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helinues:
Divided opposition how? Has Ajaka ever being in Pdp?

It would have been a easy ride for Him had they combine force against Adodo, not this current struggling

2. NJABA


Accredited Voters:

A
AA
AAC
ADC 40
ADP 22
APC 8110 Winner
APGA 51
APM 08
APP 02
BP 03
LP 995
NNPP 11
NRM 05
PDP 2404
PRP 01
SDP 01
YPP 05
ZLP 27

Total VALID VOTE: 11736
Rejected Vote: 294
Total Vote Cast: 12030
No Cancellation: 3 PU

helinues:
That will be resolved as any disagreement can be resolved at court.

Dino seems not to be in the Kogi Guber race

Divided opposition stand no chance in winning incumbent in Kogi, that is the reality

helinues:
Dino did the same in the last presidential election announcement but he was irrelevant. Same case with LP agents.

Na results we dey wait for

It's still part of the process now, ...

Pro. Abayomi Fasina standing his ground to continue the Announcement

helinues:
Post the results now

Read now,


Argument ongoing leading to disruption of the announcement.

Everything still at stand-still

Labour Party Agent continue His argument of submitting his petition before collation can go on

Argument Continues


But the Result Announcement to go ahead

1. Oru-West


Accredited Voters: 42965

A 8
AA 31
AAC 48
ADC 110
ADP 70
APC 38026 Winner
APGA 275
APM 41
APP 26
BP 95
LP 1867
NNPP 21
NRM 70
PDP 987
PRP 21
SDP 5
YPP 12
ZLP 24

Total VALID VOTE: 41373
Rejected Vote: 581
Total Vote Cast: 42318
No Cancellation

Arguments on Petition before Collation

Returning Officer standing His ground not to entertain any petition Saying that is not his jurisdiction

APGA Result

LP Results

PDP Results

APC Result

LGA Announced with Winners

1. Oru West: APC 38026 Winner
2. NJABA APC 8110 Winner

Imo 2023: Inec Official Result Declaration

The IMO Returning Officer is About Now Announcing the Election Result for Imo Governorship Election


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHYOYm-kUE

fergie001:
@yiagaafrica

What kind of backwardness is this.

I'm speechless

This charades is very shameful

Ajaka Cast His votes

ADC: LEKE ABEJIDE

Abejide is a serving House of Representatives member elected on the platform of the (ADC). He represents the Yagba Federal Constituency.

He was reelected on February 25, 2023, for a second term.

Abejide is running for the Kogi governorship seat on the ADC platform.

He is one of the three candidates from the Kogi West Senatorial District.

Like others, the Kogi election promises to be interesting, given the heavyweights vying for the exalted seat.

LP Candidate: ATHAN ACHONU

Mr Achonu is a successful businessman, but his participation in politics has been limited. The 64-year-old came to the limelight in 2015 when he was elected into the Nigerian Senate under the PDP platform to represent Imo North District.

But his election was voided a few months later by a Court of Appeal in Imo State which ordered a rerun won by Ben Uwajumogu of the APC.

The businessman had been inactive in politics since then until he defected to the LP and emerged as the party’s governorship candidate in April.

Mr Achonu is mainly relying on the support from Obidients, supporters of LP presidential candidate Peter Obi, to unseat Mr Uzodinma.

PDP Candidate: SAMUEL ANYANWU

Mr Anyanwu, the PDP candidate in the election, is considered a strong contender in the poll. A former PDP national secretary, the candidate is believed to have the required political networks and experience to match Mr Uzodinma’s political strength.

Although the politician lost the PDP governorship primary election in 2019, some residents consider him a better alternative to wrestle power from Mr Uzodinma.

Mr Anyanwu will be looking to climb to the state’s seat of power based on the goodwill of residents of Owerri Zone where he hails from and had represented in the Senate from 2015 to 2019.

Again, as a major contender for the position from Owerri Zone, the former senator may enjoy the sympathy of people who believe that the zone has been marginalised in the power-sharing formula in the state since the return of democratic rule in 1999.

There is clamour among the people of Owerri Zone that Mr Anyanwu deserves to be governor to compensate for the abrupt ouster of the former governor of the state, Mr Ihedioha, who hails from the zone.

More so, the PDP candidate’s promise to tackle the insecurity in the state appears to have resonated with many residents of the state who are desperate to see the end of the insecurity in the state.

However, the PDP candidate may find himself in the crossfire of a crisis ravaging the party in the South-east and the party’s waning influence in region and state by extension.

The PDP recorded three consecutive losses in the 2015, 2019 and 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria.

The Labour Party (LP)’s unprecedented dominance in the South-east during the 2023 general election was a signal that the PDP’s control of the region was over.

Lastly, Mr Anyanwu’s cold war with Mr Ihedioha has punctured his acceptance by some people of the state particularly residents of Owerri Zone who believe that the PDP candidate was behind the withdrawal of the former governor from the party’s primary.

APC Candidate: HOPE UZODINMA

Mr Uzodinma will hope to leverage his power of incumbency to ward off threats posed by his opponents. He also has the financial strength to mobilise support for his victory.
As a sitting governor, he is believed to be in control of political structures in the 27 local government areas of the state which could be used to his advantage in mobilising support for his reelection bid.

Also, Mr Uzodinma’s female deputy, Chinyere Ekomaro, may help him garner women’s votes. Women account for over 50 per cent of the total eligible voters in the state.

Mrs Ekomaro hails from Umunoha, a community in Mbaitoli, which is the local government area in the state with the highest number of PVCs (152,371) collected ahead of Saturday’s poll.

The deputy governorship candidate is married to a man from Ikeduru Local Government Area, where Mr Anyanwu, the PDP candidate, also hails from.

Voters Details

Today Saturday 11 November marks the D-Day when all the candidates contesting in the election will test their popularity.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 17 candidates on the platforms of different political parties are seeking to govern Imo, however, only four are viewed as the major contenders for the seat.

Hope Uzodinma, the incumbent governor and flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is seeking a second term, making him the candidate to beat.

Others are Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Athan Achonu of the Labour Party (LP), and Lincoln Ogunewe of the Action Alliance (AA).

Uzodinma hails from Imo West (Orlu zone) senatorial district which has 12 LGAs while Anyanwu and Ogunewe are from Ikeduru and Ezinihitte-Mbaise LGAs, respectively — both in Imo East (Owerri zone) senatorial district which has nine LGAs. Achonu, the candidate of LP, is from Ehime-Mbano LGA in Imo North (Okigwe zone) with six LGAs.

LP Candidate: ENGR Udengs Eradiri

Born in 1976, Eradiri’s foray into the murky waters of politics began in 2011 when he unsuccessfully contested for the Kolokuma/Okpokuma Yenagoa federal constituency seat under LP.

Since then, he has served in various other political capacities. Between 2018 and 2019, he was commissioner for youth development and from 2019 to 2020, he was commissioner for environment.

It is posited that the youth’s support for him may swing the pendulum in his favour.

An engineer, he is a former president of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, commissioner, and special adviser on youth matters in the NDDC.

He will also be capitalising on the popularity of Peter Obi, the LP’s presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential election, to cause an upset.

While political analysts opine that the Bayelsa governorship election is a two-horse contest, the performance of the LP in the 2023 elections underscores why the party should not be underestimated.

In 2021, he assumed the role of special assistant on youths and sports to the interim administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He continued in this capacity to then-acting managing director of NDDC from 2022 until January 2023 when the board was eventually constituted.

Backers of the LP candidate, who is a former president of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), believe that he may secure victory by leveraging the goodwill the party currently enjoys among sections of the electorate — especially the youth.

Eradiri has never won an elective seat in the state or national elections. He will struggle to compete with Diri and Sylva who have well-established political networks across the state and country.

PDP Candidate: DUOYE DIRI

Diri, a former senator, House of Representatives member, and Commissioner for Youth and Sports in the state, became governor following a court judgment that disqualified the winner of the 2019 governorship election in the state, David Lyon.

The 2019 election in Bayelsa was between Diri of the PDP and Lyon of the APC.

Lyon won with 352,552 votes, defeating Diri of the PDP with 143,172 votes.

However, a day before his swearing-in, the Supreme Court sacked him as governor-elect because his deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, had issues with the certificate he submitted to INEC.

Diri enjoys the support of the PDP members in the state, having won the party’s ticket through consensus in April 2023. He got 305 votes in the primary election. A total of 315 delegates were accredited to vote in the poll.

In September, a significant endorsement reverberated through the corridors of Bayelsa’s political environment when the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bayelsa chapter, threw its weight behind Diri’s reelection bid. The backing implies that most Christian leaders across the state will be exhorting their congregants to rally behind Diri when they cast their votes on November 11.

In a state where Christianity is considered the dominant religion, the endorsement could smooth over the governor’s reelection bid.

Diri’s potential performance was captured in a poll conducted by CellHub, a data mining group, and its consortium of data analysts and development experts.

The survey, which included 2,100 respondents from all 105 wards of the state, indicated strong support for Diri’s reelection, with 48 percent favouring his second term bid. However, 34 percent of respondents remained undecided, while 18 percent expressed support for Timipre Sylva, the APC candidate.

Diri’s effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic, infrastructural accomplishments, calm demeanour, and easy-going nature as factors that have endeared him to the majority of voters.

The survey said that 34% of undecided voters could play a pivotal role in shaping the election outcome, as their support may swing in favour of the candidate who can effectively mobilise their voting strength.

The high percentage of multidimensionally poor people in Bayelsa, as reported by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS), even though the state receives 13 percent oil derivation, could affect the governor’s reelection.

The data reveals that a large portion of the state’s population is living in multidimensional poverty, indicating that Diri’s government has not been able to address the economic and social challenges faced by the people. If effectively “weaponised” by the opposition, this could hurt the governor’s chances at the polls.

Indeed, this forms the core of Eradiri’s campaign message. The LP candidate regularly expresses his bewilderment at the reported pervasive poverty in Bayelsa, considering the state’s relatively small population and the substantial revenue allocations received from diverse sources.

APC Candidate: SYLVA

Sylva is the immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum. He was also a former governor of the state. He governed the state under the PDP.

Among others, Sylva will be counting on his accomplishments when he led the state and the clout of his party, the APC, at the national level.

Voters Details

Today, Saturday 11th November, the people of Bayelsa State will go to the polls to elect a governor in what promises to be a very competitive election.

It, alongside that of Imo and Kogi that will be held on the same day, is going to be the first off-cycle polls to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after the 2023 general election.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is hoping to maintain control of the oil-rich state, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) is aiming to win again after the Supreme Court judgment that handed over power to Governor Duoye Diri in 2020.

The then APC candidate David Lyon won the November 2019 governorship election but the Supreme Court nullified his victory because his running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, presented false information to INEC in aid of his qualification for the polls.

SDP: MURITALA YAKUBU AJAKA

Muritala Ajaka was the former deputy national publicity secretary of the APC.

He resigned his party membership, after which he emerged as the gubernatorial candidate of the SDP for the November 11 election.

Many residents see him as one of the likely winners.

He is from the eastern senatorial district, the region with the highest number of voters and population.

PDP: SENATOR DINO MELAYE

He is the gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in the coming election.

A former House of Representatives member and senator, Melaye contested the governorship primaries of his party in 2019 and lost.

He was the spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election.

He is famous for his flamboyance.

Melaye hails from Ayetoro Gbede in Ijumu Local Government Area of the state.

APC Candidates: USMAN ODODO

Ododo is a former auditor-general for local government in the state.

He enjoys the advantage of being the only candidate from the central senatorial district of the state, the support of the incumbent Yahaya Bello, and his party (the APC), which leads at the federal level.

He is, however, faced with opposition from some members of his party who lost out in the primaries.

Kogi Details