Tension as Nigerians Await Presidential Election Results *INEC: IRev challenges not due to sabotage, intrusion *Declares Tinubu winner of Ekiti poll*Holds remaining election in Bayelsa, others *Atiku wins
*Declares Tinubu winner of Ekiti poll*Holds remaining election in Bayelsa, others*NLC warns INEC, security agencies of dangers of subverting people’s willAdedayo Akinwale, Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Udora Orizu in Abuja, Olusegun Samuel in Yenagoa, Gbenga Sodeinde in Ado Ekiti, Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo, Laleye Dipo in Minna, Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt, Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano and Gideon Arinze in...
However, Atiku Abubakar returned that favour by defeating Tinubu in Katsina State, the President’s home state, though by a small margin. The former vice president polled 489,045 votes while Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress , scored 482,283 votes. Yakubu, who allayed fears of manipulation, said during one of his briefings yesterday, that everything concerning the collation of the results and announcement would be done that in the open at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
“Consequently, the Commission wishes to assure Nigerians that the challenges are not due to any intrusion or sabotage of our systems, and that the IReV remains well-secured,” he said. The commission said while it fully appreciated the concerns of the public on this situation and welcomed various suggestions that it had received from concerned Nigerians, it was important to avoid statements and actions that could heat up the polity at this time or promote disaffection towards the Commission.
This is as the Independent National Electoral Commission has said the collation of results would continue at 11am today because most of the states were expected to have completed the collation of results last night. At the time of filing this report, collation of results were still on-going at INEC office, Kano, while the state remained calm and peaceful.Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, lost his local government area to Kwankwaso.From the results announced by the returning officer, Adamu Jibril, APC scored 16,773 votes while NNPP scored 25,072 votes. PDP scored 2,477 votes and Labour got 202 votes.
At Nkanu East, the LP candidate polled a total of 11,746 votes while the PDP scored 1430. The APC got 96 votes. In a statement by the NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, the labour movement asked INEC to reject election results from Lagos State following reluctance by the Resident Electoral Officer in charge to transmit the BVAS reports for the presidential election to the official INEC Servers.
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