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  Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu is in the lead after Saturday’s general election. As of Monday night, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared collated results in 20 states. Tinubu is ahead with 5,862,453 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has secured 4,288,434 votes so far. Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, is currently in third place with 2,834,932; Rabiu Kwankwaso, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, polled 1,315,549. Interestingly, Tinubu is the only top contender that failed to win home state, losing Lagos to Obi. Atiku won in President Muhammadu Buhari’s state – Katsina. The results from other states, as well as the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, are expected to be presented today from 11am. The International Conference Centre, ICC, in Abuja, venue of the national collation centre, remains under tight security. The opposition on Monday called for the suspension of the annou...

  The Labour Party Presidential Campaign Committee has denounced purported politically motivated attacks on certain Lagos State residents. According to the party, individuals who were attacked were thought to have voted for the LP. The attacks have been directed at both indigenous and non-indigenous people, according to the Obi-Datti PCC. The team condemned the attack, which it termed as "very terrible," in a statement signed on Monday by the council's Deputy Director General, Oseloka Obaze. It is particularly sad that political thugs would target those who used their constitutional rights to vote for the politicians or parties of their choice, said the statement. The Labour Party appreciates its followers and, more broadly, all Nigerians residing in Lagos who have used their basic right to vote in accordance with their consciences in line with its core principle of political decorum. A number of flagrant anomalies in the elections in numerous states are known to the Labo...

  Bode George, a former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has refuted claims that Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, the INEC chairman, met with Bola Tinubu in Lagos. According to rumors in circulation, the electoral head arrived in Lagos aboard a private plane owned by the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, and flew out of Lagos on Sunday morning. Sunday night, George responded to the assertion, saying it "must have sprung from deranged people" and that it was an attempt to confuse the political system. Bode George, a former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has refuted claims that Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, the INEC chairman, met with Bola Tinubu in Lagos. According to rumors in circulation, the electoral head arrived in Lagos aboard a private plane owned by the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, and flew out of Lagos on Sunday morning. Sunday night, George responded to the assertion, saying...

  The Chief Spokesman for Obi-Dati presidential campaign council, Yunusa Tanko, has scolded the ruling All Progressives Congress to stop playing the victim, saying the voting public is aware they are behind the political violence sweeping across the country. Tanko’s scathing remark was a reaction to the accusation by the Chief Spokesman for APC presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo, that the LP Labour Party and its Peoples Democratic Party counterpart are heating up the polity with unflattering comments. Keyamo said that the PCC has observed some subtle threats of violence coming from the camps of the opposition parties as the results of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly poll started trickling in. The accusation and counter-accusation are coming in the wake of reports that the elections were marred by violence in many parts of the country, a situation that also led to the loss of lives and disruption of the voting process. In some areas, the Independent National ...

  The Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission says it will begin publishing presidential and parliamentary election results on Sunday. On Sunday, the electoral commission announced it will open the collation centers, which will aggregate and review results from the country's 36 states and Abuja. "There may not be another opportunity to update Nigerians between now and tomorrow," Mahmood Yakubu, the commission's chairman, said during a press conference in Abuja. "But, if necessary, we will make an announcement before we open the collation center tomorrow."

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Friday said it has deployed two hundred armed operatives to fight vote buying in Kano, Jigawa and Katsina States during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. The Kano Zonal Commander of EFCC, Farouk Dogondaji, made this known during an interview with NAN in Kano. Dogondaji said that the deployment was part of EFCC’s commitment towards ensuring transparent and credible 2023 elections in the zone. He said, “We have deployed fifty personnel to monitor the conduct of the election in Kano State, fifty in Jigawa State and fifty in Katsina State to prevent vote buying throughout the electoral process. “The remaining [fifty] officers were deployed to Malam Aminu Kano International airport in Kano and the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Airport in Katsina.” According to Dogondaji, the commission has enough personnel on standby, adding that they are battle ready for any threat, even during and after the election. The 2023 general elect...

    Nigerians go to the polls today, February 25, to exercise their right to vote. They are voting to pick a new President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as well as senators and members of the House of Representatives to form the 10th National Assembly, which will govern the country for the next four years. The route to the 2023 general elections has been lengthy. There were momentous milestones along the road, including as the Electoral Act 2022, enormous registration for Permanent Voter Cards (PVC), and INEC's seismic shift to technology-driven elections utilizing the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). This year, the stakes are higher than in any other polls in recent history. The record number of registered voters of 93.5 million, the dominant demographics of 48 million youths, the intensity of the electioneering campaign and the political fever that gripped the Nigerian populace are indications that the 2023 general election is of great importance to Nigerians...

  A foremost economist and founder of Anap Foundation,  Atedo Peterside, has endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, in Saturday’s election saying that he (Obi) represents a new path for Nigerians. The founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc made this declaration while speaking on Arise TV’s programme tagged, ‘The 2023 Presidential Election in view.’ Explaining the reasons why he will vote for LP’s Obi, Peterside said, “He (Obi) represents a new path. I like the fact that the new path does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly because it will stop the executives from bringing ‘nonsense on economic fronts’ to the parliament and in advance is rubber-stamped by their whole party while sabotaging Nigerians’ interest. “I prefer an arrangement where nobody controls the parliament. You bring a project for deliberation, it will be approved only if it is based on national interest. So, it’s a new thing,” he stressed. While fielding questions on the...

  U.S. President Joe Biden called on Thursday for Nigeria’s presidential election on Saturday to be peaceful and transparent. The U.S. president also urged candidates and parties to accept the results as announced by the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Nigerians are set on Saturday to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections that are seen as the most wide-open since Africa’s most populous nation switched from military rule to democracy in 1999. Of the 18 candidates vying to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, three stand a chance. Former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu, 70, the ruling party (All Progressives Congress) candidate; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party), 76, the main opposition candidate; Peter Obi (Labour Party), 61, a challenger popular among young voters. More than 93 million people are registered to vote. There will be about 176,600 polling stations across the country, including in camps for people displaced ...

  The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has said the naira redesign and swap policy was targeted at truncating Saturday’s presidential election and national assembly elections. He added that the policy was also targeted at the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to ensure he lost the election. The governor stated this at the state broadcast aired on electronic media outfits in the state on Thursday morning, barely 48 hours to the election. According to him, the cash swap policy of the APC-led government and the alleged artificial scarcity of fuel “are both lethal injections deliberately administered to de-market the APC government, create an uncontrollable crisis in the nation and finally frustrate the 2023 general elections.” He said, “The goal is to truncate the election and deny the country the service of a true patriot, an endowed visionary with a proven record of character, knowledge, leadership and performance. “It is also an attempt to abuse t...

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