The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday morning declared Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, the winner of the Imo West senatorial election.
The Returning officer, Prof Francis Ibeawuchi, who announced the results at the collation center in Orlu Local Government Area, said that Okorocha of the All Progressives Congress polled a total of 97762 votes to defeat his two major contenders.
According to the Returning officer, Jones Onyereri of the People’s Democratic Party scored 63117 votes to come second while senator Osita Izunaso of the All Progressives Grand Alliance garnered 30923 to come a distant third.
The declaration of the result sparked protest and jubilations at the premises of the INEC office.
While the supporters of Okorocha celebrated, the supporters of the PDP candidate rejected the outcome.
Mutiu Okunola, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Ikeja Federal Constituency, has disrupted the proceedings of the result collation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the Ikeja Local Government Area in Lagos.
In a video recorded by SaharaReporters, Okunola accused INEC of changing the figures of the result in favour of Abiodun Faleke, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m09s0zEwW8Y
According to an eyewitness, Okunola jumped the fence to gain access into the centre.
He threw the result sheets to the ground in anger, and was generally unruly. A few policemen present at the centre failed to arrest the situation, and simply looked on while Olunola constituted a nuisance.
He was then accosted by some persons at the venue of the collation, but instead chose to fight them off, and in the fracas, a woman was thrown to the ground.
Attempts by another officer, who eventually came in to try and manage the situation fell on deaf ears, as he kept shouting.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the results of Makarfi/Kudan and Ikara/Kubau Federal Constituencies.
Announcing the result in Makarfi, Prof. Tijjani Abubakar of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria said Mukhtar Sani Shehu Ladan of the APC scored 59,495 votes to defeat Ahmed Hassan Jumare of the PDP who scored 35,126.
Therefore, Ladan had been elected to represent Makarfi/Kudan in the House of Representatives, which is the constituency of the former governor of Kaduna state and ex-interim national chairman of the PDP, Ahmed Muhammed Makarfi.
Similarly, Dr. Salisu Ibrahim of the APC was declared winner for Ikara/Kubau Federal Constituency as he scored 101,364 to defeat his PDP counterpart who scored 35,956.
Nigerians may have to wait much longer to know who will lead them in the next four years.
This is because the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has shifted to Monday for the commencement of the collation of last weekend’s Presidential Election.
Earlier last Sunday, the commission had confirmed receipt of the results from Ekiti state.
Inaugurating the collation center, at the International Conference Center, Abuja, the Chief Returning Officer who is also the Chairman of INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu says results will be collated state by state in a sequence set up by the commission secretariat headed by himself.
According to him, each state result will be collated through the Returning officer assisted by the Residence Electoral Officer before its overall results could be made known to Nigerians.
In attendance at the collation of the final result of the last weekend Presidential election were representatives of all the political parties, INEC commissioners, Civil Society organizations, the media and observers respectively.
A Christian preacher was arrested yesterday afternoon by the police at Southgate station London N14 for preaching about Jesus Christ.
The man who is believed to be a Nigerian – was told by the police that the public had said he was being Islamophobic and that he should stop his preaching.
The man said he can be arrested and no matter what is done to him, he will not stop preaching. He also told the officers to give their lives to Christ as he said he won’t go away because he needs to tell people the truth.
An officer told him he doesn’t want to listen to his preaching. The Nigerian replied by telling him he will listen to the gospel when he’s dead.
That was the moment the officer placed handcuffs on him and arrested him.
Alleged political thugs, Sunday stormed the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Oriade local government area, Osun state, and set all the ballot boxes on fire.
Reports have it that the hoodlums opened fire to scare away officials of the commission and party agents before seizing ballot boxes, thumb-printed ballot papers and setting them on fire.
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The All Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sponsoring thugs to attack Chief Mowan Etete, an APC chieftain in Asarama, Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Etete was a former council chairman. Also killed was his elder brother and another victim said to be his cousin.
This was disclosed in a statement by Senibo Chris Finebone, the Rivers APC Publicity Secretary, who added that “It’s instructive to note that PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, is from Andoni LGA in Rivers State.”
He also noted that Ignatius, an ex-official member of APC Rivers State Executive committee, was also shot to death in Ajakaja in Andoni LGA.
“Shooting by PDP thugs reported in Unit 3, 11, 6 and 7 in Ubima, Ikwerre LGA. Voters have been chased away,” he added.
