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Some lawyers on Saturday faulted the open display of ballot papers by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) and the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, after casting their votes for their preferred candidates. They stated that though it was wrong for the President and the governor to openly engage in such an act, it would not affect the election results. …

•BVAS glitches, ballot snatching reign  The three leading presidential candidates were optimistic of victory in yesterday’s poll, the seventh in the Nigeria’s Fourth Republic that was marred by violence, delayed voting, Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, BVAS, hitches and snatching of ballot boxes in many locations across the country. The trio of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC; Alhaji Atiku …

The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Yakubu on Saturday said most of the alleged underage voters seen in viral videos during the election in Kano State might be suffering from stunted growth. Yakubu made the remarks while answering a question posed on the several footages circulating on social media, wherein some voters who appeared to be underage were seen …

VOTE-BUYING: ‘The MINT Printed N600bn In N1, 000 New Notes, Politicians Mopped It Up, “The challenge was that they printed the biggest denomination of N1, 000 notes instead of printing N200 and N500 that ordinary people would use. So the N1, 000 notes they printed, politicians have bought them. So, what is happening is a sabotage of the system”. •Says ministers, security …

Head of the Obi-Datti Media Team, Mr Diran Onifade, today warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), against manipulating the electoral process saying it will not accept any presidential election result that is not in tandem with the results issued at the polling units. He also raised the alarm over alleged moves to manipulate the Presidential Election results across the …

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence the collation of 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday at midday. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, announced this at a news conference on the 2023 general elections on Saturday in Abuja. Yakubu said results were expected by the commission from the states starting from Sunday. “I will like to …

Soldiers in Gombe State recovered two ballot boxes from thugs who snatched them from the Government Science Secondary School in the Jekadafari area of the state. The school was also the polling unit of the state’s Governor Muhammadu Yahaya. Yahaya was the North-East Coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council. The thugs appeared with guns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons …

President Muhammadu Buhari has won his polling unit in Saturday’s presidential and parliamentary elections for the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The APC presidential flagbearer, Sen. Bola Tinubu, won with 523 votes at the polling unit 003, Sarkin Yara A, Daura, Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party …

*Voters agitate results be uploaded immediately, fear rigging Labour Party (LP) won both presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday, leading APC, PDP, NNDP, others in 6 polling units within  Kubwa, Bwari Council, in Abuja. The six which had their polling center at Kubwa Nysc Camp, under the Kubwa, Bwari Council are Unit, 004, 036, 037, 038, 039, 040 respectively. The …

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday night commenced the process of uploading results to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV). Election results are now being published on the IReV following a successful election at some polling units across the country, as promised by the electoral body. Despite the postponement of elections in 141 polling units in Bayelsa, as well …