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Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Labour Party candidate for Ohaozara, Onicha and Ivo federal constituency, Ebonyi State, Chief Nkemkanma Kama, yesterday said the naira redesign policy of the Federal Government has curtailed vote buying in the general election. Kama stated this in his Ishiagu country home, Ivo Local Government Area of the state after casting his votes. He commented President Muhammadu Buhari for the measures he took for a transplant election including the new naira notes policy he said has helped to curtail vote buying. “We need a lot of voter education; we should find a way to boycott a lot of…
By Our Reporter, Abuja with Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The National Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Sunday declared open in Abuja, the National Collation Centre for the Presidential election, which took place nationwide on Saturday. The INEC chairman in declaring the Centre open reeled out all the procedures of collation which will ultimately lead to his declaration of the winner of the election as President Elect, being the national returning officer for the election. He promised that everything will be done transparently in the full glare of the nation and promised to make certain announcements or…
Our Reporter, Abuja National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has raised alarm over the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to upload results collated in various polling units in Lagos and Delta states to its central server. The LP chairman said in a statement on Saturday that INEC officials in connivance with the security agencies are claiming that the BVAS has suddenly developed fault and therefore cannot function. He said that information from the party’s agents has it that in places like Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, and Ibeju Lekki, amongst others where results show that Labour Party won convincingly, the INEC officials claim…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, on Saturday said his party will win the Presidential election with a wide margin. Anyanwu made this known to newsmen shortly after voting at his polling unit at booth 012, Central School, Amaimo, Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State. According to him, the achievements of the PDP, in the country would guarantee victory for the party. He added that the PDP was coming to redeem the battered image of the country. He said: “2023 election remains a rare opportunity for the country to redeem its…
Nonsochukwu Uwa, Owerri The House of Representatives candidate for Ohaji-Egbema, Oguta, and Oru West Federal Constituency in Imo state, Uju Kingsley Chima, has been under attack with unknown gunmen surrounding his house as well as an armored personnel carriers positioned in front of his gate, in his hometown Umuorji in Egbema. The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through the state Publicity Secretary, Collins Opurozor, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, on Saturday. According to him: “At about 10 pm last night, the country home of our candidate at Umuorji in Egbema was invaded by truckloads of…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The Abia central senatorial candidate of the Young Peoples Party, YPP, Chief Chuku Wachuku, has raised the alarm over missing result sheets in the voting materials brought to his Mbawsi Isiala Ngwa North Ward. The former Director General, National Directorate of Employment, NDE, who spoke with our Correspondent alleged that when officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, came to the polling unit, there were no result sheets among the materials they brought. He said that upon inquiry, the INEC officials said result sheets were not among the items given to them but added that it…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, came second in the polling unit of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu won the Ward 3, Alausa, Ikeja, polling unit with 33 out of the 43 total number of accredited voters. Obi came a distant second with eight votes while Atiku only escaped with one vote. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, also won his polling unit (Unit 006, Ward E3, Lagos Island) for Tinubu. In the governor’s unit, Tinubu got 86 votes, while Obi scored five, and Atiku got three. TINUBU’S UNIT (PRESIDENTIAL) APC: 33 LP:…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has commended voters in the South-East for their massive participation in Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections. The coalition expressed joy that voters despite many odds trooped out en masse to exercise their franchise. President General of COSEYL, Comrade Goodluck Ibem, in a statement expressed satisfaction over the massive turn out of voters in polling units across South-East. “The turnout was very impressive and we urge that it continues in the governorship and state House of Assembly elections coming up on the 11 day of March, 2023. “It is really a show…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia Results trickling in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections so far in Abia State, indicate that the Labour Party of Mr Peter Obi is in the lead. Obi swept St. Stephen’s Primary School polling units 022; and 024 respectively with a wide margin. The former Anambra State Governor polled 182 out of the total 183 accredited votes in Polling Unit 024. Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC; and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, got zero vote each. The African Democratic Congress, ADC, got only one vote. Meanwhile, Darlington Nwokocha of the Labour Party…
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ahmed Tinubu, lost one of the polling units close to his voting point at Alausa, Ikeja, to his Labour Party counterpart, Mr Peter Obi. Obi won Tinubu at the polling unit with a narrow margin as he polled nine out of the 19 total vote cast in the unit 052, Ward 3. Tinubu got eight votes while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) received only two votes.