2023 Elections

NaijaDecides2023: Atiku Defeats Tinubu, Others In Sokoto

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4 weeks ago

February 28, 2023

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Saturday’s presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has defeated his opponents to win the Sokoto State elections with a total of 288,679 votes.

Fidel Info reports that the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, scored a total number of 285,444 votes, while candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and New Nigerian Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came third and fourth with a total of 6,568 and 1,300 votes respectively.

The results were announced at exactly 2:38 am on Tuesday by the returning officer for the Presidential election in the state, Prof. Kabiru Bala, the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Responding, the Director General of the PDP campaign committee, Yusuf Suleiman, called on INEC to look into the issue of more than 400 polling units cancelled in the state.

He said about 300,000 voters in the state have been disenfranchised and that their votes could be for any of the political parties.

Meanwhile, the returning officer disclosed that a total number of 133 registration areas were affected with 471 polling units in the cancellation.

He further explained that the affected areas also include 301,499 registered voters with 254,902 Permanent Voter Cards collected.

2023 Elections

Here’s Why INEC Declared Adamawa Elections Inconclusive

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4 days ago

March 21, 2023

H B. Ray

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Adamawa State governorship election as inconclusive.

Fidel Info reports that INEC state collation officer, Prof Muhammadu Mele of the University of Maiduguri, said he made the decision due to the margin of votes.

“Elections were not held in 47 wards, affecting 69 polling units. So, this gives us a margin of 31,249 [between the leading candidates]. The total number of PVCs collected in places where elections were not held amounted to 37,016,” he said.

Mele said “based on these findings and analysis as stated in the electoral laws” where the margin between two candidates is lesser than the total number of collected PVCs in areas where elections were not held, the election is declared inconclusive.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whose candidates are the major contenders in the election, have been trading blames.

Fintiri of PDP scored a total of 421,522 votes, while Binani of APC scored 390,275 votes from the 21 local governments.

2023 Elections

KadunaDecides: Uba Sani Becomes Gov-Elect

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4 days ago

March 21, 2023

H B. Ray

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Uba Sani, the winner of the 2023 governorship election in Kaduna State.

Fidel Info reports that The Returning Officer for the election and Vice Chancellor of the Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, Professor Lawal Suleiman Bilbis, made the declaration on Monday night.

Sani polled a total of 730,002 votes to defeat his closest rival, Isa Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 719,196 votes.

The Labour Party (LP) candidate, Jonathan Asake came a distant third after polling 58,283 votes while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate, Suleiman Hunkuyi scored 21,405 votes.

Sani is a sitting Senator and an ally of the incumbent Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

2023 Elections

ZamfaraDecides: PDP’s Dauda Lawal Becomes Gov-Elect In A Shocking Upset

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4 days ago

March 21, 2023

H B. Ray

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Lawal the governor-elect with a total of 377,726 votes after he defeated Matawalle of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 311,976.

Fidel Info reports that This announcement took place on Tuesday morning in Gusau, the capital city of the state.

This came after some speculations and confusion over the presentation of the results for Maradun Local Government Area (LGA), where allegations surfaced that the Collation Officer, Dr. Ahmed Kainuwa, had been abducted.