2019 governorship election news

Governor Udom Emmanuel, the PDP governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom state has been declared the winner of the governorship election..... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2VP93oO Get More Nigeria Political News

Prince Dapo Abiodun, candidate of the All Progressives Congress has posted an appreciation of Almighty God and the people of Ogun state ahead of his official declaration as governor-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Collation of the results, council by council, … Read...

Not many know that the Kwara Governor-Elect, Abdul-Razaq Abdulrahman’s father is Ambassador AbdulGaniyu Abdul-Razaq, SAN, the first lawyer from Northern Nigeria. Abdul-Razaq Abdulrahman has six siblings...... Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2NVvohJ Get More Nigeria Political News

Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)has won the highest number of votes cast in five local government areas of the state in the governorship election. The results are being announced at the State Collation Centre at the headquarters … Read more...

Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the killing of a policeman and abduction of three INEC adhoc staff during the governorship and state assembly election in the state. The police also announced the killing of a civil defence officer in separate attack while on election duty. The...

Iniobong Ekong is a retired captain in the Nigerian army and a security aide to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Cletus Ukpong, he revealed how he was arrested by the Nigerian army on the eve of Nigeria’s presidential election. … Read more via...

According to multiple reports, a suspected thug met his end today at the hands of angry youths in Akwa Ibom state. According to reports, some thugs alleged to be working for the All Progressives Congress (APC), tried to hijack electoral materials … Read more via Naijaloaded –...

It was a sorrowful moment after a man identified as Sunday Odo, was shot at the home of Senator Ayogu Eze, the Enugu State gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Umuonu-Umuida, Enugu-Ezike. It was gathered that the deceased … Read more via Naijaloaded –...

Fear that the army may be working against some political parties in the governorship and state assembly elections in Rivers State were highlighted Saturday as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) complained that the military was preventing its accredited agents from accessing the collation...

A journalist with PremiumTimes, Kunle Sanni, was on Saturday abducted while taking photos of underage voters at a polling unit in Plateau State. Sanni was taking photos of the children who were brandishing their voters card when he was reportedly accosted by an APC agent who spotted him. The …...

Supporters of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Kano State governorship elections, Engr. Abba Yusuf, took to the streets of Kano on Saturday to celebrate an early lead. This came after news filtered through mobile phones that the party had recorded symbolic victories against...

The All Progressive Congress(APC) Gubernatorial candidate for Kwara state, Mr Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, is currently in an early lead according to collated results from Wards in the ongoing Gubernatorial elections across Nigeria. His closest opponent, Hon. Razak Atunwa, of the Peoples...

The All Progressives Congress has won the governorship and State Assembly elections at the polling unit of the Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Barnabas Bantex. Vote counting at the Polling Unit, Randiam Ninyo Allah, 009, Manchok Registration Area, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna...

Counting of votes has commenced in polling units in Bauchi, producing its first shocker as incumbent governor Muhammed Abubakar of APC lost his polling unit to Bala Mohammed of PDP. Announcing the outcome of the election in the governor’ s Gindin Durumi polling unit of Bauchi metropolis...

The House of Assembly elections in Ondo State has been characterized by vote buying across the State. Across the various polling units visited in the Central and Northern Senatorial District areas of the State, low turnout of voters was witnessed. According to some of the voters who … Read...

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has stated that he’s ready for governorship election to hold today......... Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2u1GW9T Get More Nigeria Political News

Barely few hours to governorship and State Assembly elections, gunshots from a robbery attack on Friday, in Manchok, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, sent residents and electoral officials running in all directions for safety. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who...

In Warri, Oshiomhole boasted that Governor Okowa should get his handover note ready, while Osinbajo maintained that the state could no longer afford to be ruled by PDP, comments that infuriated Gbagi, who upbraided them to be mindful of their utterances, as they cannot enslave Deltans...

Amidst pressure to buck the tide of a bandwagon, voters across the country go to the polls today to elect 29 governors and 991 members of the State Houses of Assembly in all 36 states of the country.... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2EYI30D Get More Nigeria Political News

Today, Nigerians vote in their sixth general governorship and state assemblies elections since the country’s return to democracy in 1999. Voters in 29 states would elect governors while new state assemblies would be elected in the 36 states. There are no governorship elections in Edo, Ondo...