The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, said they will seek redress in court. They all spoke Sunday after the declaration of Tinubu as president-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP described Tinubu’s victory as “a grave injustice which will…
Introduction For the Saturday, February 25 presidential election, Yiaga Africa employed the Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) methodology and deployed 3,014 observers in pairs to a representative random sample of 1,507 polling units, 822 mobile observers in all 774 local government areas (LGAs), in the 36 states and the FCT. This deployment strategy enabled Yiaga Africa…
ON Tuesday, June 11, 2019, the 9th Senate came into being and the Senator representing Yobe North, Dr Ahmad Lawan, All Progressives Congress, APC, was elected the President of the Senate, with Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, APC, Delta Central becoming his deputy. From the outcome of the February 25, 2023, Presidential and National Assembly elections, what…
Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, says Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has set up a committee to meet with presidential candidates of other parties for reconciliation. He said the committee comprises elders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).Akeredolu spoke on Wednesday in Abuja during the presentation of the certificate of return to Tinubu and…
Following Wednesday’s declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s President -elect and the controversy that trailed it, some foreign media organisations have given adequate reports on it with varied headlines which might shape the future of Nigeria. Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner of the tightly contested race by…
Adewole Adebayo, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), says Peter of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should concede to Bola Tinubu. His statement comes amid calls by the LP and PDP for Mahmood Yakubu, the chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) on Tuesday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the 2023 general election. Rufa’i Alkali, the National Chairman of the NNPP, stated this while addressing a press conference in Abuja. According to him, Alkali, the elections were characterized by intimidation, voter suppression, and vote buying. The NNPP…
The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday evening, was announced the winner of the February 25 presidential election in Borno State, having polled the highest number of votes amongst 17 other candidates. Tinubu who polled 252,282 votes across the 27 local government areas was declared the winner by the Borno State Presidential…
A section of the multi-billion naira Blue Rail Mass Transit project at Marina, Lagos State, has been gutted by fire. It was learnt that the section, which houses a generator used in the facility, was affected by the fire on Tuesday. However, no life was lost and no one was injured, as the fire was quickly…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have instituted a suit to restrain the Labour Party (LP) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from doing anything to stop the collation and announcement of the results of the February 25 presidential election. In the suit filed before the Federal High…