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Breaking News: Suspension of Electoral Processes in River State https://www.nairaland.com/5071094/inec-suspends-rivers-state-election

According to the Okochikwu Francis, the Local Government Collation Officer who announced the governorship result in the LGA on Sunday, said the new party polled a total vote of 44,857 compared to the miserly 5,866 votes polled by the PDP. Also, the party won in the governorship election in...

The assistant presiding officer at the polling unit, Irga Samuel, said the exercise went on without any hitches. Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2Tv9qYU -- Get More Nigeria Political News

Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as being the chief proponents of fake news in the country. The governor said this in Saturday night just as the Independently National Electoral Commission, INEC was still. collating results for Read...

However, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was ahead in Adamawa, Enugu, Delta, Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom States. Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2ENgeqP -- Get More Nigeria Political News

The Kwara State All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Mr Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, is leading in the governorship election held on Saturday. As of 9.30am on Sunday, results declared in 11 out of 16 local government areas in the state showed that the APC candidate had polled Read...

Former factional Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Mukaila, a.k.a. Auxiliary, who was reportedly released from prison last year just lost his wife. Unconfirmed report, says Mukaila Auxiliary’s wife was shot dead in … Read more via...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday declared candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winners of Lagos Island House of Assembly Constituencies 1 and 2 in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the results were declared at the INEC office...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has commiserated with the family of slain Oyo lawmaker, Olatoye Temitope, who was shot at a polling unit during Saturday’s elections in the state. Mr Olatoye, the lawmaker representing Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency of the state...

The transport minister, Rotimi Amaechi, says Saturday’s elections in Rivers State were “relatively peaceful” compared to the previous exercise. In a statement from his media office on Saturday evening, Mr Amaechi, who leads the All Progressives Congress in the state, commended the security...