GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State was formally declared as the winner of the April 26 governorship election in the state at about 11.23 am by the Returning Officer, Professor Richard Abhulimen Anao, a former vice chancellor of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, with a total of 525, 793 votes. He won in 13 local governement areas.

Accreditation of voters for the reschedule governorship and state houses of assembly elections in Bauchi and Kaduna states started, Thursday, amidst tight security.

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger state has been declared the winner of Tuesday’s gubernatorial poll in the state with 543,205 votes to beat five other contestants.

Re-elected Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has described his victory as recognition of good governance, calling for the immortalisation of the Youth Corps members and other Nigerians, who lost their lives during the election period.

GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye yesterday urged Nigerian politicians, especially those instigating violent protests in the northern parts of country to deceit from wasting innocent human lives.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday that it would challenge the result of the just-concluded state governorship election in court. Also, the National Conscience Party, NCP, governorship candidate, Mr Ayodele Akele, rejected the result.

For the first time in his 47 years of political adventure, the strong man of Kwara politics, Dr. Olusola Saraki, has failed to install the next governor in the state.

The Nigeria Police yesterday announced that the order on restriction of movement of persons during the rescheduled Governorship/State Houses of Assembly elections in Bauchi and Kaduna States will remain in force and commence from 10pm on Wednesday, April 27, 2011.

Sapele Delta State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Gabriel Ada, has expressed shock over the activities of Peoples Democratic Peoples, PDP, thugs, who ravaged Sapele in the early hours of yesterday, following reports of victory of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, gubernatorial candidate, Chief Great Ogboru, over his main oppenent, Governor Emmauel Uduaghan of the PDP.

BEFORE our attainment of political freedom in 1960, women in Nigeria were subjugated and oppressed by the men-folk, and shackled by injurious cultural mores. In the North, the women were disenfranchised based on their sex.

The coalition of organised labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, yesterday, tasked the in-coming Federal and state governments to pay more attention to job creation as a policy in order to alleviate poverty and reduce suffering in the country.