The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Benue State. Tinubu polled 310,468 to outpace Peter Obi of the Labour Party who scored 308,372 votes. Also, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 130,081 votes to come a distant third, while Rabiu…
Ikenga Ugochinyere, spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should halt the collation of presidential election results.There have been concerns over the non-functionality of thebimodal voter verification system (BVAS) and missing results on the INEC result viewing portal, among others. In a statement on Tuesday, Ugochinyere, a…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has emerged as the winner of the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Mr Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, secured 281,717 votes, Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC polled 90,902 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP got 74,199 votes. The Labour Party candidate defeated his closes…
As the result of Saturday’s presidential and National assembly elections continue trickling in, there has been growing concern over uploading of blurry result sheets on the INEC portal. Checks by our reporter observed that figures in some of the result sheets uploaded as of the time of filing this report are not visible. Tribune Online earlier reported that…
A delegation of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), led by the Minister of the Federal Capital Minister, has delivered $1m support fund to the Turkish government, The PUNCH has learnt. Bello and other members of the delegation were received by the Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, at the Ministry of Foreign…
How the 2023 general elections was systematically compromised. 1. Irrespective of how sharp the snapped result is, the BVAS degrades it to a very poor quality file. 2. All units had to do offline login, instead of online. Thus, the PU results were not submitted directly to the inec server. 3. In many areas, the…
CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED WITH THE INEC RESULTS VIEWING PORTAL (IReV) The Commission is aware of challenges with the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV). Unlike in off-season elections where the portal was used, it has been relatively slow and unsteady. The Commission regrets this setback, especially because of the importance of IReV in our results management process. The…
A PDP ward Collation agent in Mbacher ward, Katsina Ala Local Government Area, Hon. Eunoch Mson Atsehe has slump and died at a collation center in Katsina Ala town. He is from Mbacher ward, the largest ward in Katsina Ala Local Government area , with the largest voting population. But due to insecurity , the collation…
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE WRITE UP. I know many may wonder why I am posting this now or speaking about it now after four years. Well today’s situation was a reminder of how she mocked others privately and minimized their sufferings. But she felt the need to scream today because she was directly affected.You do…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has won the Etim Ekpo local government area of Akwa Ibom state in the presidential election conducted on Saturday, February 25. Premium Times reports that Tinubu polled 5,182 to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar, who got 4,733, the candidate of the Labour…