The Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has lost his polling unit to the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).Sanwo-Olu, who is vying for a second term in office, defeated his co-contenders with 29 votes.Rhodes-Vivour received 18 ballots, while Peoples Democratic Party candidate
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THE Independent National ELectoral Commission (INEC) has begun uploading some of the results of the Saturday, March 18 governorship and state assembly elections via the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).INEC had promised to upload the results of the election after reconfiguring the BVAS machines which were used during the Presidential
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has postponed Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in the 10 polling units situated in Victoria Garden City.INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Segun Agbaje, said this while speaking with journalists on Saturday at the Estate.According to Mr Agbaje, corps members deployed as ad
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Gunmen stormed units 11 and 17 in Eresoyen Primary School Uhogua- Iguoshodin community, Ovia South East Local Government Area of Edo State and snatched voting materials.It was learnt that INEC officials arrived at the polling units with election materials at about 7:30am and commenced accreditation at 8:30 am, when gunmen
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The Presidential standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has voted in the governorship, House Assembly elections on Saturday at his Ajiya Ward voting unit in Jimeta, Yola, stressing that he still has no confidence in INEC.He told newsmen that INEC did poorly during the presidential election
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There are cases of massive vote-buying in some local government areas of Kano and Jigawa State on Saturday.The vote buyers took advantage of absence of EFCC operatives in Tarauni, Fagge, Nassarawa, among other places in Kano metropolis to induce voters to vote for their parties.NAN gathered that the vote-buyers entice
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Some Political thugs have destroyed electoral materials including the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine and other sensitive materials in Omege Ward, Ezza North Local Government Area of the state.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Omege ward is the polling unit of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)
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The governorship candidate of the Labour Party for Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has disclosed that an agent of the party in the ongoing governorship poll in the state has been shot dead.The LP candidate, who said the election process is fraught with voters intimidation and suppression, alleged that the Independent
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There was a heated disagreement at the RAC Center in Buguma, Headquarters of Asari-Toru Local Government over the non-presence of INEC EOs and Result Sheets.The Governorship and State House of Assembly elections are not holding in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State following the insistence of voters to sight
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Some suspected thugs have attacked Pangpit polling unit in Mikang Local Government Area of Plateau state destroying the voters register and ballot boxes.A voter at the polling unit, Mr. Joshua Kabiru who spoke to a Newspaper confirmed the development, saying that trouble started when some party agents who observed that
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