After months of intense politicking in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the keenly contested Saturday 21, 2024 governorship election in the South-South state. Okpebholo, 54, secured 291,667 votes to defeat Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]
Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Edo state governorship election, has won Oredo LGA after polling 30,780 votes. Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, is from Oredo LGA. More to follow…
Following the announcements of results of the 2024 Edo State governorship elections at the collation centre in Benin City, the state capital on Sunday, PUNCH Online has aggregated the results of the top three candidates so far. These results, as approved by the Independent National Electoral Commission, are computed for the candidates of the All […]
Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC) has declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winners of the local government elections held yesterday in the state. Announcing the results at KWSIEC headquarters in Ilorin in the early hours today, the Chairman of the Commission, Baba Okanla said the APC won all sixteen […]
Late arrival of materials and low voter turnout were some of the challenges recorded in the the local government election in Imo State on Saturday. Even though the exercise was relatively peaceful in areas monitored, some civil society groups who monitored the election say the low turnout may be due to low sensitization by the […]
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has been forced out of the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Benin by the DIG Frank Mba. Obaseki was on the premises early on Sunday morning at some minutes past 2am and was there until he was escorted outside by the police. PUNCH Online earlier reported […]
A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (NCSSR), has observed voter inducement at polling units (PUs) in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State. “Situation Room observers reported widespread instances of blatant vote buying and selling across several polling units, despite the huge presence of security personnel,” the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has uploaded 90.33 percent of the results from the Edo governorship election to its Result Viewing Portal. Results from 4,082 out of the 4,519 polling units where elections were held in the state have been successfully transmitted on the portal. Okùnfà Aáwọ̀ Láàrin Àwọn Mùsùlùmí Àti Oníṣẹ̀ṣe Ìlú Ìlọrin | […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and Labour Party (LP) protested the exclusion of result sheets at polling units in Enugu State on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the protest began when Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) officials arrived at polling units at 9:40 a.m. without the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission National Commissioner in charge of Edo, Prof. Rhoda Gumus, has promised not to collect bribes during the ongoing state governorship election. In an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday, Gumus asserted that nobody would dare approach her with a bribe because of her reputation. The INEC Commissioner added […]
