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Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared the winner of the presidential election. Mahmood Yakubu, chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announced the results in the wee hours of Wednesday. Yakubu said Tinubu secured a total of 8,794,726 votes. Atiku Abubakar of the […]

The African Action Congress (AAC) has withdrawn its agent from the national collation centre in Abuja over alleged non-transparency by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The development comes amid the calls by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the cancellation of the general […]

The West African Elders Forum (WAEF) election mission to Nigeria has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate concerns raised by political parties regarding the general election. On Saturday, Nigerians voted in the presidential and national assembly elections. The three leading opposition parties — Labour Party (LP), New Nigeria Peoples […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, have filed a suit to restrain the Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from stopping the collation of the presidential election results. The suit marked FHC/KN/CS/43/2023 was filed before the federal high court in Kano. At a media […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the senatorial seats in Kaduna state. There are three senatorial seats in the state — Kaduna north, Kaduna central, and Kaduna south. In Kaduna central senatorial district, Lawal Usman of the PDP polled 225,066 votes to defeat Abdullahi Sani (Dattijo) of the APC who […]

The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) has advised against heating up the polity amid the ongoing collation of results for the presidential election. The presidential election results are currently being collated in the federal capital territory (FCT). The results of some states have already been announced. However, the Peoples […]

Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) has won the presidential election conducted in Ebonyi and Cross River states. In the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for Ebonyi, Obi polled 259,738 to defeat Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party […]

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has called for the immediate cancellation of the general election. Rufa’i Alkali, the national chairperson of the NNPP, is currently addressing a press conference in Abuja. He said the elections were characterised by voter suppression, intimidation, and vote buying. Alkali also asked the Independent National […]

Adewole Adebayo, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), says Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should concede to Bola Tinubu. His statement comes amid calls by the LP and PDP for Mahmood Yakubu, the chairperson of the Independent National Electoral […]