2023 election
26 Feb
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said technical challenges with its system were responsible for the delay in uploading the presidential election results to its Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
26 Feb
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has won Ekiti State with 201,494 defeating his closest rival Alhaji Abubakar Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who scored 89, 554.
26 Feb
YIAGA Africa said the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) deployed in Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly polls in Nigeria functioned properly in 88 per cent of the polling units it monitored across the country. There are 176,606 polling units nationwide.
26 Feb
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Tinubu, has won the presidential election in Ekiti State. Tinubu won in all 16 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Ekiti State to defeat his closest rivals, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. Tinubu scored a total of 201,486 votes…
25 Feb
A team of operatives from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who were on duty monitoring the presidential and national assembly elections, were attacked on Saturday, February 25, 2023, by political thugs near the chief’s palace in Bwari Area council of the Federal Capital Territory.
25 Feb
Disruption of the voting process and carting away of ballot boxes were, on Saturday, recorded in some polling units in Surulere Local Council of Lagos State.
25 Feb
The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed, has lost his polling unit to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The total number of accredited voters in polling unit 021, located in Tudun Wada ward, Zaria LGA, Kaduna state, was 277. The PDP secured 102 votes to win the polling…
25 Feb
The Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabi’u Kwankwaso, has declared he is confident of victory.
25 Feb
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, has postponed elections in 141 polling units in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Yakubu, while briefing journalists at the collation centre in Abuja, stated that the electoral process was disrupted in Wards 4, 6, 8, and 14, adding that "40 out of 141 polling units have materials intact.”…
25 Feb
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu has won in the polling unit of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who endorsed Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate for the election. At Unit 2, Ward 11, Olushomi compound, Totoro – Sokori area of Abeokuta North LG of Ogun State, Tinubu polled 56, while Obi followed…
25 Feb
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has delivered his Ward I, Polling Unit 14, Egunrege, Ikenne, Ogun State for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Osinbajo voted in his Ikenne country home, Ikenne for the first time after his unit was transferred from Lagos State. At the polling unit, APC polled 33 votes for the presidency, 39 votes…
25 Feb
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader and former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba could not exercise his franchise after repeated failures of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine deployed by the INEC to accredit him.