The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Ebonyi State Collation Officer, Prof. Chukwuemeka Eze, on Tuesday in Abuja said that 54,668 votes were cancelled in the state due to card readers related issues.

Nigeria’s main opposition on Monday accused the ruling party of trying to rig presidential elections as the incumbent cemented a lead, but monitors voiced concern about polling day problems and violence that caused dozens of deaths.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Ebonyi State Collation Officer, Prof. Chukwuemeka Eze, on Tuesday in Abuja said that  54,668 votes were cancelled in the state due to card readers related issues. 

KEY actors of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta Central Senatorial District, Olorogun O’Tega Emerhor, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Engr Sam Adjogbe and Chief Great Ogboru, have delivered two local government areas to President Mohammadu Buhari in the last Saturday presidential election.

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated that in spite of the reported inadequacies that attended last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Kwara State, he is wishing the candidates who emerged from the election the best of luck.

Out of the 75 parties compiled during the collation exercise of the Presidential elections from the 44 Local Government Areas of Kano, President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC has defeated his opponents with 1,464,768 votes.

SENATOR James Manager of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been re-elected Senator Delta south senatorial district scoring 258,812 to beat former governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of the All Progressives Congress, APC who polled 125,776.

The Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum and Coodinator, North West, Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Wamakko Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, says his victory at Saturday’s National Assembly elections was divined by Almighty Allah.

It was a mixed fortune for outgoing governors bidding for the Senate in last weekend’s National Assembly election as two of the nine outgoing governors lost their bid and three outrightly being declared victors. The fate of two of the other outgoing governors was still unclear yesterday.

With the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio fighting for his political life, the state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday demanded  adequate security for Independent National Electoral Commission offices across the state.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday garnered the highest total votes cast for the Bauchi South Senatorial District but the Returning Officer, Prof. Ahmed Sarkin-Fagam, could not declare a winner for the election.

ASABA – ALL Progressives Congress, APC, Delta South Senatorial candidate and former Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has called for the cancellation of the district’s senatorial polls held last Saturday, saying it was massively rigged.

Former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Modu Ali Sheriff yesterday took pride of his role in the trouncing of his former party by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in the presidential and National Assembly elections.

YENAGOA- THE All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate Mr Isreal Sunny-Goli has been declared winner of the Brass-Nembe Federal House of Representatives seat in Bayelsa State.