The Independent National Electoral Commission has opened the collation centre for the gubernatorial election in Kogi State. Collation was earlier announced to start by 10 a.m. on Sunday but had to be delayed due to rigorous screening of accredited media houses and Civil Society Organisations. There is a heavyContinue Reading
Hope Uzodimma, the incumbent, and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been declared the winner of Imo State governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Returning Officer for Imo State, Prof Abayomi Fashina, announced Uzodimma as the winner. According to the INEC’s state collation and returningContinue Reading
Collation of the results of the governorship election held in the state on Saturday will start by 10 a.m. on Sunday, the Resident Electoral Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission in Kogi State, Dr. Gabriel Longpet, has said. Longpet disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Lokoja.Continue Reading
By Naomi Sharang Elder statesman Edwin Clark has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate alleged irregularities reported in the Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi governorship elections held on Saturday. Clark, who made the call when a group, South-South Diamond Ladies paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja, saidContinue Reading
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the suspension of election in some parts of Kogi State. The Commission said it received reports from its officials in the State on incidences of electoral malpractices. According to the INEC, the incident of result sheets completed before voting was aContinue Reading
Yenagoa: Sorting and counting of votes have commenced in many polling units in Bayelsa after voting in the governorship election ended at 2.30pm. At PU 10, Agric Meeting Hall, Attissa 1, Yenagoa, the voting process ended at 2.30pm while sorting of ballot papers commenced at 2.35pm in the presenceContinue Reading
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, urged a Federal High Court, Abuja not to grant the ex-parte motion filed by Alhaji Lamidi Apapa-led Labour Party (LP), seeking to replace the party’s governorship candidate in Imo. INEC, in its affidavit to show cause pursuant to the court order,Continue Reading
By Flowerbudnews Enugu: The Deputy National Chairman South of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Emma Eneukwu, has appealed to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to reconsider its recent actions, which have raised concerns about the organization’s alignment with partisan politics. “This is at the expense of its primaryContinue Reading
Abuja: A Federal High Court, Abuja, has declined to grant a motion ex-parte brought by Alhaji Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) to stop Athan Achonu as governorship candidate of the Saturday’s election in Imo. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a short ruling, refused to grant the prayerContinue Reading
