LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has been re-elected as the governor of the state. Governor Bello was returned elected on Monday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), having scored the highest number of votes in the keenly contested poll. The Returning Officer for…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Kogi West senatorial rerun election inconclusive. According to the returning officer, Professor Olayinde Lawal, the margin between the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Smart Adeyemi and that of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Dino Melaye is 20,570. He announced that Mr…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC), governorship candidate, Mr David Lyon, as the winner of Bayelsa State governorship election held on November 16. Mr Lyon won six out of the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State where the governorship election took place, polling a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The electoral commission, INEC, has declared 30 of its staff missing. The ad-hoc staff took part in Saturday’s Kogi State governorship election. They were posted to Olamaboro Local Government Area (LGA) by the commission. They were declared missing around 1 a.m. on Sunday during the final collation of results in the local…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson who voted at Owewari, Polling Unit 005, Toru Orua in Sagbama local government area, called on the Indepedent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the election in some parts of the state, where the exercise was characterized by alleged brigandage, hijacking of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that only a revolution will save Nigeria and launch her into the league of countries towing the paths of development. Obi made the submission while speaking at Baze University, Abuja, on Wednesday. The former…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, on Thursday nullified the governorship primaries that produced Chief David Lyon as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for the Nov. 16 poll in the state. Delivering judgment, Justice Jane Inyang, held that the primaries were conducted arbitrarily outside the rules of the…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained that there was no way Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election, could have won. INEC said Atiku was not declared winner of the exercise because it was satisfied that the PDP candidate did not secure majority…