02/23/19

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The Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, failed to hold his polling unit in Yola, Adamawa state on Saturday as he lost it to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The official count of ballots at Ajiya unit 02 in Gwadabawa Ward of Yola North Local Government Area gave Atiku 167 votes, while Buhari got 186 votes, out of the 365 votes cast at the centre.
The Assistant Presiding Officer, Mr Abdulrasheed Mohammed, who announced the results, said a total of 365 votes were cast for the presidential election at the unit.
Similarly, the Senatorial candidate and House of Representatives candidates of the APC defeated their PDP counterparts at the unit.
Aishatu Dahiru the senatorial candidate of APC, got 185 votes to defeat Mohammed Chubado of PDP who got 120 votes, while APC House of Representative candidate scored 145 votes to defeat his PDP counterpart who got 121 votes.
At Lamido’s Palace polling unit 010, Atiku also lost to Buhari.
He polled 138 votes, while Buhari got 228 votes, according to INEC presiding officer Idris Yunusa.
The results are not surprising to political observers. President Buhari won Adamawa in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. In 2007, Atiku was on the ballot for ACN, and he still lost the state to Buhari.
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The police in Lagos have arrested four persons in connection with the disruption of voting and destruction of voting materials in Okota, Okota in Oshodi/Isolo council area of Lagos State.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Zubairu Muazu, made the disclosure during a visit to the affected polling units.
Muazu was in company with an Assistant Inspector-General of Police monitoring elections in Lagos State, Mr David Folawiyo.
Muazu said that the suspects would soon be charged with disrupting elections and damage to election materials.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that hoodlums had set ablaze some ballot boxes at Polling Unit 18 located at the junction of Ohafia/Ago Palace Way, Okota.
The incident occurred midway into voting at the booth, causing voters and INEC ad-hoc staff to run for safety.
The hoodlums also disrupted voting at Polling Unit 23 located on Baba-Ewe Street/Ago Place Way.
NAN gathered that a group of boys in tricycles and motorcycles stormed Polling Unit 18  and  few other polling  units and attempted to force voters to vote for a particular party.
NAN leant that the group fled when a team of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command arrived at the scene.
SARS had shot into the air.
However, the hoodlums returned when the police left. They attempted  unsuccessfully to snatch the boxes, and then burnt some.
They also disrupted voting at Polling Units 035 and 036 located at  Adeneken Street/Alhaji Olusesi Street Junction  and Adeneken Street/ Ago Palace Way,  respectively.
Although the ad-hoc staff and some voters returned later at the polling booths, voting did not continue until the time of this report – 3.50p.m.
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President Muhammadu Buhari defeated his major challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at the polling unit of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital.
Obasanjo who had openly supported the candidacy of Atiku was however unable to deliver his polling unit for the PDP.
While the All Progressives Congress (APC) secured 87 votes in the presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got just 18 votes.
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The African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ogun State on Friday asked the Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Prof Abdulganiyu Raji to produce 6,053 missing ballot papers for the House of Representatives election in Imeko – Afon local government area of the state.

In a petition addressed to Raji, the party officials alleged that out of 62,853 ballot papers meant for election in the area, 6,053 ballot papers are missing.

The petition was jointly signed by ADC candidate for Yewa North/Imeko-Afon Federal Constituency, Jimoh Aremu Olaifa, ADC Chairman in the LG, Kayode Elegbede and the party’s agent, Ben Ibikunle.

They expressed surprise, however, that the same 62,853 ballot papers meant for Presidential and Senatorial in the council were complete.

The petitioners asked the REC to produce the missing ballots “immediately to safeguard the credibility of this election and nip in the bud ongoing speculation that can threaten law and order in the local government.”

The petition partly reads “Records from our agents at the Ogun State INEC office showed that a total of 62,853 ballot papers were released from the state office for Imeko-Afon LG.

“However, at the Imeko-Afon INEC office, only 56,790 ballot papers was physically sighted and counted by our agent, agents of other political parties and security personnel leaving a shortage of 6,053 ballots papers.

“Interestingly, the same number of 62,843 ballot papers released for the Presidential and Senatorial elections was physically sighted and counted by all concerned at the INEC office, Imeko Afon.”

When contacted, the Head of Voters Education and Publicity for INEC in the state, Mrs Adenike Tadese, confirmed that there was shortfall of ballot papers in the council, but said there is no cause for alarm.

“The carton was never tampered with, it was when they got there (Local Government) that they realised that some ballot papers were missing.

“The Electoral Officer had already held stakeholders’ meeting to inform them of what transpired.

“So, there is no shady deal about that. We have already requested for the shortfall, which will be given to us. So, there is no problem about it.”
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Police Officers of the Delta State Police Command, led by the Commissioner, Adeyinka B. Adeleke, have intercepted a white Hilux with 128 pieces of explosives and five pieces of electric detonators.

The dangerous weapons were recovered inside the back compartment of the Hilux along Ughelli-Patani Road in Delta State on Friday.



Occupants of the vehicle, who refused to stop at a police checkpoint, were pursued until they swerved the vehicle into the bush before jumping out and escaping.

The vehicle and the weapons inside it have been taken to the headquarters of the Delta State Police Command in Asaba and handed over to the Explosives and Ordinance Department.
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