Kano state government has imposed dawn to dusk curfew with a view to avoid breakdown of law and order following tensions generated from the collation of results of the governorship and state Assembly elections.
The state commissioner for information and internal affairs, Muhammad Garba, made the announcement in a statement issued Monday morning.
He said the decision was to prevent hoodlums from causing chaos in the already tensed situation.
The commissioner called on people in the state to remain indoors as security agents would not spare anyone or group bent on causing trouble.
Meanwhile, The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has declared Abba Kabir Yusuf of New Nigerian Peoples Party as winner of the recent concluded Kano Governorship Election with 1, 019, 602 votes.
Hon Ahmed Mirwa Lawan, Speaker of the Yobe State House of Assembly, has been deposed by Lawan Musa, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Nguru II Constituency.
The election was hotly contested, with Musa winning with 6,648 votes and Lawan receiving 6,466 votes.
Dr. Habib Muhammad, the election’s Returning Officer, announced the results, revealing that other candidates from the ADC, NNPP, and APM parties received 3,023 and 14 votes, respectively.
Hon Ahmed Mirwa Lawan has been a member of the House since 2003 when he was elected on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, has ruled out the behaviour of thugs in the just concluded governorship and state assembly elections.
It states that there will be a thorough review of the results as some of its staff were abducted, harassed, intimidated, hospitalized and in one case killed.
This was made know to the media by the national Commissioner on information and voter education Festus Okoye in Abuja at the national situation room.
national Commissioner on information and voter education- Festus Okoye
Recall that the Commission had promised Nigerians an improved process in the state assembly elections following issues that occured from the Presidential and National Assembly elections held on 25th February 2023.
In keeping with this promise, Okoye said the commission had meetings with our Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) and service providers, and the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) to review processes and procedures to ensure more optimal delivery of personnel and materials to various locations.
He also added that for difficult and unforeseen circumstances outside the Commission’s control, they did their best to respond, especially where processes were disrupted by actors as such diabolical behaviour did not only affect citizens but also impacted on the Commission’s officials and processes.
Nevertheless, INEC express concerns over its inability to deploy to enable citizens to vote where there were disruption of the process the Commission assures Nigerians that they are keeping their eyes on those areas and would not hesitate to remobilize where the outcome of the election is affected.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, as the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state for scoring the highest votes during the polls.
Sule, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress and seeking re-election for a second term in office, secured 347, 209 votes in the contest with his closest challenger, David Ombugadu of the Peoples Democratic Party who scored 283, 016 votes while Abdullahi Maidoya of the New Nigeria People’s Party scored 11,726 votes.
The election results were collated and announced in Lafia on Monday by the INEC’s Returning Officer in Nasarawa State, Prof. Ishaya Tanko.
Tanko, who is the Vice-Chancellor, of the University of Jos, Plateau state, added that the Social Democratic Party candidate, Mohammed Mustapha, scored 9,003 votes.
The Returning Officer further narrated that the total number of registered voters in the state was 1,899,244.
He added that the accredited voters in the state were 668,978 but the total votes cast were 660,805 while the rejected votes were 6,934.
“Having satisfied the requirements and having received the total votes of 347,209 by the APC with the candidate, Sule Audu Alhaji is hereby returned and declared the winner of the governorship election in Nasarawa State,” Prof. Tanko said.
The All Progressive congress, in Adamawa have Drawn the attention of the INEC Chairman, Security Agencies on Attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party to disrupt final Result Collation in the state.
ADAMAWA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION – EXECUTIVE BRIGANDAGE MUST NOT PREVAIL AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE
We draw urgent attention of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and our security services to massive thuggery, violence, intimidation and undue pressure by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) calculated to disrupt final collation and announcement of result of the Governorship election in Adamawa State.
Election results show a clear and decisive victory for Senator Aishatu Dahiru (Binani), the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate. Faced with imminent and certain prospect of loss in the election, thugs and political actors led by incumbent Governor, and Candidate of the PDP, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, have unleashed heavily armed thugs to disrupt further collation of result and subvert the will of Adamawa people as expressed at the polls. The Governor is reported to have torn result sheets at the collation centre in a show of unprecedented impunity and executive brigandage.
We are well aware of the massive pressure on INEC and law enforcement authorities to cave in to the inordinate demands of the PDP to subvert final collation and announcement of result. However, we are supremely confident that INEC and our law enforcement authorities will stand firm and conclude the election process in the State as required by law.
The result of election in Fufore Local Government Area of the state must not be tampered with as Senator Aishatu Dahiru (Binani) holds a clear, unassailable lead, only awaiting final collation and declaration by INEC.
Nigeria is on the cusp of a major democratic record with the election and emergence of the first female Governor of a State in the country. We urge all well meaning Nigerians to stand together to protect and uphold this historic victory for women and our country.
SIGNED: Barr. Felix Morka National Publicity Secretary All Progressives Congress (APC)
Former Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha; National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Samuel Anyanwu; the state Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Festus Onyekwulisi, have criticised the state Assembly election in the 27 councils of the state.
Ihedioha, in a statement issued, yesterday, and signed by his media aide, Chibuike Onyeukwu, described the election as “rape of democracy in the state. He accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of subverting democracy in the state Assembly poll, alleging collaboration with security operatives to cart away electoral materials.
The statement reads: “The horrible incident at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Aboh Mbaise Council, where security agencies, in connivance with compromised personnel of the Commission, carted away electoral materials can best be described as a rape of democracy.
“This is, no doubt, a state sponsored wickedness and determination to execute an evil plot. “Verifiable records show that PDP swept the polls across the state, but agents of darkness have, again, denied the people their constitutional right to choose their leaders.
“We wish to call on the Chairman of the electoral Commission and heads of various security agencies to urgently halt this descent to a failed state, and conclude this exercise fairly and creditably by allowing votes to count.”
Similarly, the PDP’s national scribe, in a statement issued, yesterday, by his Special Adviser (Media), Ikenna Onuoha, said: “National Secretary of the PDP, Anyanwu, urges INEC to release authentic results of March 18 state Assembly election to reflect how Imo people voted.
“He maintains that should INEC fail to do this, it will be concluded that officials of the Commission were deliberately compromised with agents of the ruling party to subvert the mandate of the people.”
In another development, the State Chairman of LP, Onyekwulisi, accused security operatives and others of disallowing agents of the party to be part of collation and other required activities, alleging: “Information reaching our Situation Room has it that the APC led Sole Administrators (SOLADs), in collaboration with their security personnel and touts, have refused LP agents access into the 27 councils’ collation centres across the state.
Imo State House of Assembly results as it stands.
“We call on INEC, the police, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and other relevant agencies to take note and call them to order. This is because we shall do everything possible to resist them from subverting the will of the people, which they expressed through the ballots.”
Dismissing the allegations, the APC, in a statement issued, yesterday, described the PDP as a “rotten, rejected and forsaken” party, struggling to accept defeat.
MEANWHILE, the PDP state Assembly candidate for Aboh Mbaise Council, Princewill Amuchie, has urged INEC to uphold justice by declaring him the authentic winner of Saturday’s poll in the area. The Guardian gathered that INEC had, yesterday, declared the candidate of APC, Edward Obinna, winner of the election amidst tight security.
But speaking to journalists in Owerri, Amuchie insisted he won the election after garnering majority votes in all the polling units in the area. He said he would explore available legal means to recover the mandate willingly giving to him by his constituents if the electoral umpire failed to yield to his demand.
Governor Sanwo Olu retains office as he wins 19 out of 20 LGA’s in Lagos. The incumbent governor defeated Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party, winning with 762,134 votes. Vivour trailed behind in second place with 312,329 votes while PDP followed in third place with 62,449 votes
Mr. Chisom (Surname not confirmed), the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Coordinator for Ahoada-West Local Council in Rivers State, was assassinated.
Chisom, the APC Ward 10 leader in the area, was shot while attempting to prevent suspected hoodlums dressed in police camouflage from hijacking election materials earlier yesterday.
Sogbeye Eli, the Rivers APC 2023 Campaign Council spokesman, confirmed the incident to The Guardian late last night, saying the miscreants opened fire on him and shot him dead immediately.
“Yes, it is true, our Campaign Coordinator for Ahoada-West Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chisom, was shot dead as he attempted to stop miscreants dressed in police uniforms from stealing election materials,” Eli said. They killed him by opening fire on him.
“The slain Chisom Lennard of Ubeta community in Ahoada West LGA of Rivers State was the Ward 10 Leader of the APC and Tonye Cole Campaign Coordinator for Ahoada West Local Council until his death today at the governorship and state House of Assembly elections,” he added.
Police in katsina have confirmed the killing of 2 suspected terrorists by the Civilian Joint Task Force, CJTF, after they snatched election materials at Tsabawa community between Batsari-Kurfi road.
Spokesman of the police, Superintendent Gambo Isah who made the confirmation in a telephone conversation said, four of the terrorists launched the attack on the electoral officers but two of them were killed.
He added that, following the attack, the Civilian JTF on patrol engaged the terrorists in a gun duel after the electoral materials were snatched from them.
Isah said, due to the superior firepower by the Civilian JTF’s, two of the terrorists were gunned down, 2 AK 47 rifles were also recovered as well as all the electoral materials recovered and handed back to the INEC officials.
He also confirmed that elections were later held in the area after normalcy was returned after all.
Thugs, have abducted officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Imo State including the electoral officer of Isu Local Government Area of Imo State, Achibie Ogbonne.
They also abducted the returning officer and some collation officers during Saturday’s state house of assembly exercise in the area.
According to the INEC spokesperson in Imo state Chinenye Chijioke-Osuji, the election went smoothly and peacefully until the collation time when unscrupulous elements invaded the local government council – allegedly working with the local government area council – and violently found their way into the premises with tear gas and guns and drove everyone away.
She added that all the INEC officials were beaten up and the office was destroyed as all the windows, roof, chairs, and tables were broken while some of the staff escaped.
The INEC spokesperson said the development has been reported to security operatives for possible action.
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