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Monday Okpebholo, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has emerged victorious in the Edo State governorship election held on Saturday. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said Okpebholo, having satisfied all conditions and scored the highest number of votes, won the election. Okpebholo secured a total of 291,667 votes. His closest rival, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), garnered 247,655 votes. Olumide Akpata, representing the Labour Party (LP), finished third, receiving a total of 22,763 votes. Meanwhile, the PDP in Edo has appealed to the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to review the results collated…

The PDP Governors’ Forum Has charged INEC to uphold its integrity by announcing the results that reflect the choice Edolites had made in Saturday’s gubernatorial election. This is as the Governors’ Forum yualso refuted accusations from the APC, which alleged interference by PDP governors in INEC’s duties. In a statement released by the Forum’s chairman, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, who also serves as the governor of Bauchi State, the Forum clarified that Governor Fintiri merely referenced results that were already publicly accessible on the INEC IREV portal, aiming to prevent any form of manipulation. “We are satisfied that our colleagues…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has backed Governor Ahmed Fintiri of Adamawa State that results at the various polling Units show their candidate, Asue Ighodalo, leading the Edo State governorship election conducted on Saturday. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said this in Abuja, on Sunday. Ologunagba said, “The PDP asserts that the rush, venom and hauling of insults with which the All Progressives Congress (APC) attacked Governor Fintiri only confirms APC’s violent desperation to cover its manipulations and steal the mandate freely given to Dr. Asue Ighodalo by the people of Edo State as reflected in…

The Department of State Service (DSS) has confirm freeing about six persons they detained after they participated in the recent protest over hunger and hardship in the country. According to security sources, who spoke to Vanguard, the six persons were freed last Thursday in Kaduna on the orders of the Director General of the DSS, Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi. The source, who is familar with the release of the suspects, told Vanguard on Sunday that three other suspects are however being processed by the agency for prosecution having been found to have committed criminal offences during the protest. The top source…

The 6 Division, Nigerian Army, confirm that its operatives have neutralised two armed vandals involved in illegal oil bunkering during a gun duel and recovered two AK-47 rifles while 18 suspects were arrested across various states in the Niger Delta region. Also, the Army said the troops destroyed 13 illegal refining sites, seven boats, uncovered eight illegal connection points and impounded over 60,000 litres of stolen products across the region. The acting Deputy Director, 6 Division Army Public Relations, Lit-Col. Jonah Danjuma disclosed this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Sunday. Danjuma said the…

John Stones scored deep in injury time as Manchester City salvaged a 2-2 draw with 10-man Arsenalon Sunday to remain top of the Premier League table after a rip-roaring battle against their bitter title rivals. The draw in what was more of a slugfest than a chess match left Pep Guardiola’s men with 13 points after five matches, while Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are fourth with 11. Erling Haaland put City ahead in the ninth minute when Savinho threaded a beautiful through ball that the big Norwegian sprinted onto then slotted past David Raya. Ricardo Calafiori cancelled out Haaland’s goal with…

In what is a clean sweep, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the chairmanship positions in Saturday’s local government area election in Enugu State. Professor Christian Ngwu, Chairman of the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC), announced the results and praised the commission for conducting a free and fair election. He described the election as the most transparent yet, noting that the results were meticulously collated and analysed to prevent any errors. “We carefully collated and analysed the results to ensure that there were no mistakes,” he said. However, none of the candidates from opposition parties, who contested…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has briefly stopped the collation of results from the local government areas as the 16 collated and announced so far shows the All Progressives Congress (APC) leading the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with 48,595 votes. In the sixteen LGAs announced so far, the APC has garnered 244,549 votes as against PDP’s 195,954, showing the commanding lead of the 48,595 votes. This is as a PDP agent in the collation Centre has continually rejected all the LGAs announced so far, accusing the electoral impaired of manufacturing figures to give to the main opposition party in…

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has explained his reason for visiting the Independent National Electoral Commission collation centre in Benin City, the state capital, in the early of today. The governor, it would be recalled, was on the INEC premises early on Sunday morning, around 2 am, and was there until he was escorted outside by the police led by Deputy Inspector General Frank Mba. Members of the All Progressives Congress, led by Monday Okpebholo’s running mate, Dennis Idahosa, led protesters to demand the exit of Obaseki from the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission at about 3.30…

There was tension at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Sunday, forcing INEC to postpone the final collation of results for the Edo State governorship election to 11 a.m. INEC made the announcement in the early hours of Sunday at its headquarters in Benin, the Edo State capital, which also serves as the final collation centre. The announcement came after the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, held a four-hour meeting with INEC officials and the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Frank Mba, at the INEC headquarters. Mr Mba is leading the police team…