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Senate Leader, Abdul Ningi, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lost his bid to return to the upper chamber, as Isah Misau of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared the winner of his Bauchi Central Senatorial District. The INEC Collation Officer for the Bauchi Central, Dr. Mohammed Yakubu, while declaring the results yesterday, announced that Misau scored 208, …

PORT HARCOURT—The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has said that video clips which show the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, allegedly rigging last Saturday’s election were available. He said the videos which clearly justify claims by his party that the elections were manipulated to favour the PDP were intact. Dakuku maintained that the …

The agent of the Peoples Democratic Party at the announcement of the presidential election in Abuja, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, is currently disrupting the continuation of the presentation of the results. Shouting on top of his voice, Orubebe, a former Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, alleged that INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, had taken side with the All Progressives Congress. …

The Ambassador of the United States to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, has applauded the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission to use the Permanent Voter Card in the general elections which commenced on Saturday. The ambassador, who spoke with journalists at the International Conference Centre, venue of the National Collation Centre of the election results, on Sunday said Nigeria’s …

In order to forestall the likelihood of breakdown of law and order before and after the announcement of the result of Saturday’s presidential election, the Federal Government is considering a 24 hour total nationwide security lockdown. According to a top security source, the Federal Government, bearing in mind the simultaneous violence that greeted the release of 2011 election result, is …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that despite the extension of the Saturday’s elections till Sunday in some parts of the country, the complete ‎results of the presidential poll will be declared on Monday. INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who gave this assurance on Sunday, however, said as of Sunday evening, results of the polls had only been completely …

Thousands of supporters of opposition party on Sunday demonstrated in the southern state of Rivers, calling for the cancellation of elections locally because of alleged irregularities. The demonstrators from the All Progressives Congress (APC) converged on the local offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state capital, Port Harcourt. All Progressives Congress (APC) party supporters march towards …

Policemen fired gunshots at INEC office on Aba Road, Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, around on Sunday as the protest against Saturday’s elections in the state began to heightened. The incident happened after APC supporters surrounded an SUV in front of the Commission’s office, believed to have the PDP governorship candidate in the state, Nyesom Wike, inside it. After …

Tension heightened in Rivers, Anambra and Enugu states on Saturday following bombings, killings and arrests in some polling units. In Rivers State, a soldier and two civilians were shot dead by suspected political thugs at polling centres in Ozuoha and Kpite in Ikwerre and Tai Local Government Areas of the state. Sources said the gunmen opened fire where prospective voters …

Even in the face of provocation of gargantuan proportions occasioned by the episodic failure of the Smart Card Readers, SCRs, Nigerians persevered, were patient and eventually voted at yesterday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. It was, indeed, the dawn of a new electoral process for a nation that had been reeling under the unbearably crushing weight of a shambolic voting …