(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar has won the presidential election in Kaduna State. Atiku swept the polls in Kaduna with 554,360 votes, beating his closest rival, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who polled 399,293 votes. In the election the Labour Party candidate, Mr Peter Obi polled 294,494 votes. Below […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy, has been in the spotlight on social media after the singer gave reasons for his silence regarding the elections. The African Examiner writes that in an instagram post on Monday, the singer stated that he doesn’t have any candidate he believes in. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has emerged winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Kebbi with 285,175 votes. The State Collation Officer, Prof. Usman Saidu, while presenting the result in Birnin Kebbi said the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu polled 248,088 votes. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has called for the cancellation of Saturday’s presidential election as the exercise did not pass the integrity test. The African Examiner recalls that Obasanjo had previously endorsed the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, as his preferred candidate for the February election. However, the results announced […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pastor Dayo Ekong, Labour Party (LP) Chairperson in Lagos State has said the party would still contest the Presidential and National Assembly election results in the court in spite of the party’s victory. Ekong spoke on Monday at the end of the state’s collation of the Presidential election in Lagos State. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has defeated the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu and Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar in Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in Cross River State. The State Collation Officer, Prof Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, announced the result at the Independent National Electoral […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lionel Messi won The Best FIFA men’s player prize for 2022 on Monday on the back of his World Cup triumph with Argentina and Spain’s Alexia Putellas retained the women’s award at a ceremony in Paris. Messi beat his Paris Saint-Germain teammate, and World Cup final rival, Kylian Mbappe to the men’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state Labour Party LP governorship flag bearer in the 2023 election Barrister . Chijioke Edeoga, condemned in its entirety the recent murder of the party’s Senatorial Candidate for Enugu East, Chief Oyibo Chukwu, describing it as barbaric and most devastating. Speaking with Newsmen at the Enugu residence of the deceased […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nollywood actress, Eniola Badmus, has come under severe criticism on social media after she distributed what appeared to be swearing-in fabric on her Instagram account. The African Examiner writes that Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the presidential election was held on Saturday and Nigerians are […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ndudi Elumelu, minority leader of the house of representatives, has lost his seat in the lower legislative chamber. Kenneth Ibe, the returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), disclosed this on Monday as he read the result for Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency in Delta state. Elumelu, a member of the Peoples […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has appreciated Nigerians for coming out in large numbers to vote in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections. Mr Dele Alake, the Special Adviser, Media and Communication, APC PCC said this at a news conference on Monday in Abuja. Alake said that Saturday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, has opened up on the rumored attacks of Igbo traders in Lagos. The African Examiner writes that there have been rumors that thugs were attacking the businesses of Igbos in Lagos after the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), announced that Peter Obi, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, the winner of the February 25 presidential election in Akwa Ibom State. According to the results announced on Monday by the INEC Returning Officer in the state, Prof Emmanuel Adagio, the PDP candidate polled a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has won the presidential election in his state, Adamawa. The former vice president polled 417,611, while his closest rival in the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, got 182,881, with the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, coming a distant third with 105,648 votes […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has lost the senatorial election to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Titus Zam. Zam was a Special Adviser on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to Ortom until the governor defected to Peoples Democratic Party in 2018 Zam, a strong disciple of the former governor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Nyesom Wike has denied allegations that he moved around to intimidate and cause disruption during the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday. In a statement by the State Commissioner for Information, Mr Chris Finebone, Wike said the accusation is derived only from the wicked imagination of failed evil doers. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has defeated his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu in Lagos State. Obi polled 582,454 votes to defeat the former Lagos State governor who scored 572,606 votes.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state and people’s Democratic party PDP Senatorial Candidate for Enugu North District, has lost to the Labour party LP Senatorial Candidate, Barr. Okey Ezea, who polled a total of 101, 430. Ugwuanyi, who is rounding off his second term of four years as governor of Enugu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has won the February 25 presidential election in Gombe State. He polled 319,123 in the 11 local government areas (LGAs) of the state as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Gombe State Collation Officer, Prof Maimuna Waziri, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar is leading in his home state of Adamawa after sweeping the 12 local government areas (LGAs) announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). As of 08:ooam on Monday, the former Vice President is leading with over 110,000 votes […]
