Senator Biodun Olujimi of the Peoples Democratic Party has lost her bid for re-election in Ekiti South Senatorial district as she was beaten by Prince Dayo Adeyeye of the All Progressives Congress.

INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Laide Lawal, announced the result on Sunday in Ikere.

Adeyeye, a journalist and lawyer scored 77,621 votes to beat Olujinmi, at present minority leader in the senate, who polled 53,741 votes.

The APC candidate won five out of the six local councils that make up the Senatorial District.

Similarly, the APC candidate Sen. Adetunmbi has been declared the winner of the Ekiti North Senatorial District poll.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Prof. Sunday Abayomi Fasina, declared
that Adetunmbi polled 60,689 votes to defeat the incumbent Senator Duro Faseyi of the PDP who recorded 49,209 votes.

Candidates of the All Progressives Congress in both Ekiti South constituency 1 and Ekiti North constituency II, Yemi Adaramodu and Olarewaju Ibrahim were declared the winners with a wide margin of victory respectively.

Adaramodu won with 41,864 as against the PDP opponent, Segun Adekola, who polled 24, 707.

In Ekiti North constituency II, Olarewaju Ibrahim of APC polled 29,388 votes to defeat his PDP opponent, Arch. Olusola Omotosho who won 23,684 votes.

Source: NAN

Senate President Bukola Saraki of the Peoples Democratic Party lost Asa Local government to the All Progressives Congress, according to the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

He was not the only one mourning the loss as the partys governorship candidate Razak Atunwa comes from Efue, in the council area. Atunwa is the incumbent House of Representatives member representing Asa and Ilorin West Federal Constituency.

According to INEC, while APC polled a total of 15, 932 votes, PDP scored 11, 252 votes

The result of the election was announced by the Returning Officer for ASA Local Government, Prof Emmanuel Sanya at the state office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ilorin on Sunday.

APC won in 12 of the 17 wards in in Asa while PDP won in five wards.

The Returning Officer said a total of 73, 425 voters were registered in the local government, while 29, 027 voters were accredited for the election.

Sanya said out of the 28, 815 votes cast, 27, 850 were valid with 956 votes rejected.

The returning officer said results are still being expected in three other local governments, Ilorin West, Ilorin East and Ilorin South, which make up the senatorial district.

Source: NAN

President Muhammadu Buhari has won Ekiti state, the first officially declared presidential election result by Independent National Electoral Commission.

In the result announced by the returning officer, Professor Idowu Olayinka, vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Buhari of the All Progressives Congress polled 219,231 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party got 154,032 votes.
PDP 154,032.

Total valid votes were 381,132, rejected votes 12,577, while total total votes were 393 709.

The APC has already won two of the senate seats for the state and several House of Representative seats.

Source: NAN

By Maureen Atuonwu

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the National Assembly polls in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State.

Announcing the result in Awgu on Sunday, the INEC Returning Officer in the council, Prof Emmanuel Eze disclosed that the PDP polled 18, 879 votes while the All Progressives Congress (APC) got 2,710 for Enugu West senatorial seat.

For the House of Representatives, Eze said the PDP polled 18, 958 followed by the APC with 2,817 votes and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), 1,335 votes.

The returning officer said that valid votes cast were 23,607 out of the total 24,442 registered voters with 840 void votes.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the senatorial contest was between the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu of the PDP and Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, former Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Justice Reform for the APC.

NAN reports that PDP two term lawmaker; Toby Okechukwu is contesting with an ace broadcaster, Obiora Ilo of the African Independent Television (AIT) for the APC for Awgu/Aninri/Oji River federal constituency.

Source: NAN

The Chairman, Central Working Committee of the Women and Youth Campaign Team of APC Presidential Campaign Council, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), has alleged plans to manipulate results by opposition in South East and South South.

Marwa raised the alarm Sunday in a press briefing in Yola.

We will like to draw the attention to the fact that there are plans afoot for massive manipulation of results by the opposition in South East and South South through the unleashing of violence from tonight onwards with a view to altering election results by using total registered voters instead of accredited voters to change final result figures.

We therefore urge security agencies and INEC to monitor this information very closely and act swiftly to forestall this nefarious intention.., Marwa said.

Marwa who voted in Adamawa lauded members of Buhari campaign team for their effective mobilisation for the reelection of Buhari whose victory he said was certain.

We thank millions of APC members and supporters who trooped out to vote on February 23, 2019, despite the initial postponement.

We thank our agents who stood their grounds to ensure our results were not tampered with and our mandate protectors who kept eagle eyes on the process, Marwa said.

Meanwhile, the people of Adamawa are awaiting the results of the Presidential and National Assembly election in the state.

Source: NAN

Senate President Bukola Saraki needs about 20,000 votes to close the gap between him and Dr. Ibrahim Oloriegbe, the APC challenger in the race for the Kwara Central senatorial district.

Saraki further lost pace with Oloriegbe following the announcement of the result of Ilorin East Local government, the second local government in his senatorial district.

Oloriegbe had beaten Saraki, 15, 392 votes to 11, 252 in Asa. In Ilorin East LG, he outpaced Saraki 30,014 votes to 14,654 votes, stretching the gap to 19,500 votes.

The results were announced by INEC.

Results from Ilorin West and ilorin South are still being expected.

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Source: NAN

President Muhammadu Buhari is leading Abubakar Atiku by a wide margin in Yobe state after results in five local governments were declared at the presidential collation centre in Damaturu, the capital.

Prof. Abubakar Gundiri, Vice Chancellor, University of Wukari, who declared the results as returning officer, said Buhari polled 12,227 votes in Gujba while Atiku scored 325 votes.

In Tarmuwa local government, BUhari scored 12,122 votes against Atikus 1, 269 votes.

In Damaturu local government, APC scored 35,772 votes against PDPs 2,099 while in Karasuwa local government, APC polled 22,377 to beat PDP which has 3,692 votes.

The APC scored 14,619 votes in Machina local government to beat PDP which has 2,315 votes.

Yobe has 17 local governments. Results are still being awaited in 12 councils.

Source: NAN

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has blasted the Peoples Democratic Party for behaving irresponsibly in making a call for the declaration of Atiku Abubakar as winner of Saturdays presidential election.

The PDP should stop acting the role of spoiled children who threaten to upset the dinner table if not fed their preferred meal, APC National publicity secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu said.

The PDP had called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as winner of Saturdays Presidential election, saying it has results that its candidate had won.

APC said the call was an unwarranted attack on democracy and Nigerians and shameful.

The PDP in that press statement, recklessly calls on the INEC to arbitrarily declare its candidate, Atiku Abubakar the winner of the presidential election.

This call is shameful and alarming; unwilling to wait for INEC, the constituted legal authority to complete its task, the PDP seeks a short cut by false and premature claims of victory, this cannot stand.

Our nation is trying to perfect its democracy, not turn it into a mockery. Sadly, this objective is lost to the PDP, Issa-Onilu said.

He noted that because the PDP wanted the presidency so badly, it had engaged in all manner of misconduct and spared little cost to achieve its aim.

He added that the PDP now believes that it is entitled to claim victory notwithstanding the vote and will of the people.

This, Issa-Onilu added is not the way of democracy, saying that democracy meant that the people should choose for themselves not that the PDP should choose for them.

That may have been the way in the past when they engineered and kidnapped elections to achieve their desired end not withstanding the true will of the people.

Thankfully, those days are gone and gone forever. These elections are supposed to be democratic exercises not a platform for the PDP to impose their selfish designs on a hopeful nation,he said.

The APC spokesman, however, advised the PDP to honour and follow the sovereign will and sober dignity of the Nigerian people.

He added that the people patiently waited the additional week for Election Day to come, noting that the vast majority of Nigerians again exercised patience as they peacefully voted on Election Day.

Unfortunately, he said, isolated incidents of violence and disruption of the exercise occurred in some places which saddened the APC.

Issa-Onilu recalled that some Nigerians died on Saturday during the election, saying that this should never had happened and should never happen again during an election of any kind in the country.

He stressed that the deaths were a needless tragedy that mar what was otherwise a celebration of Nigerias maturing democracy.

He added that instead of the discordant and provocative statement it released, the PDP should be appealing for peace and for INEC to diligently and thoroughly perform the vital task assigned it.

Issa-Onilu alleged that majority of violent incidents and reports of electoral malpractice on the election day, emanated from PDP controlled states.

The PDP press statement is but a continuation of the sordid games the party has mastered, while all evidence points to the misconduct of their people, they make outlandish and false claims against the APC.

This is but the typical modus operandi of a master swindler. They seek to distract the public eye from their own wrongs, by falsely accusing the APC of the very things they had conspired to set in motion months before this election.

From trying to falsify results on the ground to attempts at hacking the INEC software, they are willing to say and do anything to obtain victory, no matter how tainted by the wrongs they commit.

He advised that the PDP should behave more responsibly instead of acting the role of spoiled children who threaten to upset the dinner table if not fed their preferred meal.

On our part, the APC has governed and campaigned as we believed was right, because of this, we are content to await the verdict of the people, Issa-Onilu said.

He added that the APC believe that only INEC had the authority to announce election results.

He noted that what the PDP was trying to do by claiming without any factual basis that Atiku had won the election, was to usurp INECs constitutional authority.

Issa-Onilu maintained that PDPs words were rash eruptions and may incite needless violence and unrest, adding that it should live up to the status it claimed for itself as a large political party.

He advised that the PDP should behave more responsibly instead of acting the role of spoiled children who threaten to upset the dinner table if not fed their preferred meal.

He encouraged INEC to do its job as mandated by law and by good conscience and not by the screams of those who does not fully believe in good ideals.

We hope INEC can begin to release results soon and do so in a way that protects and honours the vote of every Nigerian who cast a ballot.

We also ask our members and supporters to exercise patience and conduct themselves peacefully. Democracy is a contest of issues and visions, not one of muscle and fighting.

Let there be no more violence among us, remember that we are all Nigerians and belong to the same national family despite our political differences.

On this day, may democracy and sovereign will of the electorate reign. There is no worthy substitute for this despite the malign protestations of the PDP, Issa-Onilu said.

He maintained that if Nigeria is to stand for something, let it be democracy and assurance of a brighter future

Source: NAN

The Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, failed to hold his polling unit in Yola, Adamawa state on Saturday as he lost it to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The official count of ballots at Ajiya unit 02 in Gwadabawa Ward of Yola North Local Government Area gave Atiku 167 votes, while Buhari got 186 votes, out of the 365 votes cast at the centre.

The Assistant Presiding Officer, Mr Abdulrasheed Mohammed, who announced the results, said a total of 365 votes were cast for the presidential election at the unit.

Similarly, the Senatorial candidate and House of Representatives candidates of the APC defeated their PDP counterparts at the unit.

Aishatu Dahiru the senatorial candidate of APC, got 185 votes to defeat Mohammed Chubado of PDP who got 120 votes, while APC House of Representative candidate scored 145 votes to defeat his PDP counterpart who got 121 votes.

At Lamidos Palace polling unit 010, Atiku also lost to Buhari.

He polled 138 votes, while Buhari got 228 votes, according to INEC presiding officer Idris Yunusa.

At Voting Point 04 of Polling Unit 11, in Bako ward in Yola, where Mr Nuhu Ribadu, a former chairman of EFCC voted, APC polled 142 ahead of PDPs 79 votes. APC scored 549 in the unit, while PDP got 304.

Bako ward is not far from Ajiya ward, the polling area of the PDPs presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

In unit 001, APC got 122 ahead of PDPs 60; in unit 002 the ruling party polled 298 to defeat PDP which got 68.

In unit 003, PDP polled 143 behind APCs 319. APC also scored 278 in unit 004 to defeat PDP which got 144.

At unit 005, APC scored 196 while PDP polled 53. Unit 006 was also cleared by APC with 308 to PDPs 54 votes. At unit 007 Mr Buhari equally defeated Mr Abubakar with 263 votes against PDPs 85.

The results are not surprising to political observers. President Buhari won Adamawa in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. In 2007, Atiku was on the ballot for ACN, and he still lost the state to Buhari.

Source: NAN

President Muhammadu Buhari won 462 votes at the Idigba Ilorin polling unit 004 of the partys governorship candidate, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak.

Buharis votes more than double the figure scored by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party. He got 167 votes.

All the APC candidates trounced their PDP counterparts at the unit.

The APC won the senatorial poll with 473 votes to beat PDPs Senator Bukola Saraki who polled 211.

The APC also defeated the PDP in the House of Representatives election, winning 484 votes as against PDPs 200.

AbdulRazaq comes from the same Ilorin West local government of Kwara Central as Saraki.

The APC candidate had earlier told reporters his party was headed for a landslide victory against the PDP, saying the people of the state were tired of poor governance and corruption which he said the PDP represents in Kwara.

Saraki however won his own polling unit at Agbaji Quarters, Ajikobi Ward, Ilorin West LGA and also delivered for Atiku Abubakar.

In the presidential election, Atiku Abubakar polled 219 votes while Muhammadu Buhari polled 68 votes.

Saraki scored 269 votes in the senatorial election to defeat APC which polled 60 votes.

PDP also recorded victory in the House of Reps election with 253 votes to APCs 53 votes.

Source: NAN