POLITICS
Tinubu Wins Presidential Poll in Kwara, Niger, Ondo, Ekiti
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has won the presidential election in Niger state.
Tinubu polled a total of 375,183 votes to defeat his main rivals in the elections in the state.
The results from the 25 local government areas of the state announced by the presidential election Collation Officer for Niger state, Professor Clement Alawa in Minna revealed that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar came second with 284,898 votes
Mr.
Peter Obi, the Labour Party, LP, candidate scored 80,452 votes while the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso came a distant fourth with 21836 votes.Similarly, the APC Presidential candidate won last Saturday Presidential election in all the 16 local governments in Kwara State.
According to the results of the Presidential election collated at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ilorin which was concluded in the early hours of yesterday, the APC candidate polled a total of 263,572 votes in the election while Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the PDP scored 136,909 votes and Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi scored 31,166 votes in the election.
APC won in Asa, Baruteen, Ilorin West, Ilorin East, Ilorin South, Moro, Kaiama, Patigi and Ekiti local government areas.
Others are Edu, Ifelodun, Irepodun, Oke-Ero, Isin, Offa and Oyun local government areas.
The total number of registered voters for the election was 1,695,928 while the accredited voters were 497,519.
Total valid votes recorded in the election were 469,971 while rejected votes stood at 26,712 with the total votes cast was recorded as 496,683.
Tinubu also emerged victorious in Ondo State.
Presenting the Ondo State results, the State Collation Officer, Prof. Mrs Folashade Ogunshola, said the APC also won with 369,924 votes.
Ogunshola, who is VC UNILAG, said that the PDP polled 115,463, LP- 47,350 votes and ADC-5,612 votes.
She gave the total number of registered voters in the state as 1,991,344, accredited voters during the election as 571,402, and total votes cast put at 570,017 while 19,009 votes were rejected due to over voting.
Breakdown of votes polled by other parties in the state according to Ogunshola are: Accord- 414, AA-196, AAC-890, ADP-1,266, APGA-1206, APM-319, APP-235, BP-200, NNPP-930, NRM-347, PRP-246, SDP-1,293, YPP-340 and ZLP-4,683.
The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, also emerged winner of Saturday election in Ekiti State.
The APC flagbearer won in Ekiti State with 201,494 votes out of the 314,472 votes cast, according to results released by INEC Ekiti State Collation Officer, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, on Sunday.
Lasisi, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila-Orangun, Osun State, said the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, scored 89,554 votes.
The Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, polled 11, 397 votes; while Prince Adewole Adebayo of Social Democratic Party (SDP) recorded 2,011 votes.
Other parties results, according to INEC are: Accord – 69, AA – 29, AAC – 108, ADC – 1,337, ADP – 737, APGA – 268, APM – 46, APP – 91, BP – 46, NNPP – 264, NRM – 141, PRP– 48, YPP – 81 and ZLP – 460.
Lasisi said that the total number of registered voters in the state was 987,646; total number of accredited voters was 315,058, while the total number of valid votes was 308,171.
He said that 6,301 votes were rejected due to over voting and bypass of Bimoda Voter Verification System (BVAS).
He listed the affected areas to include PU 7 Ward 4 at Ado- Ekiti Local Government and PU 6 Ward 7 Ekiti East.
The INEC Chairman after receiving the results adjourned the collation to Monday at 11a.m., when more states would have been ready for collation (NAN)
The Abia Chapter of the INEC Staff Welfare Association (ISWA) has warned its members to uphold the integrity of the commission and guard against the culture of manipulating election results.
The Abia Chairman of the association, Mr Collins Eze, gave the advice at the group’s general meeting and end-of-year party in Umuahia.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen on the sideline of the ceremony, Eze said that the staff members were adequately aware of their enormous responsibility and should ensure free, fair and credible elections.
He said: “We have also told our colleagues that anywhere they find themselves they should make sure that they do the needful by ensuring transparency in the conduct of elections.
“We have always told them not to allow anybody to induce them with money to manipulate election results.
“I’m happy that they have been building the capacity of our colleagues on election processes.
“So, in the coming years, we won’t have any problem in ensuring free, fair and peaceful elections.”
He said that the end-of-year party was special as it afforded them the opportunity “to wine and dine together as well as thank God for sustaining them in 2024”.
Eze said that his leadership had introduced various means of assisting members in dire financial needs by providing platforms to solicit suppory for them.
He expressed gratitude to members for their support and cooperation, describing them as the “secret behind the success of this administration”.
He said that 34 of at least 350 staff members of the commission in the state retired from service in 2024.
According to him, the development has placed a huge financial burden on the association, in terms of their welfare and entitlement as members.
Report says that each member received a carton of tomato paste as Christmas gift from the association. (NAN)
A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu, has told the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to be thankful to God that its 16-year administration was not probed by the successive APC-led governments.Okechukwu stated this on Tuesday in Abuja, while reacting to a statement by PDP congratulating Ghanaians for the conduct of free, fair and transparent general elections.
Report says that PDP had, in a statement, said that the verdict of the people of Ghana in the presidential election was a signal to the APC that its days were numbered. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, had said in the statement that the power of the people in Nigeria, just like in Ghana, would ‘surely prevail and end the APC’s oppressive rule’.This, he said, would “return Nigeria to the path of good governance, security, political stability and economic prosperity on the platform of the PDP in 2027.”However, in his reactions to Ologunagba’s statement, Okechukwu said that the PDP clan should thank God that former President Muhammadu Buhari and President Bola Tinubu, out of sheer statesmanship, had refused to probe ‘the 16 locus years of PDP administrations’.Okechukwu, a former Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), described the 16 years of PDP administrations as ones full of squandering and lack of plan.He said that Nigeria had yet to recover from the humongous culture of impunity and trust deficit planted by PDP on the Nigerian soil.Okechukwu said corruption was among the culture of impunity, saying it governed the privatisation of Nigeria’s electricity value chain, a key element in the country’s industrialisation drive.“Another is the blatant rigging of the 2007 general elections which the foremost beneficiary, President Umaru Yar’Adua, out of good conscience and noble magnanimity, publicly acknowledged the malfeasance which characterised his victory,” he said.Okechukwu also mentioned what he called conscienceless sale of the legislative and ministerial quarters, the annual rentage of which, he said, was bleeding the country’s treasury.“Another one is the neglect of $23 billion Greenfield Refinery, which could have saved over $70 billion expended on importation of refined petroleum products and which simulated the economic hardship of today,” he said.On why, for nine years, the APC administration could not fix those challenges, he recalled the efforts made by the Buhari administration to reopen talks on the Greenfield Refinery which, according to him, the Chinese regrettably rebuffed.The former VON director-general said that Nigerians were not in a hurry to forget the deliberate breach of the rotational convention of president from the north to the south.He said that the country could not also forget the utter disregard for Section 7 of the PDP’s constitution which expressly mandated zoning.Okechukwu advised the PDP not to insult the sensibilities of Nigerians by assuming that citizens would easily forget how they were put in the harms way.He said that PDP should thank God that Buhari and Tinubu did not want to probe them, adding “that’s why Nigerians cannot decipher the difference between the two political parties.” (NAN)
Sen. Ned Nwoko (PDP-Delta) says that Local Government Administration is central to democracy in Nigeria as it ensures grassroots governance and service delivery at the local level.This is contained in a statement signed by Dr Michael Nwoko, the Chief of Staff to the lawmaker in Abuja on Monday.Nwoko said this on the occasion of the presentation of an award “Icon of Hope” to him by the Association of Local Government Vice Chairmen of Nigeria (ALGOVC).
He was represented by his Chief of Staff. He said that the importance of local government administration in the country could not be overemphasised, as it was the bedrock of democracy.According to him, local governments in Nigeria play key roles in the country’s democracy by promoting participatory democracy, providing services, and representing citizens.“Local Governments help determine local needs and how to meet them. They also act as a link between the centre, state, and local people.“They are created to decentralise power and bring the government closer to the people. They perform both mandatory and concurrent functions.“It is in view of this that I took it upon myself to enhance the viability of local governments through the Paris and London club loan refunds,”he said.Dr Folashade Olabanji-Oba, ALGOVC National Chairman, while presenting the award at its 7th Annual National Conference, said the award was in recognition of the lawmaker’s significant contributions to strengthening local government administration.She highlighted Nwoko’s critical role in ensuring the Paris and London Club loan refunds, a financial breakthrough she said enhanced the capacity of local governments nationwide.(NAN)
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