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Presidential Election Petition Tribunal: APC, PDP boast of victory today

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<b>The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja will on Wednesday (today) deliver judgment in the case instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the outcome of the February 23, 2019 presidential election.</b><br>
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The petitioners asked the five-man tribunal, led by Justice Mohammed Garba, to nullify President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the poll and either declare them the winner or order the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a rerun.<br>
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A senior member of the petitioners’ legal team, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), confirmed to newsmen that the hearing notice for the judgment was served on lawyers representing the parties to the case on Tuesday.<br>

Nigeria Decides Politics Presidential Election Petition Tribunal: APC, PDP boast of victory today

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Femi Gbajabiamila emerges Speaker of 9th House Representatives

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Members of the House of
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The choice candidate of the
leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 281 votes to defeat
Mohammed Bago, still of the APC, who had 76 votes, on Tuesday. <o:p></o:p>A total of 358 House of Representatives members cast their
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Ahmed Idris elected unopposed as Deputy Speaker, House of Reps

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Latest News in Nigeria Nigeria Decides Ahmed Idris elected unopposed as Deputy Speaker, House of Reps

Hon. Ahmed Idris Wase from Plateau State has been elected unopposed as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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It wasn’t a win or lose contest… I challenged Omo-Agege to make a statement -Ekweremadu

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Ike Ekweremadu, senator
representing Enugu west, says he ran for office of deputy senate president to
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Speaking with journalists after
losing the contest for the office of deputy senate president to Ovie Omo-Agege,
senator representing Delta central, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator
said he only made up his mind to run this morning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Omo-Agege polled 68 votes to
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“We need to exonerate ourselves.
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Nigeria’s Rep. members elect new Speaker, Deputy

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All is now set for members-elect
of the 9th House of Representatives to elect presiding officers to pilot their
affairs for the next four years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A total of 360 members are
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The race for the speakership
would be a straight fight between former house leader Femi Gbajabiamila (Lagos,
APC) and Umar Bago (Niger, APC).<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is however another
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How PDP member-elect disobeyed party, nominated Gbajabiamila for speaker House of Reps

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Member-elect for Onitcha
North/Onitcha South federal constituency of Anambra State under the umbrella of
the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Lynda Chuba Ikpeazu, at the floor of
the House of Representatives, seconded the nomination of Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila
as the Speaker of the 9th House.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This was brazenly in total
disagreement with the decision of her party, the PDP, which had in the early
hours of Tuesday, concluded on the aspiration of Hon. Umar Bago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the ongoing inauguration of
the 9th National Assembly, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC) elected to represent Bebeji/Kiru federal constituency, Hon. Jubril
Abdulmumini, had nominated Gbajabiamila as Speaker.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Also nominated for the
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Ovie Omo-Agege emerge as Deputy Senate President

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The Senator representing Delta
Central Senatorial district of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated his
closest opponent Ike Ekweremadu a former Deputy Senate President and member of
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Ahmed Lawan emerges Senate President of 9th National Assembly

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The Senator representing Yobe
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Mr Lawan polled 79 votes to beat
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After a secret ballot voting, the
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Court judgment: We’ll do the needful on Okorocha’s Certificate of Return – INEC

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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Friday said it will do the needful regarding the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja which ordered it to issue a Certificate of Return to the immediate past Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha as the Senator-elect for Imo West Senatorial District.<br>
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Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voters Education Committee, INEC, in a statement, said the commission had been drawn to the judgement of the Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by the Hon. Justice Okon Abang, directing the Commission to issue a Certificate of Return to Okorocha.<br>
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He said the commission was also aware of and had been served with the order of a High Court of Imo State, presided over by Hon. Justice Njemanze, directing the Commission not to issue a Certificate of Return to any of the candidates who contested the Imo West Senatorial District election.<br>

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INEC declares PDP winner of Zamfara elections

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The Independent National
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He also said the party won all
but one of the elective positions in the state. Kabiru Hassan of the National
Rescue Movement (NRM) won the election in Maru south state constituency.<o:p></o:p></div>
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62 Nigerian women won elections in 2019 - INEC

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Latest News in Nigeria Nigeria Decides 62 Nigerian women won elections in 2019 - INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday said only 62 women out of the 2,970 who contested for different political offi...

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Atiku to INEC: I got my figures from your server

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has defended his claim that he got the results of the February 23 presidential election as tendered in his petition from the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<br>
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Atiku was responding to INEC’s reply to the PDP candidate petition to the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT), in which he claimed the poll’s figures he submitted with his petition were authentic.<br>
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The electoral umpire declared incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the Akll Progressives Congress (INEC) as the winner of the February 23 election, having polled 15,191,847 votes Atiku’s 11,262,978.<br>
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In his 139-page petition before the PEPT, Atiku stated that from the data in INEC’s server, the true, actual and correct results showed that he (Atiku) secured a total of 18,356,732 votes to against Buhari’s 16,741,430 votes.<br>

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Atiku invites Microsoft, IBM experts as witnesses to show he defeated Buhari by 1.6 million votes

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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, is set to call Microsoft, IBM and Oracle experts to authenticate his claim that the servers belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission showed that he defeated President Muhammadu Buhari by over 1.6 million votes.<br>
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Atiku also identified the server where the results are kept as INEC_PRES_RSLT_SRV2019 and its unique Mac address as 94-57-A5-DC-64-B9 with Microsoft Product ID 00252-70000-0000-AA535.<br>
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2019 Elections: Aggrieved politicians file 736 petitions at tribunal

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Nigeria Decides Politics 2019 Elections: Aggrieved politicians file 736 petitions at tribunal

Aggrieved politicians have so far filed a total of 736 petitions before the various election tribunals established over outcomes of the ...

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Wike wins Rivers governorship election, dedicates victory to election violence victims

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Latest News in Nigeria Nigeria Decides Wike wins Rivers governorship election, dedicates victory to election violence victims

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday declared the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, winner of the governorship el...

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BREAKING: Rivers Guber: INEC suspends collation of results

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The Independent National
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Obo Effanga, the Resident
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Rivers Guber: Wike leads in 8 of 10 LGAs announced

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The Independent National
Electoral Commission in Rivers State has begun the collation of results of the
suspended Governorship and House of Assembly elections results in the state.</div>
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Electoral and Returning Officers
for the seventeen Local Government Areas where elections have been concluded
are all at the INEC Secretariat in Port Harcourt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Rivers State Police command
also made good its promise to cordon off GRA Junction up to the INEC premises
with armoured vehicles. This includes Water Lines Junction.<o:p></o:p></div>
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National Commissioner in charge
of Bayelsa, Rivers and Edo ,May Agbamuche-Mbu, INEC REC in Rivers State, Obo
Effangha, INEC REC in Ebonyi and INEC REC in Niger state, Sam Ebu, the DSS and
Assistant Director, Abdulkadir, and Commissioner of Police CP Usman Belel, are
among top officials overseeing the collation exercise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Amaechi loses LGA to Wike as INEC resumes collation of Rivers results

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The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has resumed collation of results for the
governorship poll in Rivers state.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On March 10, INEC had suspended
all electoral processes in the state as a result of violence and widespread
disruption of collation of results.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The commission later announced
that the results of 17 local government areas were intact, and it rescheduled
collation for April 2 to April 5. INEC had also scheduled supplementary
election in the remaining six local government areas for April 13.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So far, results from about three
local government areas have been announced at the collation centre in Port
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