Read Full Details Why PDP And APC Members Kill Themselves Yesterday In Edo

THERE was pandemonium

Thursday in Okpella, Estako East Local

Government area of Edo State as

supporters of the Peoples Democratic

Party, PDP clashed with those of the All

Progressives Congress, APC.

INEC Announces Yahaya Bello As The Winner Of The Kogi Governorship Poll.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Alh. Yahaya Bello as the winner of the Kogi governorship poll.

APC polled 247,752 votes to defeat PDP who came a strong second with 204,877 votes. In today’s supplementary poll, APC polled 6885 votes to beat PDP which polled 5363 votes.

Declaring the results in Lokoja, the Chief Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Emmanuel Kucha, who is the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, said having fulfilled all legal requirements, Alh. Yahaya Bello is declared winner of the election and Kogi Governor-Elect.

Kucha declared: “That Yahaya Bello, having polled the highest number of votes and satisfied the law is hereby returned elected”.

Kogi APC Candidate Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Has Vowed To Do All He Can To Unite Aggrieved Parties.

The Governorship candidate of the All progressive Congress in the ongoing governorship election in Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has vowed to do all he can to unite aggrieved parties.

Bello told journalists in Lokoja today that he would not be a sectional governor. Rather, he said he would be a governor for all, irrespective of ethnic or political affiliation.

He said, “I may be from Kogi Central, but that does not mean I will favour the place at the expense of other areas, I am for the development of Kogi State and that will be my focus.

“I do not believe in power shift as some people are advocating. The development of the state as a whole will be my priority. I will ensure that sectional division among our people is taken care of.”

He called on the people of the state to troop out to cast their votes in the supplementary election to bring the election to a conclusion.

Bayelsa Guber: A Woman Shot Down In Oporoma By Stray Bullet.

A woman was killed on Saturday as voters went to the polls in tight security to elect a new governor in Bayelsa, officials said.
Bayelsa is the home state of former president Goodluck Jonathan, where incumbent governor Seriake Dickson is running against former governor Timipre Sylva for another four-year term in office.

The woman was shot dead in Oporoma, a town at least 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s oil hub which is the capital of neighbouring Rivers state, in one of a series of shooting attacks.
The governor’s spokesman Daniel Iwariso-Markson said a woman had been killed in Oporoma, indicating there had also been shooting attacks in Ekeremor, Nembe town and Brass.
“She was hit by bullets fired during the shooting,” he said, without giving details.
Dickson said the attacks targeted his supporters.

KOGI SUPPLEMENTARY ELECTION RECORDS LOW TURNOUT OF REGISTERED VOTERS.

A low voter turnout was recorded in the Kogi governorship supplementary election in Ankpa and Igalamela/Odolu local government areas of the state on Saturday, as most of the registered voters failed to turn up for accreditation.

The low turnout was visible in Ankpa Local Government Area where results from nine polling units with 6,018 registered voters were cancelled in the Nov.21, election.
Further not more than 200 voters were accredited at the affected polling units as at 11:30 a.m.
Although polling officers in various units visited confirmed that electoral materials had arrived the polling units before 8:00 a.m., the officers were seen less busy.

Bayelsa Guber: Dickson Sponsored Attack On Our Supporters - APC

 Dickson Sponsored Attack On Our Supporters - APC
The Director, Media and Publicity, Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation, Chief Nathan Egba, of the All Progressives Congress in today’s governorship election, has accused the state governor, Seriake Dickson, of sponsoring violent attacks on members and supporters of the APC across the state.

He alleged that Dickson imported over 5,000 thugs from Delta and Rivers states to cause violence in the election, adding that the thugs have been terrorising people in riverine communities in the state, scaring them away from the polling units with gunshots.
“The wave of attack has confirmed our fears and alarm earlier raised that Governor Dickson was the one planning to cause violence.
“The affected communities are Oporoma in Southern Ijaw LGA, where the APC State Chairman, Tiwei Orunimighe, hails from; Brass LGA, home of the APC governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva; Ekeremor LGA, home of the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri; and Nembe LGA.