Sentences with phrase «governorship election poll»

Though the stake is high, the state governorship election poll had been characterized by voters» apathy.

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Akwa Ibom State All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate in the April 11 gubernatorial election, Mr Umana Okon Umana, has approached the Appellate Court in Abuja on Friday, to file an appeal challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal governorship candidate in the April 11 gubernatorial election, Mr Umana Okon Umana, has approached the Appellate Court in Abuja on Friday, to file an appeal challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on telection, Mr Umana Okon Umana, has approached the Appellate Court in Abuja on Friday, to file an appeal challenging the judgment of the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on tElection Petition Tribunal on the poll.

-- okaying the Rivers gubernatorial poll, even after the Governorship Election Tribunal and the Court of Appeal had held it was a grand fraud!

Accreditation of delegates for APC Primary election for July 14 governorship poll in Ekiti State commenced around 10 am on Saturday.

Ahead of today's governorship election in Anambra State, the police also said that contrary to speculations in some quarters, they had no intention to dictate to the Independent National Electoral Commission on the conduct of the poll.

Nwoye, who said the outcome of the elections would have an impact on the November 18 governorship poll in Anambra State, vowed that the APC would resist the alleged rigging plot.

Further assuring the people of the state of security, Habila warned that the police would not permit the use of security personnel as guards by very important personalities at polling units during the governorship election.

Goodluck Jonathan barely gave it a look; between 2015 and now, with Muhammadu Buhari in power, there has been no noticeable improvement in the bye - elections, reruns and governorship polls that have been conducted.

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.

All is set for today's primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State for the February 2012 governorship poll, which is holding in...

The All Progressives Congress candidate for the Edo governorship election, Godwin Obaseki has won the poll which was conducted on Saturday.

These include the Presidential election as well as the elections into the National Assembly and the governorship polls.

By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio THE rerun governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Council and in 101 polling units across six...

The leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) in South West has rejected call by governorship aspirants jostling for party's governorship ticket for July 14 poll, that APC should adopt direct primary election system.

The election tribunals and Court of Appeal ordered the re-runs, after voiding the returns for most of the Rivers legislative seats, federal and state; before the Supreme Court, in a bizarre verdict, endorsed the governorship poll, held the same day, and under the same bloody conditions, as the state legislative elections.

The Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Edo governorship poll, Pastor Andrew Ize - Iyamu won the election at the polling unit where the APC national chairman boss voted.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, on Wednesday lost to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in his polling unit in the September 28 governorship election.

Guber Polls: Bayelsans Steadfastness has prevailed - Fayose Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, declared on Monday that the Bayelsa State Governor and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Seriake Dickson and the millions of the good people of the state have shown steadfastness with PDP during the state's governorship election, which was, declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, noting that with the action which exemplified peoples» power against Abuja political oppressors, Bayelsans can rightly be described as «worthy heroes of democracy».

The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the September 28 governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize - Iyamu, on Wednesday filed a petition at election petitions tribunal in Benin, challenging the outcome of the poll.

«It is the fact that the court below, though differently constituted confirmed on appeal elections in respect of House of Assembly seats in Osisioma LGA and Isiala North LGA which took place simultaneously with the Abia Governorship same day, time, in the same polling units and where voters were accredited using the same voters; registers and card readers.»

«If Nuhu Ribadu is yet to face the reality that EFCC is a Federal Government agency and not a personal estate of anybody eight years after, I find it compelling to remind him, otherwise one day he would wake up to blame me for his defeat in the 2011 presidential election and even his pathetic outing in the 2015 governorship election in Adamawa state despite the slush funds deployed to ensure his victory at the polls.»

Speaking on the Report, the Reviewer, Dr Otive Igbuzor said the document was a research study carried out to examine the accessibility of PWDs to polling units and elections materials during the 2016 governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states.

Commenting on the inconclusive governorship election in Bayelsa, the PDP image maker, called on INEC to conclude the poll and similar elections within 30 days.

He said, «There's a provision for adopting candidates for elections either for presidential, governorship or local government chairmanship poll.

Guber Polls: Bayelsans Steadfastness has prevailed - Fayose Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, declared on Monday that the Bayelsa State Governor and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Seriake Dickson and the millions of the good people of the state have shown steadfastness with PDP during the state's governorship election, which was, declared inconclusive by -LSB-...]

A Coalition of Independent National Electoral Commission Accredited Domestic Observer Groups for Ondo State 2016 governorship election has condemned calls for postponement of the poll from some quarters.

He attributed the decision to the paradigm shift in the evolving electoral system, saying «the polling procedure in this governorship election requires a prospective voter to cast his or her vote immediately after being accredited».

Ahead of the November 26 governorship election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State has stated that the report of a recent opinion poll on...

It was also learnt that the November 18 governorship poll in Anambra State, and the 2019 general elections, are other major issues that were discussed at the meeting.

The Chairman announced that during the second quarter of the exercise, CVR would be moved to polling unit level for Ekiti and Osun states that are having governorship elections this year as was done in Anambra state which had governorship election last November.

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, says he has no doubt that the APC would defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the governorship poll.

Yakubu disclosed that the commission would release the election notice for Ekiti governorship poll on April 4 and that of Osun on June 23.

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.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on Sunday declared Rotimi Akeredolu of the APC winner of the Saturday's governorship election in the state after polling 244,842 votes to beat his closest rival, Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who garnered 150, 380 votes, while Mr Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, followed with 126, 889 votes.

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said that the refusal of some political party agents to sign the Edo governorship election result sheet did not invalidate the poll.

A controversial new Section 25 introduced into the Act changed the sequence of elections by making the National Assembly elections to come first, followed by the governorship and state House of Assembly elections, while the presidential poll will now come last.

The Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has called on Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to stop a private television station from organizing its planned election debate ahead of the November 18 governorship poll.