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Over 2650 delegates from 16 local government areas of the state would participate in the election holding at Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, Ado - Ekiti.33 aspirants including two former governors of the state; Chief Segun Oni and Dr. Kayode Fayemi jostling for APC Governorship ticket.Fillers from the venue of the primaries indicated Fayemi or Oni might emerge winner based on comments from some of the delegates.The exercise being conducted by Governor Tanko Al - makura led committee is going on peaceful as Police has provided adequate security inside and outside the venue.
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Buhari urged INEC to improve on areas of logistics as the nation braces for coming governorship elections and the main general elections in 2019.
A mild drama occurred on Friday day at the premises of St Anthony Anglican Church, Igboukwu, Aguata Local Government Area, Anambra State when the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Chris Ngige jokingly told the candidate of the Labour Party, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah that he will defeat him in the election.
He said: «For instance, in the last Governorship election in Anambra State, Card Readers were deployed to each of the 5,339 Polling Units and Voting Points spread across the 21 Local Government Areas of the State.
These additions came essentially from CVR in 2015 and 2016 in States where we conducted off - season Governorship elections namely Bayelsa, Kogi, Edo and Ondo as well as the FTC Area Council elections.
Awe had been in exile after the State Government refiled a criminal case against him and two others for the alleged murder of Mrs Julianah Adewumi and one Mr Ayo Jeje at Erinjiyan Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government Area prior to the 2014 governorship election.
INEC declares Bayelsa Guber election inconclusive Following the cancellation of elections in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Bayelsa State governorship elections held on Saturday, December 5, inconclusive.
It will be recalled that in declaring Otti the winner of the election, the Court of Appeal nullified the governorship election in the local government areas stated above.
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has said that adequate security logistics and manpower have been strategically deployed to Bayelsa State in a bid to achieve a conducive electioneering atmosphere ahead of governorship re-run election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state on Saturday.
INEC informed the Supreme Court that another panel of the Court of Appeal upheld elections in respect of House of Assembly seats in Osisioma Local Government Area and Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area, w hich took place on the same day the governorship election was conducted.
The Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on Saturday 16th February 2019 while Governorship, State Assembly and Area Council elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will hold two weeks later on Saturday 2nd March 2019.
He insisted that apart from Idemili - North and some other areas, the November 16 governorship elections in Anambra should be cancelled entirely.
Osunbor, who defected to the All Progressives Congress at the 2015 general elections, disclosed this at APC's campaign rally in Iruekpen, Esan West Local Government Area, for the September 10 governorship election in the state.
The results for 17 of the 18 local government areas in Edo State have been collated for the governorship election with APC's Godwin Obaseki leading.
Soyebi said that the commission decided that, in view of the Anambra State governorship election scheduled for November 17, 2017, the CVR will be decentralised to the Registration Area (Ward) level from 10th to 16th August 2017.
On February 23, 2012, the Ikang, Esighi, Antigha Ene Eyo and Edihi Idim Ikot Eyi clans of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River State obtained a judgment of the Federal High Court in Calabar directing INEC to conduct governorship election in the 10 newly - created wards.
Justice John Okoro, who read the lead judgment of the seven - man panel, also held that the Court of Appeal was wrong to compel INEC to conduct the 2012 governorship election in 10 wards created in the Bakassi Local Government Area by the Cross River State Government.
Bello, who hails from Agassa, Okene Local Government Area, was declared winner of the governorship election, following the outcome of the Dec. 5 supplementary poll in 91 polling units in the state.
Ahead of the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State, the Independent National Electoral Commission has begun the distribution of sensitive materials to the 21 local government areas of the state.