Tag: presidential election
Election: Jonathan leads West African elders to Senegal
he statement named Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, former Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office…
PEPC: INEC fails to open defence of Obi’s petition against Tinubu
INEC, is the first respondent in the petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) against its declaration…
I prayed for Tinubu’s victory in presidential election – Umahi
Umahi said that he did not hide his supplications to God that Tinubu and all the APC candidates should win…
2023 presidency: OUK Movement vows to buy form for Orji Kalu
The group stressed that they have mobilised funds to purchase the presidential nomination form for Kalu should APC micro zone…
Algeria set December for presidential election
Algeria’s Interim President, Abdelkader Bensalah, has set Dec. 12 as the date for the country’s delayed presidential polls in an…
Algeria’s July 4 Presidential election postponed indefinitely
Algeria’s constitutional council scrapped a presidential election planned for July 4 citing a lack of candidates, prolonging a period of…
Presidential Election: Accept defeat, Lanre-Razak tells Atiku
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief Lanre Razak has assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari’s second tenure…
Social programmes boost Buhari’s re-election – Nahanga
A Benue-based businessman, Mr Terlumun Nahanga, said social programmes initiated by the present administration aided the re-election of President Muhammadu…
YIAGA AFRICA verifies election results
YIAGA AFRICA, a civil society organisation, on Wednesday, verified the Presidential elections results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission…
Fani-Kayode tells Atiku to reject election results, order civil disobedience
Lanre Babalola Former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode has asked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku…
PDP rejects results of yet-to-be-announced presidential election
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected results of the Presidential Elections from Nasarawa State, saying the ruling All Progressives…
Atiku defeats Buhari in FCT
Final results of the FCT presidential election showed that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar…
Final Result: Buhari wins in Osun
Finally, and this is official, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the presidential election in Osun State. At the…
I will win today, says Buhari as he voted with Aisha in Daura
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday morning reaffirmed his confidence in winning the presidential election. Buhari told newsmen shortly after voting…
Only God can stop Feb. 23 elections, Yakubu tells the world
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says “only an Act of God can stop the…
Presidential Election: Nigerian Army vows to deal with trouble makers
The Nigerian Army has vowed to deal decisively with anyone planning to disrupt the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections,…
2019: Senator Abubakar Sodangi tips Buhari to win
Senator Abubakar Sodangi, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa state, has tipped President Muhammadu Buhari to…
INEC postpones Presidential election by one week
The Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to shift Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections till next week 23 February.
Foreign observers laud INEC’s preparations for presidential poll in Kano
A Group of foreign observers from South Africa, Pan Africa Womans Project which arrived in Kano to monitor the general…
Presidential poll: 30,000 policemen, others deployed in Lagos
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Zubairu Muazu has deployed 30,000 personnel, comprising the police and other law enforcement…
Presidential election: Be peaceful, orderly, Ambode urges Lagosians
With barely 48 hours to the much anticipated Presidential and National Assembly elections across the country, Lagos State Governor, Mr.…
Presidential election kicks off in Madagascar
Madagascar kicked off its first round of the presidential election on Wednesday to select their future leader for the next…
Presidential Election: Voting begins in Cameroon
Voting started early in Cameroon on Sunday in crucial presidential polls being held against to decide the faith of 95-year-old…
2019: Dankwambo solicits support for presidential election
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State has solicited the support of Nigerians for his candidature for presidency in 2019 general…
DR Congo opposition leader Bemba excluded from presidential election
The Democratic Republic of Congo Supreme Court has ordered that opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba be excluded from December’s presidential election…
Congolese president, Kabila will not stand for re-election
Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila will not stand in December’s presidential election, a spokesman said on Wednesday, announcing…
Afghanistan to hold presidential election in April 2019
Afghanistan will hold presidential election on April 20, 2019, six months after parliamentary and provincial council polls, the Country’s Electoral…
Madagascar to hold Presidential Election in November
Madagascar will hold the first round of presidential elections in November with the second round due in December, Prime Minister,…
Egyptian abroad commence voting for presidential elections
Egyptians abroad began voting on Friday, 10 days before polls open at home in a presidential election that President AbdelFattah…
50% of Sierra Leone’s Presidential election result released
The National Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone on Saturday released part of the result of the presidential election held in…