Day: February 26, 2023

The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu on Sunday declared the National Collation Centre open in Abuja. He also set the ground rules for the proceedings. INEC Chairman has however appealed to political parties and the media to draw their figures only from the figures released by INEC as the only body. There are different results from different polling units flying around on social media. Having declared the centre open and considering the fact that some polling units across the country where elections were scheduled to…

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By Magnus Aluma The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) of ” having deliberately refused to upload the results” of yesterday’s presidential election collated in Lagos and Delta States to the Central Server of the electoral umpire. In a statement, Abure alleged that INEC officials have connived with security agencies to claim that the BVAS have suddenly developed fault and therefore cannot function. He said he was reliably informed party members in the field, that in places like Agege,…

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By NewsBits The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has now uploaded over 15000 results on her portal (https://www.inecelectionresults.ng/elections/63f8f25b594e164f8146a213). So, our reasers can now click on that INEC portal and follow through to your PU level and see if your polling unit has been uploaded and also check if it is the same thing you have on your physical result sheet given by the presiding officers. If you cannot find your result or does not tally you can begin to make the right call. In addition, you can also open an…

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INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu By NewsBits The Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced the upload of polling unit results of the 2023 presidential results on its website. As of 11:35p.m. on Saturday, 4,102 polling unit results, out of the 176,846, had been uploaded. A civil society group, Yiaga Africa, had earlier expressed concern over the failure of INEC to upload results on its result viewing portal hours after the counting of votes had begun in some polling units across the country. The portal, known as INEC Rev, was designed…

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By NewsBits The Independent National Electoral Commission has threatened to cancel election results of crisis-ridden areas during the presidential and National Assembly elections in Kogi State. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Hale Longpet, sounded the warning while reacting to the crises that erupted in some Local Government Areas while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lokoja. There were reports of interference of thugs in some polling units in Anyigba and Dekina in the Kogi East and Mopa in the Kogi West as well as parts of…

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By NewsBits The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is currently leading in many polling units in the Lekki area of Lagos State, ahead of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. Lagos is considered to be Tinubu’s strongest hold. In a combined result from three polling units, PU 035, PU 005, PU 004, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: LP – 850 APC – 17 PDP-  5 NNPP- 0 ADC- 2 VOID- 3 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APC –  17 LP –  135 PDP-  560 NNPP -0 Polling Unit…

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Political thugs destroy ballot boxes in Edo State allegedly won by Labour Party candidates By NewsBits The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arrested nine vote-buying agents in Osun, Ondo, Borno, Akwa Ibom and Sokoto States during the presidential and national assembly elections, which held nationwide on Saturday. Reports reaching our newsroom have it that the elections in parts of Lagos State, Edo State, Port Harcourt and so on were marred by series of irregularities, which include vote buying, disenfranchised voters, refusal to upload the result by…

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By NewsBits What was supposed to be a smooth election turned violent in Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki’s home of Ward 4 in Oredo Local Government Area when some hoodlums violently attacked officials of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) when it appeared that the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Gregory Obi was coasting home to victory. Irked that Governor Obaseki’ Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was losing to LP during vote counting, the hoodlums appeared with guns blazing and fired sporadically. The gunmen made away with some of the…

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has cast his vote in the ongoing Presidential and National Assembly elections. The former President voted at his ward 11, polling unit 22, Olushomi compound, at Abeokuta North in Ogun State, southwest of Nigeria.

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