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Nigeria's electoral commission has started announcing state-by-state results from Saturday's presidential election.
According to Inec, na di State Coalition Officer for di Presidential Election (SCOPE) go first present di result before Oga Yakubu go ratify and announce ...
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Tinubu appears on course for victory despite Labour candidate Peter Obi taking Lagos in surprise result.
In recent weeks, an effort to replace almost all Nigeria’s banknotes – in part to reduce the widespread practice of vote-buying – has caused massive economic disruption and much popular anger. However, analysts point out this is the seventh poll held since the end of military rule in 1999 and that some Nigerian democratic institutions are growing stronger. Many believe a credible poll and progress in tackling the country’s multiple problems are key to stability across a swath of [Africa](https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa). There is no pathway to Aso Rock Villa [the official residence and office of the Nigerian president] for Obi at the moment,” one senior ministerial aide told the Guardian. However, in Lagos only a relatively small proportion of eligible voters cast their ballots. The PDP is expected to hold on to most of its bastions, early reports suggested. Officials from the APC said on Sunday night that their own information showed that “Obi-dients”, as supporters of Obi called themselves, were likely to be disappointed. We must allow the process to continue unhindered across the country while we maintain peace and decorum,” he said. “As a democrat, you win some, you lose some. has shown his message of change resonates with Nigerians.” “It’s a sign of the fatigue Lagosians have with Tinubu, who has held the state for the last 20 years. “What Obi has done is pretty mind-boggling.
Provisional results from Nigeria's disputed presidential election over the weekend showed Bola Tinubu from the ruling party in the lead, a Reuters tally of ...
The ruling party's candidate has 44% of tallied votes, but the opposition says counting is flawed.
The PDP representative at the election centre in the capital, Abuja, described the process as fraudulent, and accused the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) of colluding with Inec. [Nigeria Elections 2023](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cqymyxky0xjt) [The man who wants Nigerians to look back to go forward](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47046599) From the results announced so far Mr Tinubu has won the most votes in six states, Mr Abubakar five and Mr Obi three. The Labour Party asked for the announcements to be suspended, or for the election to be cancelled and rerun. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party have claimed there is a lack of transparency with the new electronic voter system.
Leading candidates in Nigeria's 2023 presidential election (from left) Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC, Atiku Abubakar of PDP and Peter Obi of Labour Party.
He also noted the system of uploading results needed to be reviewed in real time and communication on the voting and collation process should be enhanced. Meanwhile, also irked by the outcome of the results from its stronghold, APC has called on its restless supporters to be calm and promised to uphold the outcome of the results. “Having observed that INEC chairman is determined to rig the elections by making sure that results are not uploaded, we are not here to rubber stamp the electoral fraud that has been prepared by INEC and the APC,” he said. He added that according to Section 60 of the Nigerian Electoral Act 2022, an election presiding officer is mandated to announce the results at the polling unit in the presence of party agents. According to Onifade, the Amended Electoral Act of Nigeria says that election results were to be uploaded to the central server from the polling units and that the manual collation made no sense. He said that Nigerians swamped the party with calls and protests over INEC’s non-compliance with provisions of the electoral guidelines and the "obvious manipulations of the election results".
INEC has failed Nigerians, if we follow the letters of the electoral act which offered the option to send results electronically. How do you explain that after ...
Of course, when he ran for president in 2019, he lost his home state (and the whole of Southwest), and when he endorsed Atiku in 2019, the former Vice President lost the state to APC. The race seems now between Atiku and Tinubu but is just too early. Ikeja is the capital of Lagos State and the local government area where Tinubu voted. Ogun State, the home state of Nigeria’s former president, Obasanjo, never shows love to the ex-general. “The Commission regrets this setback, especially because of the importance of IReV in our results management process. I am looking at the data coming from INEC; most things do not make sense. But move a border to Ikeja, the numbers move at multiples. Nigerians need to ask INEC to release all the results at ONCE! By winning Katsina, the PDP path widens, using the flawed results INEC is sharing. INEC has failed Nigerians, if we follow the letters of the electoral act which offered the option to send results electronically. “Apart from this surplus, we have not even calculated the votes of other political parties. And now, it was also recorded that Labour had 11, 397 when the total number left is 10, 510, leaving an over figure of 887.
So far, presidential election results from 17 states have been collated. From the available statistic, the ruling party candidate takes an early lead in ...
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Early results have put Bola Tinubu from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) well ahead of the main opposition Peoples Democratic party (PDP) candidate, ...
In recent weeks, an effort to replace almost all Nigeria’s banknotes – in part to reduce the widespread practice of vote-buying – has caused massive economic disruption and much popular anger. “Contrary to the insinuation by both parties, results emanating from the states point to a free, fair and credible process,” Inec said in response. This is what the delay is about. It’s not about serving the people, it is about serving the self. If provisional votes yet to be officially declared by Inec were included, Obi would be in second place six points behind the leader. “The election is irretrievably compromised and we have totally lost faith in the entire process,” the Labour party chairman Julius Abure told reporters at a press conference alongside PDP representatives.
Results have begun trickling in from Nigeria's presidential election, two days after voters in Africa's biggest democracy went to the polls.
*INEC: IRev challenges not due to sabotage, intrusion. *Declares Tinubu winner of Ekiti poll*Holds remaining election in Bayelsa, others*Atiku wins Buhari's ...
“INEC must understand that not uploading the results to its Server expeditiously as expected creates avoidable crisis of confidence and imperils the entire process. “This is avoidable and it is only by allowing the sovereign will prevail that we can guarantee national peace. We warn INEC and others not to allow this election to degenerate into a national security crisis. Akeem Lasisi, said APC scored a total of 201,494 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 89,554 votes. The Labour Party’s candidate, Peter Obi, on the other hand, garnered 11,397 votes and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) polled 264 votes. The former vice president polled 489,045 votes while Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 482,283 votes. There were a total of 79,917 registered voters. Out of a total of 178,654 registered voters, only 40, 347 voters were accredited. The APC got 96 votes. PDP scored 2,477 votes and Labour got 202 votes. It is indeed not unusual for glitches to occur and be corrected in such situations. There are five more local governments to go.
Counting has been under way since polls closed on Sunday, with the final tally expected within five days.
He has selected Ifeanyi Okowa, the outgoing governor of Delta State in the south and Christian, as his running mate. One big achievement was a significant scholarship scheme that benefitted thousands of students from low-income households in Kano, previously known for its high numbers of the almajirai, out-of-school child beggars. Seen as a wildcard in the race, New Nigerian People’s Party’s (NNPP) Kwankwaso comes with enough experience to match the other frontrunners. He was on the PDP ticket alongside Abubakar in 2019. The outgoing Buhari is a northern Muslim. If no candidate meets these criteria, a run-off will be held within 21 days, with only the top two candidates allowed to participate.
All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu (C-L) and his wife Oluremi Tinubu (C-R) arrive to vote at a polling station in Lagos on ...
APC blasted Obasanjo’s statement as tantamount to “subtly calling” for “a coup against democracy and the constitution.” But the government warned him not to truncate the elections with “his inciting, self-serving and provocative letter on the elections,” in a “The election fell well short of Nigerian citizens’ reasonable expectations,” said a joint observer mission of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI). The election process has been dogged with controversy, and the announcement at the national collation center in Abuja has seen some tense moments, with opposition party members walking out of the collation center as the results were being announced Monday. “We call on the international community to note that the results being declared at the National Collation centre have been heavily doctored and manipulated and do not reflect the wishes of Nigerians expressed at the polls on February 25, 2023,” they said. They said their parties would no longer be part of the ongoing collation process in the capital Abuja and added they had lost confidence in the electoral body Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, said a joint statement from the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, and African Democratic Congress in Abuja on Tuesday.
Opposition parties in Nigeria have called for the presidential election to be scrapped, describing it as a sham. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ...
they are cooking up results," one man told the BBC. Mr Obi is third, with 18%. A candidate needs to have the most votes nationwide and at least a quarter of ballots cast in 25 of the 36 states plus Abuja to be declared the winner. A group of angry protesters denounced the electoral commission outside the national collation centre in the capital, Abuja. The opposition parties were critical of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) and its handling of the electronic voting system. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party said results had been manipulated, and they wanted a new election to be organised.