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BREAKING: INEC declares Tinubu winner of presidential election

  The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect. Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was declared the president-elect after the 70-year-old polled 8,794,726 votes to win the 2023 presidential election. The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner at the International […]

THE LATEST: Tinubu Leads Obi With Over 2 Million Votes After 12 States

  Results have been trickling in since Mahmood Yakubu, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, declared the national collation of the presidential election results open on Sunday. INEC has since announced the results from over 10 states, and they show that the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Bola Tinubu, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar […]

2023: Vote-Buying— Hunger, Naira Scarcity, Other Factors

  The 2022 primary and gubernatorial elections in Nigeria brought to the fore the reality of vote buying. According to news reports, delegates to the primary elections of the two major parties were paid thousands of dollars to induce them to vote for certain candidates. Vote buying and selling had been an important determinant of […]

INSECURITY: Going to 2023 polls in fears

  Five days to Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, fears of insecurity in some parts of the country and the credibility of the electoral process may affect the turnout of voters, Daily Trust reports. Despite a steady rise in the number of registered voters in Nigeria’s seven election cycles, since 1999, the country has […]