Senatorial and Federal House of Representatives candidates of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State have all emerged winners in Saturday’s National Assembly election.

The victory was confirmed in a statement by the State’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Abayomi Salami.

Fasuyi Cyril Olusegun polled a total of 54, 224 votes to win the Ekiti North Senatorial District election, followed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP’s  Ayeni Funso who garnered 39, 976 votes. Aiyegbusi Akinloye Oladele of the Social Democratic Party’s trailed with 1,739 votes.

In the Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Bamidele Michael Opeyemi emerged winner with a total of 69, 351 votes, defeating the candidate of the PDP, Ajijola Lateefa Oladimeji, who polled a total of 28, 181 ballots.

The candidate of the Social Democratic Party Arowolo Olusesan David came third with 15, 092 votes.

Adaramodu Oluyemi Raphael was elected in the Ekiti South Senatorial election with a total of 63, 189 votes ahead of Olujimi Abiodun Christine of the PDP, who polled 36, 191 votes.

For the Federal House of Representatives election, Rotimi Akindele Oluwaseun won the Ikole/Oye Ekiti Federal Constituency, while Bamidele Olufemi Richard was declared winner in Emure/Gbonyi/Ekiti East Federal Constituency election.

In Ijero/Ekiti West/Efon Federal Constituency, Omoyele Abiodun Francis emerged as the winner and in Ido/Osi, Moba Ilejemeje Federal Constituency, Kolawole Davidson Akinlayo was declared elected.

Oluwafemi Victor Fatoba won in Ado Ekiti/Ifelodun Federal Constituency, while in Ekiti South West/Ikere/Ise-Orun, Ojuawo Rufus Adeniyi emerged as the winnner.

Professor Salami appreciated all the good people of Ekiti state, the Traditional Rulers and all members of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, ICCES, for their cooperation towards “achieving another peaceful and successful election in the  State.”

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Election: INEC declares winner of Kwara Central Senatorial District

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Mallam Saliu  Mustapha of the All Progressives Congress, APC as  the winner of the Kwara Central Senatorial District election held on Saturday.

Mustapha secured 109,823 votes to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, a former Minister of Sports who polled 69,202 votes.

The Collation/ Returning Officer for Kwara Central Senatorial District, Professor Salih Abubakar of the English Department , University of Ilorin made the declaration at the INEC Collation Center, Ilorin.

“That Mustapha Saliu  of APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law, is hereby declared the winner,” Professor Abubakar declared to cheers from APC supporters.

“The fifty year old winner of the Senatorial election is the Founder, Saliu Mustapha Foundation, a businessman, Philantropist and the Turaki of Ilorin Emirate.”

He has been in the All Progressives Congress since 2013.

Mustapha had also contested for the National Championship of the APC but later ‘stepped down’ from the race which eventually led to the victory of the incumbent National Chairman of the party, Senator Adamu Abdullah.

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Religious and traditional leaders have called on Nigerians to be calm as INEC  set for the announcement of election results.

“The two institutions also plead with the aspirants and their followers across the country to accept Election results in good faith for peace and stability in the country.”

While appealing to the entire citizens of the country to unite and make the country a better place.

The Directors of Interfaith Mediation Centre, Nurayn Ashafa and James Movel Wuye made the call during an interview with journalists in Kaduna.

According to the directors they called on Nigerians to remain calm and live in harmony.

“let’s unite and save our nation from avoidable anarchy in the spirit of common humanity.”

“We call on all and sundry to eschew all forms of violence emanating from outcome of these election results and embrace each other in a peaceful atmosphere.”

Ashafa and James emphasized on the need for all Nigerians to equally avoid all forms of “Jubilation or protests that can infringe on the right of others.” 

While emphasising onstressing indiscriminate killings and destruction happening in Kano and other states during election is condemnable and sacrilegious to religions and values.

They urged the government to immediately arrest the situation, and bring respite to all the affected  communities across the nation.

May peace prevail in Nigeria. “Long live the federal republic of Nigeria!” The Directors concluded.

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Collation of results of the Presidential election is ongoing in Bauchi and Adamawa States.

Bauchi State INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Muhammad Nura announced this while declaring open the result collation centre.

He noted that the collation centre was declared open until the final announcement of the results of the 2023 presidential and the National Assembly.

He advised political party agents to conduct themselves in an orderly manner towards the success of the exercise.

While setting certain ground rules for the collation of elections results, the presidential election returning officer Professor Abdulkarim Tanko Muhammad from ATBU Bauchi, advised political parties to only draw their figures from INEC.

Also, in Adamawa State, collation process  commence with seven local government out of twenty one local government in the state.

The returning officers of the remaining other local government are expected to bring their results.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will resume collation of Presidential results in Niger State on Monday.

The Collation Officer for Niger State, Professor Cei Alawa stated this in Minna, the State capital.

The collection officer said “so far, they have results
from Ten available Local governments, that is 40%.”

The ten local government are: Wushishi, Edati, Rafi, Gbako, Katcha, Gurara, Paikoro,Bosso, Lavun and Mokwa.

The total number of Local governments in Niger State is Twenty five.

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The Borno State Collation Officer and Vice Chancellor of Federal University Wukari, Professor Jude Rabo, has announced that collation will continue on Monday, 27th of February 2023 at 10am local time.

Out of the 27 Local Government Areas LGAs of the state, only 3; Magumeri, Kaga and Mafa LGA turned in their results.

The collation process started late at 4pm local time on Sunday instead of 1pm as scheduled.

The delay was caused by the absence of various party’s representatives.

Result of Gubio LGA was returned due to the differences between the number of accredited voters and the number of total votes cast.

The collation officer asked for a reconciliation of the result before it would be accepted and announced.

Although there were challenges in transmitting the results through the INEC result Viewing Portal, IREVs, some election observers present at the centre commended the process, saying the results being read are based on what happened at the LGA level.

An observer, Mu’azu Abubakar Sadiq said “some of the issues we have observed is with the IREVs, we have not seen the result being uploaded at the polling units which have been read here at the collation centres. We have seen the inability of the polling officers to upload the results at the polling unit as mentioned in the guideline by INEC.”

Mohammed Bukar Kolo, an official of the National Orientation Agency lauded the effort of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

According to him, being the first time of using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS and IREVs, the challenges faced were expected as the process was still a work in progress.

“The general conduct of the election was peaceful. Although there were challenges with the BVAS, INEC intervened and took precautionary measures. Where voting started late because of challenges with the BVAS, INEC extended it to the next day. In anything you are starting new, there are always challenges,” Bukar Kolo explained.

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