Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared the winner of the presidential election. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),Mahmood Yakubu, announced the results in the early hours of Wednesday. Yakubu said Tinubu secured a total of 8,794,726 votes. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had the second-highest figure with 6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) was next with 6,101,533 votes. “I now perform my responsibility as chief returning officer of the federation,” the INEC chair said. “I, professor Mahmood Yakubu, hereby certify that…
Author: Victor Fola
Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Chief Barnabas Gemade has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Mahmud Yakubu to ignore calls by former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the cancellation of Saturday’s presidential election. Gemade who was addressing the press on Tuesday in Abuja, said the Obasanjo was a meddlesome interloper who has nothing at stake in the election. He said the calls for the cancellation of the elections by the former president was an assault on democracy and the rule of law which he described as an open incitement and…
The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress has warned the Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party to desist from heating up the polity with reckless statements smacking from their struggles to accept their looming defeat in the 2023 presidential election. In a press conference addressed by Dele Alake, its Special Adviser, Media, Public Affairs and Strategic Communication, it said that it was not surprised that both parties could form a coalition to sabotage a democratic process, saying it has always known that both parties were the same. The Tinubu campaign, however, warned them against “truncating 24 year democratic…
The Federal Government has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to truncate the 2023 General Elections with his inciting,s elf-serving and provocative letter on the elections. In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said what the former President cunningly framed as an ‘appeal for caution and rectification’ is nothing but a calculated attempt to undermine the electoral process and a willful incitement to violence. The Minister expressed shock and disbelief that a former President could throw around unverified claims and amplify wild allegations picked up from the street against the electoral…
A former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Alani Akinrinade (rtd), has condemned former president, Olusegun Obasanjo for attempting a sabotage of democracy in the country. Obasanjo had on Monday alleged that the results of last Saturday’s presidential election have been doctored and manipulated. He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene by calling for a review of the results collation process. In reaction, Gen. Akinrinade said Obasanjo’s statement is a diatribe into the body politic of Nigeria at such a delicate time. He said the intervention of the ex-president falls short of patriotism and fits perfectly into meddling in the…
Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has already conceded defeat for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the ongoing 2023 presidential election, urging the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar to do likewise and thereafter retire peacefully to Dubai. Fayose who is one the PDP’s stalwarts, in a series of tweets on Monday, expressed frustration over the leadership of the party and its electoral strategy that was bound to fail. Fayose said that the defeat was seen coming but an over-bloated sense of arrogance and self-entitlement from the leadership of the party ensured the party disgraced itself before the…
European Union (EU) Election Observer has lauded the officials and ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for a successful coordination of the 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections. Deleen Michel, one of the EU observers, described as ‘great’ the conduct of the election on Saturday. He said this at the INEC collation Centre in Surulere, Lagos on Sunday. “My big respect goes to INEC officials. They have been able to manage the polling centres very well. “The young people of Nigeria who man the polling centres were warm. They did a great job,” Michel said. Michel also…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign council has slammed the call by former President Olusegun Obasanjo seeking cancellation of the 2023 general elections over alleged manipulated results. EObasanjo had on Monday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent steps to address the tensions regarding allegations of discrepancies in election results. The former president has also said in areas found to have been affected by compromise, the elections should be cancelled and reconducted. In his reaction to the development, Dele Alake, spokesperson of the APC campaign council, accused the former president of “hypocrisy” and “mischief”, adding that “what Obasanjo is subtly…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election held in Ondo State on Saturday, February 25. According to INEC, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, scored 369,924 votes; Peter Obi of Labour Party, LP, 44,405 votes; Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, 115,463 votes, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, 930 votes.
The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress has cautioned the members of the Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party to stop inciting violence and making incendiary comments on the 2023 elections. It called out in particular Dino Melaye, Dele Momodu and a cleric, Pastor Paul Enenche to desist from making statements laced with violence threats. In a press conference overseen by the Special Adviser, Media and Communications, Dele Alake, it advised the opposition parties that rather than being sore losers looking for ways to scuttle the election process, they should be good democrats and accept defeat. Alake said,…