LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has put a lie to the rumour going round that he is at present in Kano and meddling in the Kano elections. “Asiwaju is not in Kano and has not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of these elections. The picture…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two election observer groups have called on the Federal Government to fully implement the recommendations of the Mohammed Uwais and Ken Nnamani led political reform committees to check electoral fraud. The International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) made the call on Monday in Abuja in their preliminary report…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released a comprehensive list of Senators-elect, following the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. In a statement from the electoral body on Monday, INEC announced that it would present certificates of return to those whose names are on the list on Thursday, March 14….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Returning Officer for the Imo West senatorial election on Saturday, Prof Innocent Ibeawuchi, has alleged that he was forced to declare Governor Rochas Okorocha the winner of the poll by the supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate. According to the result, Okorocha polled 97,762 votes to win the election…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has said that there was no basis for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to reject the results of last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections across the country. The collated results are being formally submitted at the National collation centre located at the International Conference Centre…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ijaw Rebirth National Congress IRNC, has alleged plot to manipulate the National Assembly results for Delta South Senatorial District purportedly to have been won by incumbent Senator James Manager. Comrade Luke Owei, facilitator of Ijaw Rebirth National Congress IRNC, on Monday said results already collated across the Delta South Senatorial District…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGRS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has won Ekiti state, the first officially declared presidential election result by Independent National Electoral Commission. In the result announced by the returning officer, Professor Idowu Olayinka, vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Buhari of the All Progressives Congress polled 219,231 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The vice-presidential candidate of the PDP, Mr Peter Obi, has described INEC’s processes for the presidential and national assembly elections as clumsy. Obi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday at his Amatutu Ward 2 voting centre at Agulu in the Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra that it took…