Concerned about the non-display of the presidential election result of 25th February election on the viewing portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yiaga Africa has said that the electoral body should explain to Nigerians why the gaps, even after it has displayed that of the National Assembly. Speaking on Arise TV, Samson Itodo, Executive Director of Yiaga Africa noted that it is very unusual that INEC has not been able to display the...

…Gov. Makinde unlucky as APC wins his polling unit Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, Gombe State Governor, and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Northeast Coordinator of Tinubu/Shettima National Campaign Council has failed to deliver his polling unit as Atiku Abubakar’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the polling unit with 215 votes against the APC 186 votes. Releasing the results after the count at the Yahaya Umaru unit 010, the Presiding Officer, Meshach Thomos,...

The Labour Party on Saturday got the majority of votes cast in Enugu on the Presidential and House of Representatives 2023 election. Despite all the hitches experienced at the beginning of the elections, the people patiently waited to exercise their civic responsibility. In most polling units in the state, the Independent National Electoral Commission ad hoc staff arrived the venue by 11:30am while in some cases as late as 2pm on Saturday 25th February 2023....

Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan says politicians who resort to violence or vote buying to win elections are not different from ‘armed robbers’ and ‘con men’. Jonathan, who spoke with journalists after casting his vote in Bayelsa, his home state, on Saturday evening, said he expects the elections to be peaceful while hoping that politicians will project Nigerian politics as a ‘clean business’. “My wish for Nigeria is for us to conduct a peaceful election,” the former...

■ Election: INEC advises, polls will commence as schedule ■ Postpones Enugu East-Senatorial election to March 11 ■ Police, security agencies deploy 425,106 personnel, 74 armoured,  carriers, drones, others ■ Confrms threats persists from IPOB, bandits, Boko Haram, insists election must go on ■ Constitute election offenses investigation unit in states ■ Restricts movement nationwide Prof Mahmood Yakubu , chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that polls will open nationwide as...

Simon Ekpa, the spokesperson of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has maintained that elections will not hold in the southeast after being freed by the Finnish police. Ekpa was reportedly arrested on Thursday morning by officers from the Finnish Central Criminal Police due to his constant threats to boycott elections in southeastern states in order to actualise the liberation of Biafra. However, he was released from police custody after hours of cross-examination. Earlier this...

In a rather dramatic turn of event, Emeka Ojukwu Jnr, the son of APGA’s supreme leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has dismissed claims by Hon. Chris Azubogu that he was “the true son of Ikemba.” A publication from Hon. Chris Azubogu’s supporters read in part, “Ojukwu lives on (in) the son of Ikemba Eze Igbo Gburugburu, and the spirit of Ikemba entered him and he went about doing projects. Vote Azubogu…” This was also accompanied by...