LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-There was disquiet in Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory after the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Wednesday….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the voiding of election results where the BVAS and Servers were manipulated or rendered inactive. In a statement Monday evening, Obasanjo said results that were brought outside BVAS and Server were not true reflection of the will of Nigerians who had made their individual choice….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the collation of the presidential election continues, some youths have protested against the results being reeled out. The protesters, who are mostly youths, stormed the national collation centre, the International Conference Centre, ICC, in Abuja, to express their displeasure over the election results. The youths, led by activist, Moses Ogidi-Paul, described…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) on Sunday asked the United States of America (USA), European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to keep to his promise to ensure free and fair 2023 elections and to hand over to the duly elected President on May 29,2023….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has chided the hierarchy of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for spending the entire four years since the last 2019 general elections preparing for the presidential and legislative elections only to churn out a ‘shambolic, criminally manipulated and anything but…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission published results from just 17% of polling stations, prompting observers to censure the agency for the slow progress. The INEC’s website showed results from only 30,422 of the 176,846 polling stations, which were supposed transmit the count as soon as they were tallied, as of 10:51 a.m….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has raised alarm over what it described as obvious and deliberate moves to compromise the on-going Presidential and National elections. It charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies to intervene immediately so as to prevent crisis. POSN in a statement issued on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State on Thursday condemned INEC for omitting party’s logo in the Senatorial and House of Representatives’ ballot papers ahead of the Saturday’s General Elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INEC on Wednesday took delivery of sensitive materials for the Presidential and National…