VIOLENCE, voters’ apathy, vote-buying, and allegations of manipulation, yesterday, marred the supplementary governorship and state assembly elections in some states of the country.

IT was wild jubilation yesterday in Osogbo, Osun State capital and Ede, the country home of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleke as the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, yesterday nullified the election of All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola and declared Adeleke as the valid winner of the September 2018 governorship election in the state.

Against the background of judicial intrigues by political interest groups, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday opened up on its plans to hold supplementary governorship and legislative elections in 18 states tomorrow where the polls had been declared inconclusive.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, launched a blistering attack on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its  presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, describing their claim of having won last month’s presidential poll as the hallucinatory outcome of a post-election depression.

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had at various stages of the February 23 presidential election, unlawfully allocated votes to President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a rush to beat the 21 days deadline provided by the Electoral Act, lawyers to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday evening, stormed the tribunal to lodge a petition against President Muhammadu Buhari.

THE ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were at the jugular of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, weekend, accusing the electoral umpire of bias and favouritism in recent elections and planned supplementary polls.

Fears are being expressed by the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, regarding the possible role security agencies may play in the forth-coming re-run governorship elections slated for Saturday.

Around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Adedayo Adedoyin waved her 6-year-old twin son and daughter off as they took the short walk to their school, a few meters away from their home in Lagos Island.

UNKNOWN  to most Nigerians,what they read in the newspapers, watched on screen concerning the violence that trailed last Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the South-South was a child’s play compared to what really transpired on ground.

THE alleged militarization and massive rigging of the February 23 Presidential, National Assembly and March 9  Governorship, State Houses of Assembly and Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Area Council elections, yesterday, threw the Senate into a rowdy session.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said it would conduct supplementary elections on March 23 in states where the exercise was put on hold due to violence or other reasons.

THE two leading political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were at each other’s jugular, yesterday, over the results of the governorship election in Sokoto, Adamawa, Plateau, Sokoto and the South-South states.

Following reports of widespread violence and disruption of elections in Rivers State, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday suspended all electoral processes in the state indefinitely.

The governorship and House of Assembly elections held across the country, yesterday, were characterised by poor voter turn out.