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Senator Rabi’u Kwankwaso has asked the
people of Kano State to accept the results of the
presidential and national assembly elections in
good faith.

This was made known on Tuesday in an audio
tweet of Kwankwaso’s speech to Kano
electorates by President Muhammadu Buhari’s
Personal Assistant on Social Media, Bashir
Ahmad.

In the audio, the bigwig of the opposition
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spoke in Hausa
to placate the people over the loss.

He said: “We, in the PDP, witnessed all that
happened during the presidential and National
Assembled elections.

“But, we are appealing to our supporters to be
calm as we seek to reclaim our mandate though
the process of law.

“Let no one take the laws into his hands. We
urge our people to brace up for the coming
governorship and State Houses of Assembly
elections.

“As for the Presidential election results, the APC
won some states and the PDP also won some
states. Only God knows what will happen in
the near future but we should remember that
no matter the final outcome, God is in charge.

“Let’s avoid a repeat of the 2011 post election
violence that saw the loss of hundreds of lives
and properties.”

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reliably gathered that the governor may have used the opportunity of the meeting to brief the president on the fresh violent attacks in some communities in Kajuru and Kachia local government areas of the state.

Mr El-Rufai had earlier via a statement issued by his spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed fresh attacks on some communities in Kajuru and Kachia local government areas of the state.

The statement read: “The Kaduna State Government has today (Tuesday) received the sad news of renewed attacks in Kajuru and Kachia local government areas.

“The government condemns this recourse to violence and calls on all communities to support the efforts to restore calm in the area.’’

NAN reports that the outcome of the meeting between the president and El-Rufai, which lasted for less than an hour, was still being awaited as at the time of filing this report.

handie:
Gerrout of where? Not till 2023.... Abi u never see result?

Lucid1:
OP you have serious mental issues, you better change the title of this thread. PDPigz

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he will wait for the formal results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission on the outcome of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly polls, instead of relying on rumours.

Buhari spoke shortly on arrival in Abuja from Katsina, his home state, where he spent the weekend to participate in the election.

“I don’t want to depend on rumours, but we will rather wait for INEC to announce the results”, he told the Nigerian Television Authority in Abuja.

Speaking further, he said, “Well, l hope that Nigerians will appreciate that it was this government which made sure that they were allowed in security and peace to cast their votes for whichever party and candidates they wanted.”

The results rolling in from the 36 states show a tight race between the President and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.

TonyeBarcanista:
Atiku will be elected...


Meanwhile, what appointment can be compared to a guaranteed seat at the red chambers?

ClearFlair:
Buhari is going back to Aso Villa for another four years whether you like it or not.

intruxive:

Lol Ipob trying to start sowing seed of discord when it is clear thr messiah has failed lol
Buhari won ekiti with more than 16,000 osun by 10,000 votes. Thats the only official number yet

An All Progressives Congress supporter on Twitter, Kayode Ogundamisi, disagreed with Special Adviser on Media to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, Salihu Yakasai on Monday, over claims by Gadnuje’s aide that the South-West had failed to “perform.”

Yakasai lamented the “lower-than-expected” votes President Muhammadu Buhari had gathered so far in the South-West.

The South-West, which has the second highest number of voters and has six All Progressives Congress governors in all its six states, was expected to give bloc votes to Buhari.

However , figures released by the Independent National Electoral Commission show otherwise.

Tweeting through his handle @dawisu, he wrote, “I am terribly disappointed and saddened by the South-West results for the APC despite being biggest beneficiary of this government both in terms of juicy appointments and projects (they even got a whole new rail line from Lagos to Ibadan) yet APC narrowly won, shame.”

Ganduje’s aide warned the South-West that the North may not give bloc votes in 2023 due to this development.

Reacting to the defeat of Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, who failed to win the Oyo-South senatorial election, Yakasai urged the Yoruba to stop overreacting over his post and admit the truth.

Yakasai added, “Instead of insulting me up and down, the South-West APC needs to do some soul searching inwards ahead of 2023. There will be no bloc vote from the North for any party because Buhari will not be on the ballot paper. The earlier this conversation starts, the better for us all. #Peace.

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has taken an
early lead ahead of Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State, based on results declared so far.

The PDP has won in 10 out of 14 local governments declared so far. The APC won the remaining four.

The total results collated so far gives PDP a total score of 182,968 against 134,208 for the APC.

Some of the local governments won by the PDP include Ado, Apa, Agatu, Obi, Okpokwu, Buruku, Gwer East, Gwer West, Guma and Logo.

The four local governments won by the APC are
Tarka, Ushongo, Ohimini and Koshisha.

Benue has 23 local governments, the result from nine states are expected shortly.

The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Worldwide, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has decried
attempts by some influential individuals in
states in the South East to mutilate and change
results of the Presidential election held in the
area last Saturday to the advantage of one of the presidential candidates.
In a release, Chief Nwodo alleged that some
local government and INEC officials were being
coerced and enticed to change the collated
figures of the election to enable the presidential
candidate to score up to the mandatory twenty-five percent in the States.

The President General said that the results of the
elections in the states in the geopolitical zone
are already in the public domain, and that any
attempt to falsify them would be vehemently
resisted by the people.
He called on the international and local observers to take note and warned the
intending perpetrators to desist from this
perfidious act capable of inciting violence in an
otherwise peaceful exercise in the zone.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has removed Prof. Musa Izam, the Collation Officer it assigned to Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, the News Agency of Nigeria reports

Izam, a physics lecturer at the University of Jos, had earlier attempted to abscond without declaring the results of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, but was apprehended by youths in the area, who forced him back to the collation centre.

“We had to remove him because he was drunk and could not perform the assignment,” Mr Osaretin Imahiyereobo, Head, Voter Education, of INEC in Plateau, told NAN in a telephone interview on Sunday in Jos.

He said that INEC had to act fast to avoid delay in the collation exercise.

“We are waiting for him to come to Jos and explain why he behaved the way he did,” the INEC official told NAN.

NAN reports that Izam, who started the collation of the results brought from the local government’s Wards on Sunday, told party agents, INEC officials and observers that he needed a little time to ease himself.

The official, however , disappeared from the centre, and took off to Jos.

According to Mr Michael Abi, PDP chairman in Bokkos Local Government, some youths, who saw Izam leaving the centre, quickly mobilised themselves and chase him

“The youths chased him and caught up with him at Maikatako near Kuba, about 40 kilometres away from Bokkos.

“When he was brought back to the collation centre, he quickly apologised and promised to continue with his work.

“His attitude is shocking, considering the crucial nature of this assignment. He has refused to work and this has delayed the collation and declaration of the outcome of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the local government, ’’ he said.

Mawuyau , an APC stalwart, who agreed that the Professor’s attitude was “shocking and uncalled for’’, urged the anxious election officials to forgive Izam.

“I only went to visit a friend in town but the people misconstrued the whole thing


“I only stepped out to go and see a friend along with the Special Adviser to Governor Simon Lalong on Security matters, but the people thought I had left my duty post, which is not true.

“I did apologise to them since they were not happy with the action I took, but INEC felt otherwise,” Izam stated.

Alleged political thugs, Sunday stormed the
office of the Independent National Electoral
office in Oriade local government area, Osun
state, and set all the ballot boxes on fire.

Reports have it that they 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.

Violence has erupted in the Ago Palace Way,
Okota area of Lagos where alleged thugs of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) are
burning used ballot papers, leaving voters in
disarray.

Voters have taken to social media with videos
showing shootings and major disruption.

Currently in Ago -Okota
. Two people just got
shot close to my
house ! All we heard is
“if you’re not voting
for APC “ leave here . We had to run for our
lives , they burnt the
ballot boxes. This isn’t
peaceful . ! Please
repost

AGO PALACE WAY IS
UNDER SIEGE.. WARD
16, 17 AND 18… OPC
are forcing people to
vote ONLY APC… If u
refuse to vote PDP, u are pushed
out…..Century bus top

APC thugs just burnt
our ballot boxes at
ward 018, in Ago
palace way, Okota.
This is live. I am a
witness. This is not a country but a jungle.
No security men on
sight.

Suspected ballot thieves snatched a
ballot box from a polling unit at Ute-Okpu
community in Ika North East Local Government,
Delta State, Saturday morning, and took it to
unknown hideout, despite President
Muhammadu Buhari’s warning that such persons stand the risk of losing their lives.

Vanguard learned that the ballot snatchers
caught security agents, including soldiers
deployed to the area unawares.


However, soldiers cordoned off the area soon
after the incident, searching voters and
demanding that every person within the
surroundings of the polling unit show his or
her Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, or be taken
as a ballot thief.

A voter, who spoke to our reporter on the
incident, said, “There is tension at Ute-Okpu
over the incident, the boys of a well-known
politician stormed the polling unit, snatched the
ballot box and ran away with it in their
vehicle. There was nothing the voters could do.”

Reports from several parts of the state indicate
that there was slow reading of card readers at
most of the filling stations, but at parts of
Agbor, people voted as early as 9.00 am after
accreditation.