yesterday at the Anambra State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showed that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has won in four local government areas so far announced. But the Minister of Labour...

The police have arrested 128 persons across the country for various electoral offences and recovered 38 assorted weapons from them. The suspects were apprehended for homicide-related crimes including vote-buying, ballot box snatching, impersonation and malicious damage amongst others...

President Muhammadu Buhari spent some good time today at this farm hometown, Daura, Katsina State while awaiting the results presidential election. Recall that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar defeated the All Progressives Congress (APC)...

Official senatorial results for four of the nine local governments in Oyo South Senatorial District have been announced. The senatorial candidate of the ruling APC in the state, Abiola Ajimobi, lost in all four. Mr Ajimobi, the outgoing governor of Oyo State, seeks to return to the Senate to …...

Atiku wins in 10 local governments in Ondo official results...... https:///CLoVLSd0a9 Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2T97gxj Get More Nigeria Political News