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INEC declares PDP’s Umo Eno Akwa Ibom governor-elect

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INEC declares PDP’s Umo Eno Akwa Ibom governor-elect

THE candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Umo Eno, has won the governorship election in the state.

Eno was declared the winner by the INEC returning officer in the state, Prof Emmanuel Adigio.

Adigio, the chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University, announced the PDP governorship candidate as the winner of the election, having met the conditions set for the election by Nigerian laws.

Eno won the election with 354,348 votes defeating his closest contenders from the All Progressive Congress and Labour Party.

APC candidate Akanimo Udofia got 129,602 votes, while the LP candidate Uduakobong got 4,746.

In total, Akwa Ibom has 68584 registered voters and 22993 accredited voters.

INEC declares APC’s Dapo Abiodun Ogun governor-elect

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INEC declares APC’s Dapo Abiodun Ogun governor-elect

THE Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Dapo Abiodun, winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Ogun state.

Abiodun got 13,915 votes to extend his tenure as the state governor.

Declaring Abiodun winner, the Returning Officer for Ogun State governorship poll Prof. Kayode Oyebode Adebowale, who is Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan said the Governor polled 276,298 to edge PDP’s Oladipupo Adebutu who scored 262,383 votes. 

The Candidate of the ADC Olubiyi Otegbeye came a distant third after polling 94,754

 

Infographics showing the results for the top three governorship candidates in Ogun

The ICIR gathered that 13 candidates participated in the Ogun State governorship election.

Hoodlums attack Cross River collation centre

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Hoodlums attack Cross River collation centre

A collation centre in Ogoja constituency, Cross Rivers, was attacked by hoodlums on Sunday, March 18, while the collation of election results was ongoing.

The state police spokesperson Irene Ugbo, confirmed the attack.

ICIR learnt that the hoodlums carted away phones, beat up many ward collation officers and disrupted the collation of results.

According to one of the collation officers attacked, Paul Bassey Inyang, the incident was triggered by a disagreement between party agents over the figures of the governorship election result for Nkum Irede ward.

Nkum Irede Ward’s result was the seventh out of the ten wards in Ogoja council and the Peoples Democratic Party was leading.

Inyang said the hoodlums that attacked the centre were over 30 in number.

He said his laptop and duplicate result sheets were all destroyed.

“One of my colleagues is still being treated in the theatre and I pray he comes out alive as heavy stones and planks were used on him,” he said.

2023 Governorship Poll: LP vows to resist attempt to upturn its ‘governorship victory’ in Abia, Enugu

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2023 Governorship Poll: LP vows to resist attempt to upturn its ‘governorship victory’ in Abia, Enugu

THE Labour Party (LP) chairman, Julius Abure, has vowed to resist what he called attempts by the governors of Abia and Enugu states to thwart the outcome of the elections in the two states, which he said were in favour of the LP.

Abure made this known in a statement he personally signed today and obtained by The ICIR.

Abure claimed that “INEC staff are held hostage at Obingwa Local Govt by Governor Ikpeazu and his cohorts to rewrite the results already compiled by INEC officials despite an order from the election body asking their staff to head to Umuahia to collate results for the election, which is in favour of Labour’s Alex Otti.”

He alleged that what the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had been found doing was not different from “the criminality orchestrated against our presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, during the February 25 presidential election.”

The LP chairman called on the Inspector-General of Police to intervene and ensure the transfer of all electoral materials to Umuahia where he believed the sanctity of the election and the safety of the officials in charge can be guaranteed.

He threatened that if this was not addressed, LP would be left with no choice than to mobilise “Obidients” all over the country to take over the streets across the length and breadth of the country.

 

 

 

26-year-old wins Kwara assembly seat

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26-year-old wins Kwara assembly seat

A 26-YEAR-OLD lady, Rukayat Shittu, has won a seat in the Kwara State House of Assembly.

Shittu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner of Owode Onire state constituency of Asa Local Government Area in the state on Sunday, March 19.

Announcing the result of the governorship and House of Assembly poll, which took place in the state on Saturday, March 18, Hakeem Ijaya, a professor, said Shittu scooped 7,521 votes to defeat her closest rival, Abdullah Magaji, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who won 6,957 votes.

The ICIR reports that Shittu will be one of the youngest lawmakers in the country’s history.

She is a former Senate President of the Congress of Students at the National Open University of Nigeria.

Multiple online posts, including this say Shittu, also known as RMS, hails from Manyan village, Onire district in Asa local government area of Kwara State. 

“RMS then proceeded to Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies, an affiliate of Bayero University Kano (then), where she obtained a diploma certificate in Mass Communication and Islamic Studies in 2015. 

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“After the diploma, RMS enrolled herself in a fashion design school where she learned about sewing women’s clothes. In 2017, she got admission to the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). She graduated in 2022 with Second Class (Upper Division) from the Mass Communication department.” 

The ICIR further reports that Shittu is an addition to the number of youths currently serving in the Kwara State government, as the state governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has a record of appointing young women into his cabinet.

In 2021, he signed the law reserving 35 per cent of all political positions for women.

Guber poll: Thugs invade INEC office in Abia

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Guber poll: Thugs invade INEC office in Abia

THUGS have invaded the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, where the votes from the March 18 governorhip and state assembly elections are being collates.

INEC disclosed this via its Twitter handle on Sunday, March 19.

INEC tweeted: “Thugs have invaded our Obingwa Local Government Area office in Abia State.

“Security agencies have been alerted. The Commission is monitoring the situation and will issue a statement shortly.”

Eighteen candidates are contesting for the governorship position in the state. 

The top candidates are: Ikechi Emenike of the APC, Gregory Ibe of APGA, Alex Otti of LP, and Okey Ahiwe, the candidate of the ruling PDP in the state.

APC clinches 23 out of 26 assembly seats in Ekiti

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APC clinches 23 out of 26 assembly seats in Ekiti

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has clinched 23 out of 26 State House of Assembly seats in Ekiti.

Going by the results released on Sunday, March 19 by the Head of Voters Education and Publicity, Temitope Akanmu, on behalf of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of Ekiti State, Ayobami Salami, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) failed to secure a seat in the State Assembly.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) won two seats in Ekiti East 1 and Ise/Orin constituencies, while the election for the seat in Ido/Osi 1 was inconclusive because of the slim margin of lead.

The REC explained that there is a need for a supplementary election to be held in three polling units in Ido/Osi 1 before a winner could emerge.

“This was borne out of violence, disruption of the voting process in PU 003, PU 012 and PU 014 in Ward 01,” the commissioner added.

He, however, noted that the APC won in Ikere 1, Irepodun Ifelodun 2, Ikole 1, Ekiti West 1, Emure, Ilejemeje, Ado 1, Ado 2, Ikere 2, Efon, Ekiti East 2, Ekiti South West, Ekiti South West 2, Ekiti South West 1, Ekiti South West 2, Ekiti West 2, Aiyekire, Ido/Osi 2, Ikole 2,  Ijero, Irepodun/Ifelodun 1, Moba 1, Moba 2, Oye 1 and Oye 2 constituencies.

Governorship Poll: INEC completes result upload for three LGAs in Lagos,17 more to go

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Governorship Poll: INEC completes result upload for three LGAs in Lagos,17 more to go

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has completed the uploading of results of three local government areas (LGAs) in Lagos state for the governorship election held on Saturday, March 18, leaving 17 LGAs yet to be completed, The ICIR can report.

The information posted on the INEC’s official portal showed that as at 3.45pm on Sunday, March 19, the governorship election results for Badagry (LGA – 06), Apapa (LGA – 05) and Lagos Island (LG –14) had been fully uploaded.

A total of 412 polling units’ results were uploaded to the INEC portal from 11 wards in the Badagry LGA; 374 from the 10 wards in Apapa LGA, and 389 from the 19 wards in Lagos Island LGA.

On the INEC portal, a total of 11,464 polling units’ results had been uploaded out of the overall 13,325 polling units results from all the 20 LGAs in the state, representing about 86 per cent of total results uploaded.

The winner of the governorship election is expected to be declared as soon as the results from all the polling units are completely uploaded to the portal.

Guber Polls: APC leading in Katsina, as Radda takes all 17 LGAs announced

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Guber Polls: APC leading in Katsina, as Radda takes all 17 LGAs announced

THE governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State, Dikko Umar Radda, has won in results from all the 17 local government areas of Katsina state that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced so far.

From the 17 LGAs, Dikko, a former Director-General of the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), polled 413,066 votes, while his closest rival from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lado Yakubu Danmarke, secured 213,737.

Katsina State has 34 local government areas.

There have, however, been reports from collation officers in the state of issues of over-voting and pockets of violence in most of the LGAs.

Results from the remaining LGAs are being awaited as collation continues.

PDP wins 21 of 22 LGAs in Akwa Ibom

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PDP wins 21 of 22 LGAs in Akwa Ibom

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Akwa Ibom State Umo Eno has taken the lead in the results announced from the March 18 governorhip election.

Eno cleared 21 of the 22 LGAs announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Young Progressives Party won in Ikono Local Government Area.

As a result, the PDP has won 21 out of the 31 local government areas in the state.

Eno won by a landslide victory in his local government area – Nsit Ubium.

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