By Abimbola Ogunnaike Out of the 10 state governors that jostled for senatorial positions Saturday, 25 February, 2023, senatorial election, seven have lost out. The Governors who have lost so far are: Ben Ayade, Cross River; Samuel Ortom, Benue state; Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu; Darius Ishaku, Taraba; Simon Lalong, Plateau; Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia; and Atiku Bagudu, Kebbi. Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state Niger State and Governor Abubakar Bello, have both secured their seats in the Senate. Umahi, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the senator-elect for Ebonyi South Senatorial District, after scoring a total of 28,378 votes…
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By Abimbola Ogunnaike Messi beat his Paris Saint-Germain teammate, and World Cup final rival, Kylian Mbappe to the men’s gong with Ballon d’Or winner, Karim Benzema the other contender to claim the prize. It is the second time that Messi has won the honour inaugurated by FIFA in 2016 after football’s world governing body split from Ballon d’Or organisers France Football. The award, which is voted for by national team coaches and captains, journalists and also fans, recognises a year in which the former Barcelona star crowned his glorious career by leading Argentina to victory at the World Cup. Messi…
By Abimbola Ogunnaike The Heads of International Observers Election Groups have applauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the Presidential/National Assembly polls on Saturday, 25 February, 2023. More than 80 million citizens voted in what is arguably one of Nigeria’s most anticipated general elections. International Observers Election Groups include the African Union led by former president Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and the commonwealth team led by former president Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. Two days after the elections were held, the observers submitted their preliminary report to the electoral umpire. Despite the commendation, they decried a…
By Kazeem Akintunde Nigerians on Saturday went to the poll to elect a brand new president for the country. Eighteen of their compatriots are on the ballot, vying for President. Already, results have started trickling in and sooner than later, the winner will be announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. However, let us take a look at the cost implications of the election, in terms of the naira and kobo, and the human lives lost even before the first vote was cast. Aside from that, what is the cost implication of shutting down the Nation for almost 24…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate for Lagos Central Senatorial District, Rt Hon Wasiu Sanni- Eshinlokun has been declared winner of the Lagos Central Senatorial District. The Returning Officer for the election, Prof Owolabi Lateef Kuye announced at the collation centre at INEC Office, Sura, Lagos Island that Eshinlokun was returned elected with 131, 828 votes. According to him, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Gomez Adewale Francis came a distant second with 69,320 votes while OIadeji Blessing Tunde of the Young Progressives Party scored 14, 941 votes in third position. Prof Kuye noted that the election was relatively peaceful…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the Lagos East Senatorial Election held on Saturday, 25 February, 2023. The results declared by the INEC Returning Officer for the Lagos East Senatorial election, Prof. Simeon Adebayo Oladipo, showed that Senator Abiru polled 178,646 votes to defeat his closest rival of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who garnered 80,249 votes. Senator Abiru’s votes represent 61.4% of total valid votes cast. Having satisfied the requirements of the law by winning majority of votes cast across the Senatorial district,…
The agent of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the ongoing collation of results for the Presidential election, Senator Dino Melaye has walked out of the collation centre, reports thegazellenews. The agent of the Labour Party also walked out of the centre. They were protesting against the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to display the results of the election electronically.
A step son of popular juju musician, Sunday Adegeye aka Sunny Ade has won a House of Representatives seat in Lagos reports thegazellenews.com Lanwa George is the son of former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mrs Risikat Adegeye, deceased wife of Sunny Ade. Lanwa was declared winner of the House of Representatives seat for Amuwo-Odofin Federal Constituency by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the platform of Labour Party.
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan said on Monday, 27 February, 2023, that his re-election to the Senate for the fifth term is victory for the people of Yobe North Senatorial District in Yobe State. Lawan won the Saturday Senatorial election by a landslide victory having polled 91,318 votes, representing 74.7 percent of the total valid votes(122,193), to defeat his closest rival, Bello Ilu of PDP who polled 22,849 votes The Senate President had a comfortable win in each of the six Local Government Areas that make up the Yobe North Senatorial District namely Machina, Nguru, Yusufari, Bade, Jakusko…
All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has appealed to the people of Lagos State to be calm and eschew any act that can lead to breakdown of law and order. Tinubu said the outcome of the election in Lagos where Labour Party won the presidential election should not be a source of provocation saying that the beauty of democracy is that people have a right to vote for the candidate of their choice. The APC candidate further said that as a democrat he is bound to accept the outcome of any election whether favourable or not. In…