Mauricio Pochettino has been sacked from his role as Tottenham coach, it has been confirmed.

The Argentine manager had come under pressure amid his side's underwhelming start to the season, as they sit 14th in the Premier League table and 20 points behind leaders Liverpool. The London club are also 11 points behind fourth-placed Manchester City, having failed to win any of their last five games in the English top-flight.

And chairman Daniel Levy has confirmed that the club have decided to make a change.

"We were extremely reluctant to make this change and it is not a decision the board has taken lightly, nor in haste," he told the club's website..

“Regrettably domestic results at the end of last season and beginning of this season have been extremely disappointing.

“It falls to the Board to make the difficult decisions - this one made more so given the many memorable moments we have had with Mauricio and his coaching staff - but we do so in the Club's best interests.

“Mauricio and his coaching staff will always be part of our history. I have the utmost admiration for the manner in which he dealt with the difficult times away from a home ground whilst we built the new stadium and for the warmth and positivity he brought to us. I should like to thank him and his coaching staff for all they have contributed. They will always be welcome here.

“We have a talented squad. We need to re-energise and look to deliver a positive season for our supporters.”

More to follow...

I hope Kano Province 2 ( Gateway Parish) is among the 17 new provinces created?

so sad! wadata market was gutted by fire on 2nd of January this year now modern market again.One more too many

This one no see Ganduje back.Ganduje is the real Mr "Infrastructure" he has transformed kano within a short space of time.

Rest in peace Epa...lobi stars and the entire Nigerian professional football league will miss u..continue to rest in the bosom of your creator

Makurdi and Cultism na 5 & 6.Naka street,lagos street,North Bank,Wadata,Ankpa quarters/Modern market axis,Barracks road(abejukolo),and Wurukum (behind library) all danger zones.May God deliver makurdi youths from cultism.

Aside the dollar issues Ganduje remains the best governor in Nigeria in terms of infrastructure and prompt payment of salaries

hisexcellency34:
Good news. Heard PDP won in Kano too

APC won with about 7000 votes

Governorship candidate of the Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for Benue State in the ongoing 2019 general elections, Barr. Emmanuel Jime, has congratulated his opponent, incumbent Governor Samuel Ortom, via telephone call, for emerging victorious in the Saturday March 23, 2019 supplementary election.

Barr. Emmanuel Jime, who could not wait for the official collation of results to show his sportsmanship, made the call Saturday evening at exactly 6:05PM (local time) as results of the supplementary election began filtering through the socal media with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Samuel Ortom, coasting home to victory with unassailable margin.

Recall that in the first round of the election held Saturday 9th March, 2019, Ortom had polled 410,576 votes against Jime's 329,022 votes, leading the later with 81,554 votes margin.

The election was however declared inconclusive and Saturday 23rd March, 2019 was fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the supplementary election because, according to the country's electoral guidelines, elections were cancelled or could not be held in polling units with a total of 121,019 registered voters since the margin of lead between the APC and PDP was less than the number of cancelled votes.

Governor Samuel Ortom's victory is coming amidst outcry by majority of Benue people over the Governor's abysmal performance in office, especially in the areas of salaries and other basic infrastructures.

Jime, a lawyer cum politician, is a three term former House of Representatives member representing Makurdi/Guma Federal Constituency.

Re-run: Ganduje, Tambuwal, Lalong, Ortom, Abubakar move to save seat today.

Ganduje, Tambuwal, Lalong, Ortom, Abubakar
Five first term governors looking for a second term in office will today face their arch rivals at select but highly dicey polling units in some local government areas of their states to save their seats.

On March 9, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted gubernatorial elections in 29 states.


However, except for Kano, Sokoto, Plateau, Benue, Bauchi, Adamawa and Rivers states, the remaining 22 states have either given a second chance to their governors or elected new ones.

In the seven states mentioned above, all the governors are seeking a second term under the platform of either the APC or PDP.

But, probably because the stakes are high, elections there were declared inconclusive, meaning that the governors must go back to the trenches with those who want to seize the baton from them.

Interests and to a certain extent, desperation to win are not restricted to the concerned governors as both the APC and PDP at the centre are fully involved in supporting their sitting governors and the scheming is already tilted towards 2023.

The APC wants to take over in Sokoto, Benue and Rivers to add to its kitty while the PDP is doing much to retain where it has governors and go ahead to win Kano, Adamawa, Plateau and Bauchi.

These states are very important because of their voting population and no political party would be comfortable without them.

And though INEC said it would conduct supplementary elections in 18 of the 36 states, attention is focused on the states where the fortunes of incumbent governors would be decided by the electorate.

Today, Governors Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (Sokoto), Samuel Ortom (Benue) and Simon Bako Lalong (Plateau) will most likely know their fates while in Bauchi where there will also be supplementary election in some locations, Governor Mohammed Abubakar would still have to wait a bit longer to know if he would remain in office for the next four years.

In Adamawa, the Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRDD) and its candidate, Rev. Eric Theman, had approached the court seeking outright cancellation of the gubernatorial election, meaning the state has been exempted from today’s contest in respect of the governorship.

Analysts believe that MRDD’s claim in the court has provided a temporary respite for Governor Jibrilla Bindow who is seeking a second term under the platform of the APC but is facing a serious challenge from Umar Fintiri of the PDP.

In Rivers, Wike also received some oxygen to re-strategize following the decision of INEC to continue with collation and re-run in the state on April 13.

Ganduje, Tambuwal, Lalong, Ortom, Abubakar

Gama ward is decider in Kano

In Kano, today’s re-run election would be focused on Gama ward, being the most densely populated ward of all the areas where supplementary election would hold in the state. The ward has a total of 40,821 registered voters.

After the March 9 gubernatorial election that was declared inconclusive, INEC said only 13, 148 voters were accredited in the area out of which 7,000 voted for the PDP and the remaining 4,080 voters cast ballots for the APC.

Both the APC and its candidate, Ganduje and the PDP alongside its candidate, Engr. Kabir Abba Yusuf, had dedicated night and day in the past few days trying to woo voters to their sides.

Both parties have for the past two weeks engaged in house-to-house campaigns with a view to securing more votes today.

Although, the re-run is scheduled to take place in 30 of the 44 local governments in Kano State, Gama is considered a darling of both APC and PDP largely because of the bulk of votes expected from there.

The APC-led government had for the past two weeks, suspended virtually all other activities and focused attention on Gama. During the period under review, the government has constructed about 20 boreholes in the area, renovated the only healthcare facility, Isa Kaita Primary Healthcare Centre and is about completing the various road projects in the area among other activities taking place there, all courtesy of today’s re-run election.

Before the election was declared inconclusive, PDP’s, Abba Yusuf had 1,014,474 votes and is therefore ahead of Ganduje who had 987,819 and needs 26,655 votes to close the gap, secure more and then retain his seat. Anything short of this would mean a defeat.

A resident of Gama, Alhaji Aminu Idi Gama said, “To many of us, this re-run is a blessing to the entire people of Gama because…our votes earned us serious development within just two weeks.”

“If the electorate will hold politicians hostage in this style, I am sure they will achieve a lot without any difficulty because it shows votes count these days,” he said.

Another resident of Gama, Malam Ghali Ibrahim, said no one can determine which party would get the highest votes in Gama because they both devised means of getting more votes today.

Gritty battle in Sokoto

The governorship election was declared inconclusive because the cancelled votes totalling 76,403 was higher than the margin between the two leading parties in the state.

Governor Tambuwal of the PDP who scored 489,558 votes is ahead of APC’s Ahmed Aliyu who scored 486,145 votes. There is a difference of 3,413 votes between the two and they will now struggle during the re-run.

Over voting, wanton destruction of electoral materials, snatching of ballot boxes and other forms of malpractice were noted to have led to the cancelation of votes in the affected areas where there would be supplementary elections today.

Election will be conducted in 135 polling units across 22 local government areas of the state. The PDP is not happy with the supplementary election, arguing that since it was leading, it should be declared winner.

Tambuwal had insisted he should be declared winner of the governorship polls while on the other hand, the APC accepted the idea of supplementary election, saying it was most affected by the cancelation.

When contacted on the allegation that some electoral officials were compromised during the last election, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Abubakar Sadiq Musa, said he was not aware of such.

‘’I do not believe in sparing the rod to spoil the child. I have spoken to security agencies that if anybody commits a criminal offence, please arrest him, if I do, arrest me. If you have a complaint against Sadiq, put it in writing, if you prove it right, I am ready to surrender myself to a court of law,” he said.

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 10, AIG Mohammed Mustapha, assured of readiness of the police and other security agencies for the election.

40 polling units to decide Plateau

Results from 40 polling units in nine local government areas of Plateau State will today determine who between Lalong of the APC and Useni of the PDP would be sworn in as the next governor of the state on May 29.

Results from the 17 local government areas of the state had tipped Lalong who polled 583, 255 votes ahead of Useni who polled 538, 326 votes. The two major contenders’ closest rival is Jon Temlong of the Action Democratic Party who polled 4, 665 votes.

Despite a lead margin of 44,929, INEC declared the March 9 gubernatorial elections in the state inconclusive and re-scheduled a re-run for today.

The state’s Collation officer, Prof. Richard Anande, had declared that the margin of 44,929 between the two leading parties was less than the number of registered voters in areas where elections were cancelled which stood at 49, 377.

The governorship supplementary election will take place in Bassa, Barkin Ladi, Bokkos, Jos North, Kanam, Langtang South, Mangu, Pankshin and Shendam local government areas. Plateau State INEC through the Head of Voter Education and Publicity, Osaretin Imahiyereobo, said for Barkin Ladi, the re-run would take place in Barikin Joji polling unit while in Bassa, it would take place in Gabia II (002) and Mista Ali I (006) polling units.

For Bokkos, the supplementary election will be conducted in Buut, 009, Primary School; Bot, 004, Primary School; Mandark 005, Primary School; Hurti, 003, Primary School and Dimak Wanze 003 while for Jos North, the exercise will take place in Jenta Mangoro (014), Plateau Hotel Junction (018) and Unguwan Abuja Tudun Wada II (027).

Imahiyereobo also stated that for Kanam, the re-run would be conducted in Gagdi (001) and Namaran Primary School (001) while in Mangu, he said, all 18 polling units would hold their elections in Mangu 1 Registration Area, Kantoma (014) polling unit in Mangu Halle Registration Area as well as Ajing (012) polling unit in Panyam Registration Area.

Though the re-run will give the PDP an opportunity to try to close the wide margin, the party’s candidate, Sen. Useni, had expressed displeasure.

Useni who said he was optimistic of winning, called on PDP stakeholders and supporters to stand tall, saying he was still in the race and could not turn back when he was coasting home to victory.

On their part, the Deputy Director, Media and Publicity Committee of the APC Campaign Organization, Barrister Festus Faunter, said despite being in a comfortable lead with a wide margin, the party would not take the supplementary election for granted.

Election to hold in Benue’s 22 councils

The need for the supplementary elections holding today in 22 of the 23 LGA of Benue State was necessitated by the number of cancelled votes that exceeded the gap between the two highest scorers in the first phase of the polls conducted by INEC penultimate Saturday.

The incumbent Governor Ortom of the PDP and his closet rival, APC’s Barrister Emmanuel Jime, are the main actors of the supplementary exercise.

It would be recalled that the PDP polled the highest votes of 410,576 during the March 9 elections while the APC trailed behind with 339, 022 votes, leaving a difference of 81,554 votes as averred by the INEC Returning Officer who is also the Vice Chancellor of University of Jos, Professor Sabestine Maimako.

Professor Maimako had submitted that votes cancelled and places where voting could not hold due to violence cut across different wards and polling units across the state with a total registered voters of 121, 019, which is higher than the 81, 554 votes with which the PDP was leading, hence, the need for supplementary elections to determine a winner.

INEC had said at a stakeholders’ meeting a few days ago that 22 LGAs are involved. Snatching of ballot boxes, over-voting and manual accreditation led to cancellation of election in Azendeshi in Ukum LGA with 13, 611 registered voters, RA Ijigo, Olokolobo and Okpali in Okpokwu LGA with voting strength of 11, 153 as well as Nyiev RA, Tsekeleke PU, Amua Health clinic PU, Makundu, Saawuan, Tse-Kpanye and Dzegeor Inyundu Market square in Guma LGA with a total registered voters of 14, 982 among others.

The electoral umpire has published 204 polling units for the supplementary election. Their combined voting strength stands at 121,670 while a total of 109,733 PVCs have been collected by their owners in the areas affected.

INEC’s Resident Commissioner in the state, Nentawe Yilwatda, disclosed that apart from Katsina Ala Local Government Area, the supplementary election for governorship would be conducted in 22 of the 23 LGAs of the state.

A lecturer at the Benue State University, Dr. Chile Ngusha, opined that as for the Benue rerun election, INEC shouldn’t have earmarked money for it, saying Ortom should be declared winner.

“This is because the difference of scores between the PDP and APC is over 81,000. And if you look at the number of PVCs collected in the affected areas which was around 109,000 and you subtract the difference of the 121,000 cancelled votes, you will have 28,000 votes remaining which now makes Ortom to look for only 14, 000 votes to win,” he said.

Gov may not emerge in Bauchi today

As the PDP and APC on one hand and INEC on the other continue to bicker over the results of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State, there is uncertainty on the emergence of a clear winner in the re-run governorship election today.

The two parties have been at logger heads over the unending disagreement over the Tafawa Balewa results since the election was declared inconclusive by the state’s Returning Officer, Professor Mohammed Kyari.

Results from Tafawa Balewa were rejected based on the alleged violence at the collation centre during which some election materials including results sheets were taken away.

Subsequent recommendations by the Festus Okoye-led committee from INEC that visited the state brought another dimension to the debacle.

The Okoye committee recommended that the results be re-collated to ascertain who between APC’s Governor Abubakar and PDP’s Senator Bala Mohammed won in Tafawa Balewa.

While the PDP welcomed the idea, the APC kicked against it. PDP Chairman Alhaji Hamza Koshe Akuyam argued that in all, their candidate got 469, 512 votes ahead of APC’s Governor Abubakar who got 465, 453 votes, giving a margin of 4,059 votes between the two.

According to him, if the results from Tafawa Balewa should be considered, the PDP would lead the APC with over 14,000 votes even before the supplementary election for the remaining over 22,000 votes will be held.

However, the state APC chairman, Alhaji Uba Ahmed Nana, argued that INEC would only be just if the results of Tafawa Balewa and Bauchi local government areas were cancelled and fresh elections held because the elections in the two local government areas were allegedly rigged in favour of the opposition PDP.

An order given by an Abuja High Court following a suit filed by the APC and Governor Abubakar brought another dimension to the issues and heightened the already tensed political atmosphere in the state.

Despite the political quagmire, INEC said it was prepared to conduct supplementary elections in other locations but excluded the contentious Tafawa Balewa.

The supplementary election according to INEC will be held in 36 polling units in 29 registration areas (wards) across 15 of the 20 local government areas of the state, adding that a total of 22, 759 registered voters would participate in the exercise.

According to INEC, the supplementary election would be held in some locations in Alkaleri, Bogoro Darazo, Dass, Gamawa and Ganjuwa local government areas.

Similar re-run would be held in Giade, Itas Gadau, Jama’are, Katagum, Kirfi, Misau, Ningi, Toro and Shira local government areas.

Daily Trust reports that even if results from all these local government areas are declared today, there is no certainty of having a clear winner. The verdict of the court in respect of Tafawa Balewa may change the pendulum which, in addition to a few other factors, would determine who wins.

Iheanacho must be more professional to return to Super Eagles – Rohr

Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho must be more committed if he wishes to return to the Super Eagles, according to coach Gernot Rohr.

Iheanacho has been left out of the Eagles games against Seychelles and Egypt in Asaba.

“We are not satisfied with his recent performances. He has to be more professional, it’s not good enough to be all the time funny. You have to be serious. He has to be more serious in training,” demanded Rohr.

“He has to do that if he wants to show he wants to come back in his club and also with us.”

The Eagles coach also said Iheanacho will use the FIFA window to show new Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers he should be in the starting XI of the Premier League club.

“He needs to show his new manager at his club that he wants to get back to starting team of Leicester,” he explained.

Nigeria U17 coach Manu Garba, who gave Iheanacho his first breakthrough in international football, has also insisted the forward has to work on his attitude to be back in serious reckoning for both club and country.

The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has deployed five Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, DIGs, and three Assistant Inspectors of Police, AIGs, to strengthen security during the the supplementary elections on Saturday.

Others deployed are 15 additional Commissioners of Police, CPs, to provide supervision, direction and support to the existing security already in place in states where the elections would hold.

A statement by the force spokesman, Frank Mba disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja.

DIG Usman Tilli Abubakar was posted Adamawa, DIG Yakubu Jubrin, posted Benue; DIG Taiwo Lakanu, posted to Plateau; DIG Anthony Ogbizi, posted to Kano and; DIG Godwin Nwobodo, posted to Bauchi State.

The spokesman said that out of the 15 CPs, three each were deployed to Benue and Sokoto, two each to Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano and Plateau States while Imo got one.

Mr Mba, an assistant commissioner of police, said the I-G has also directed the Zonal AIGs and their respective CPs in states where elections would take place to ensure adequate security.

He said the police boss charged them to remain patriotic, steadfast, professional, neutral and civil, but firm, in their conducts and actions during the elections.

Mr Mba warned politicians not to undermine the electoral process by engage in ballot box snatching, vote trading and violence of all kinds.

He also enjoined the public to cooperate with security operatives for successful conduct of the elections.

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Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje the governorship candidate of the All Progressive congress (APC) has moved contractors to work in one of the wards where re run into the governornship elections will be held this weekend.

In what seems to be a last minutes option to appease the people of GAMA ward in Nassarawa local government area,where over 40,000 voters are expected to cast their votes in the supplementary election slated for Saturday,23rd of March 2019.

A community which has been abandoned during his four years in office is suddenly wearing a face lift as contractors are already on site working round the clock to ensure that the project is completed and comissioned before Saturday in a bid to pacify the good people of GAMA to vote for him.

When our correspondence visited the site and interacted with some of the people,they were in joyous mood but most of them stated categorically that the project is coming at a wrong time as most of them have made up their mind on the candidate to vote during the supplementary elections as no amount of project,persuation and money bags can change their mind.

SOME INCONCLUSIVE ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA BEFORE NOW

Case Number (1)

ANAMBRA SENATORIAL ELECTION 2011
Dora Akunyili( APGA) ——-66,273
Chris Ngige ( ACN) ——65,576
Margin —697
Cancelled votes——-7,930
INEC Decision: election declared inconclusive, supplementary elections conducted

Case Number (2)

ANAMBRA GUBER ELECTION 2013
Obiano ( APGA) —174,710
Tony Nwoye ( PDP) —-94,956
Margin——-79,754
Cancelled votes——-113,113
INEC Decision: election declared inconclusive, supplementary elections conducted

Case Number (3)

IMO GUBER ELECTIONS 2015
Okorocha( APC) —-385,671
Ihedioha( PDP) ——-306,142
Margin———79,529
Cancelled votes——-144,715
INEC Decision: election declared inconclusive,

CASE NUMBER (4)

KOGI GUBER ELECTION 2015
Abubakar Audu( APC) —-240,867
Wada Idris ( PDP) —199,514
Margin —————41,353
Cancelled votes ———49,953
INEC Decision: election declared inconclusive, supplementary elections conducted

CASE NUMBER (5)

BAYELSA GUBER ELECTIONS 2015
Dickson ( PDP) ——-105,748
Sylva ( APC)——72,594
Margin ——-33,154
Cancelled votes ---- 120,000 (due to over-voting)
INEC Decision: election declared inconclusive, supplementary elections conducted.
But 2019 inconclusive elections is caused by PMB and APC in connivance with INEC. political stupidity on the high side.

Ganduje In Abuja, Seeks Removal Of Kano CP, Wakili

Following the stalemated governorship election in Kano State, the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has travelled to Abuja to press for the
under Mr Wakili had maintained neutrality before, during and after the election, which saw the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate Abba Yusuf leading with 1,020,465 votes, against Mr Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who scored 987,459 votes.

Credible sources told DAILY NIGERIAN that the governor’s entourage includes the Speaker of Kano House of Assembly, Kabiru Rurum; the state chairman of APC, Abdullahi Abbas and; the governor’s top political strategist, Nasiru Aliko-Koki.

Targeted for the lobby, a source who preferred not to be named said, are national chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole; national leader of APC Bola Tinubu and; some influential presidency officials.

Recall that the deputy governor of Kano State, Nasiru Gawuna, alongside the state commissioner for Local Government, Murtala Sule-Garo and chairman of Nassarawa Local Government, Lamin Sani, were involved in result sheet snatching at Airport Road collation centre around 3am on Monday, a situation that led to a fierce brawl.

Party agents reportedly beat the trio to a pulp, and police later rescued the deputy governor and arrested the commissioner and the local government chairman.

On Tuesday, at a press conference to douse tension over the inconclusive governorship election in Kano, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II commended the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Wakili, for maintaining peace and order in the state.

Mr Wakili, a fearless cop who wages war against drug abuse and political thuggery in the state, is arguably the most-loved police commissioner ever posted to the state.

For Kano the election is dicey it might go either way

Likely Winners In States Where Elections Are Inconclusive

Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections were conducted last Saturday, March 9 in twenty nine states of the country.

While results in some of the states have been announced and winners declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, results for the governorship election in five states were however declared inconclusive.

The states are Bauchi, Adamawa, Plateau and Sokoto and Benue.

The electoral body declared the election inconclusive in these states following a slim margin of win, less than the number of cancelled votes.

In Bauchi state, the results shows APC polled 465,456 while PDP scored 469,512 with rejected votes at 21,419 and margin of lead between PDP and APC standing at 4059 while Cancelled Votes is 45,312

In Adamawa state, PDP polled 367, 471 while APC scored 334,995 with margin of win standing at 32,476 and cancelled Votes at 40,988.

For Plateau state APC polled 583,255 while PDP scored 538,326 with total registered voters at 2,480,455 and total accredited voters standing at 1,157,025. Total valid votes stood at 1,154,678 and rejected 15,691, Total votes cast 1,154,678, Margin between the two parties 44,929 and the cancelled votes 49,377

In Sokoto the PDP polled 489,558 votes while APC scored 486,145 votes with margin of win at 3,413 while cancellation in 136 polling units with 75,403 registered voters
With the elections declared inconclusive, a rerun is expected at a later date to be determined by the electoral umpire.

Bauchi
For Bauchi state the results declared shows the PDP’s Bala Mohammed in early lead over incumbent governor, Mohammed Abubakar of the APC. Meanwhile, Mohammed Kyari, the returning officer of the guber election in the state rejected the result from Tafawa Balewa local government following reports of violence and disruption of collation of results at the local government collation centre.
Therefore, Mr Kyari said due to the confusion around how the results were collated in breach of INEC guideline, he could not accept the result from Tafawa Balewa.

Tafawa Balewa is a stronghold of the opposition PDP and is one of the three local governments that make up the constituency of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. With this in mind, it is believed that the PDP’s candidate, Mr. Bala is likely to defeat the current governor, Mr. Abubakar when the election for this local government is conducted having led in 19 local government.

Sokoto
For Sokoto state the result showed just a little margin between incumbent Governor, Aminu Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and his major challenger, Aliyu Ahmad of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The margin of win between the two leading parties, APC and PDP, was given as 3, 413.
It is believed that Mr. Tambuwal would eventually win the guber poll, bearing in the mind the lead he has maintained in the initial election.

Plateau
For plateau state, a winner is hard to predict now. This is because elections are to be conducted in 14 local government areas with just a margin of 44, 929 between APC and PDP
The incumbent governor and candidate of the APC Simon Lalong polled 583,255 while his opponent, Jeremiah Useni of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, polled 538,326.

The 14 local government areas the elections will be conducted are Jos East, Jos North, Jos South, Kanam, Langtang North, Langtang South, Mangu, Panshin, Kanke, Mikang, Quanpan, Riyom, Shendam, and Wase.

It is expected that Governor Lalong would emerge victorious whenever elections are conducted in the remaining local governments. But Mr. Useni cannot be ruled out of victory either, he may just cause an upset because he was not expected to do as much as he’s done in the polls against a younger opponent.Useni is 76 while Lalong is 55.

Adamawa
In Adamawa state, the margin of lead between the major political parties is 32,476. The contest is obviously between Mr Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP who polled 367, 471, and Governor Jibrila Bindow of the APC polled 334, 995 votes.

It should be noted that before the election was declared inconclusive Mr. Fintiri, was leading in the Adamawa state governorship election.
With that realization the candidate of the PDP is predicted to win the guber poll when the election is eventually conducted in the state.

Benue
Samuel Ortom of the PDP scored the highest number of votes of 410,576.
He was closely followed by Emmanuel Jime of the APC who polled a total number of 329,022 votes.
The margin between both Ortom and Jime is 81,554 so it was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

INEC said its decision was based on statistics it gave that 121,011 electorates were either not able to vote or election did not hold in their areas.
A rerun for the polls is expected to produce an eventual winner. Ortom is favoured to win because of the wide lead he already has.

Likely Winners In States Where Elections Are Inconclusive

Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections were conducted last Saturday, March 9 in twenty nine states of the country.
While results in some of the states have been announced and winners declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, results for the governorship election in five states were however declared inconclusive.

The states are Bauchi, Adamawa, Plateau and Sokoto and Benue.
The electoral body declared the election inconclusive in these states following a slim margin of win, less than the number of cancelled votes.

In Bauchi state, the results shows APC polled 465,456 while PDP scored 469,512 with rejected votes at 21,419 and margin of lead between PDP and APC standing at 4059 while Cancelled Votes is 45,312

In Adamawa state, PDP polled 367, 471 while APC scored 334,995 with margin of win standing at 32,476 and cancelled Votes at 40,988.

For Plateau state APC polled 583,255 while PDP scored 538,326 with total registered voters at 2,480,455 and total accredited voters standing at 1,157,025. Total valid votes stood at 1,154,678 and rejected 15,691, Total votes cast 1,154,678, Margin between the two parties 44,929 and the cancelled votes 49,377

In Sokoto the PDP polled 489,558 votes while APC scored 486,145 votes with margin of win at 3,413 while cancellation in 136 polling units with 75,403 registered voters
With the elections declared inconclusive, a rerun is expected at a later date to be determined by the electoral umpire.

Bauchi
For Bauchi state the results declared shows the PDP’s Bala Mohammed in early lead over incumbent governor, Mohammed Abubakar of the APC. Meanwhile, Mohammed Kyari, the returning officer of the guber election in the state rejected the result from Tafawa Balewa local government following reports of violence and disruption of collation of results at the local government collation centre.
Therefore, Mr Kyari said due to the confusion around how the results were collated in breach of INEC guideline, he could not accept the result from Tafawa Balewa.

Tafawa Balewa is a stronghold of the opposition PDP and is one of the three local governments that make up the constituency of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. With this in mind, it is believed that the PDP’s candidate, Mr. Bala is likely to defeat the current governor, Mr. Abubakar when the election for this local government is conducted having led in 19 local government.

Sokoto
For Sokoto state the result showed just a little margin between incumbent Governor, Aminu Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and his major challenger, Aliyu Ahmad of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The margin of win between the two leading parties, APC and PDP, was given as 3, 413.
It is believed that Mr. Tambuwal would eventually win the guber poll, bearing in the mind the lead he has maintained in the initial election.

Plateau
For plateau state, a winner is hard to predict now. This is because elections are to be conducted in 14 local government areas with just a margin of 44, 929 between APC and PDP
The incumbent governor and candidate of the APC Simon Lalong polled 583,255 while his opponent, Jeremiah Useni of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, polled 538,326.

The 14 local government areas the elections will be conducted are Jos East, Jos North, Jos South, Kanam, Langtang North, Langtang South, Mangu, Panshin, Kanke, Mikang, Quanpan, Riyom, Shendam, and Wase.

It is expected that Governor Lalong would emerge victorious whenever elections are conducted in the remaining local governments. But Mr. Useni cannot be ruled out of victory either, he may just cause an upset because he was not expected to do as much as he’s done in the polls against a younger opponent.Useni is 76 while Lalong is 55.

Adamawa
In Adamawa state, the margin of lead between the major political parties is 32,476. The contest is obviously between Mr Ahmadu Fintiri of the PDP who polled 367, 471, and Governor Jibrila Bindow of the APC polled 334, 995 votes.

It should be noted that before the election was declared inconclusive Mr. Fintiri, was leading in the Adamawa state governorship election.
With that realization the candidate of the PDP is predicted to win the guber poll when the election is eventually conducted in the state.

Benue
Samuel Ortom of the PDP scored the highest number of votes of 410,576.
He was closely followed by Emmanuel Jime of the APC who polled a total number of 329,022 votes.
The margin between both Ortom and Jime is 81,554 so it was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

INEC said its decision was based on statistics it gave that 121,011 electorates were either not able to vote or election did not hold in their areas.
A rerun for the polls is expected to produce an eventual winner. Ortom is favoured to win because of the wide lead he already has.

Canceled polling units across Kano that were expected to be re-run so far

Bichi
One polling unit due to over voting.

Dawakin Kudu
One polling unit due to violence.

Doguwa
8 polling units due to violence, non use of card reader, over voting and manual voting.

Gabasawa
5 polling units due violence, over voting and card reader issues.

Gezawa
1 polling unit due to over voting.

Sumaila
3 polling units due to over voting.

Warawa
3 polling units due to over voting.

Kiru
One polling unit due to card reader issues.

Rimin Gado
8 polling units due to over voting.

Wudil
3 polling units due violence and over voting.

Tudun Wada
4 polling units due to violence.

Minjibir
10 polling units due to over voting and manual voting.

Rogo
4 polling units due to violence and over voting.

Kura
Cancellation is due to over voting.

Takai
4 polling units due to over voting.

Kano Municipal
2 polling units due to over voting and manual voting.

Nassarawa and Dala
There's debate on the exact figures of the affected polling units.

Abba Gida Gida Abba...............Red cap movement will take over kano for another 4 years

congratulations Abba K Yusuf it was a well deserved victory....lesson learnt is integrity is key,Ganduje actually performed well in terms of infrastructure but the dollar saga actually nailed him.Ganduje is dead politically even the presidency are not on his side they only used him and dumped him,when buhari came for presidential campaign he said "Kanawa ga Ganduje Ku" meaning kano people see your Ganduje,if you like vote for him

Rebellion doesn't pay Amosun and Okorocha will be licking their wounds now after doing anti party because they want to install their stooge as governors of their respective states....Turning governance into family affairs

The INEC REC has vowed to announce the true winner of the election even if it's going to cost him his life.Aba gida gida all the way........

Igbos are still learners when it comes to nigerian politics,the Yourubas vote for candidate not party,we started with AD,latter ACN,some states voted for PDP before we finally moved to APC.This is good for democracy as no body cares who is the president or what party he represent,before the Tinubu and APC era states like Ekiti,OYO and ondo were pdp controlled,unlike our iPhone brothers who close their eyes and vote out of sentiments claiming a political party belongs to them and every other party is not welcomedin their region irrespective of the personality and credibility of the candidate.Today you guys are rooting for senate president under buhari's administration...You only want to sow where you didnt reap even the northerners you claimed owned APC still have some states controlled by PDP.My IPod brother lets play politics without bitterness whoever emerges as winner in Oyo gubernatorial election is a yoruba man and the incumbent was rejected because he failed woefully......Go and change the governors of Asia,IMO and Ebonyi because they failed the masses

Akume loses Senate seat as PDP wins Benue North-


George Akume, former Governor of Benue State, has lost his bid to return to the Senate.


Akume lost the seat to Orker Jev of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the senatorial election in Benue Zone B.

Announcing the result on Wednesday, the Returning Officer for the election, Prof Nicodemus Ochani, said Akume of the APC polled 115,422 while Jev of PDP got 157,726 votes to win the contest.


With this, PDP has won all the three senatorial districts in Benue State

Kwankwasiyya is a scam! After collecting Atiku's money to mobilize rented crowd and giving him false hope...Kwankwaso is a learner

So the REC is simply telling us that there is hope for Akpabio? The people of Benue zone B are still awaiting the result of the senatorial elections from that zone fellers from the area indicates that APC leader and former governor George Akume is seriously trailing by wide margin to Oker Jev of PDP and INEC has refused to announce the result while that of zone A and C has since been announced.

chocolatelady:
Sai Baba ! But wait oooo, what happedned to the 5k given to the red cap movement in kano by Kwankwanso. I thought they said that kwankwaso has changed the political serene in kano after giving out the money to his movement so that they can fill the campaign ground. Let me say this, Atiku plus Kwankwaso ,let me add Shekarau combined together can never defeat only PMB in kano. Take that to the bank. Atiku, hope say u don ask Kwankwaso for refund from the N1 Billion u gave to him. Next level is sure. We never hear from Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Jigawa ooo.

Jigawa state results....APC 794,738 PDP 289,895....difference 504,843

Nogodye:
Iffa hear Kwankwashiya again! Movement wey don die tete in kano...PMB all the way

Kwakwasiyya is a scam the only way the movement can stand is for his followers to betray Atiku by doing anti party..Kwankwaso is not with Atiku in body and spirit his sole target is to unseat Ganduje with his Inlaw Abba Gida Gida..."Red cap no get weight for kano again"