Governor Ibikunle Amosun has won the race for Ogun Central Senatorial Seat. The Ogun State Governor was declared the winner of Ogun central senatorial District in the early hours of today.
He polled 88,110 votes to defeat his closest rival Solomon Sanyaolu of the PDP who polled 33,276 votes.
The result was announced by INEC’s returning officer Professor Ayinde Akanbi.
Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna central senatorial district has lost his re-election bid. Shehu lost to the ruling APC.
Recall Shehu had decamped from the ruling party to Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, after he failed to secure a ticket in APC.
In a tweet conceding defeat, Shehu wrote, “we remain proud of those who defy inducement and voted for us.Each of our vote is honestly earned and remains a mark of our honour.We got our votes not because of anyone but ourselves.We thank all men and women of principles,dignity and courage who worked from the campaigns through the elections”.
Dele Momodu has written an open letter to Dr Bukola Saraki, the Senate President who on Saturday lost his chance to remain in office. Writing on social media, the strong supporter and friend of Saraki wrote;
My dear Oloye, DR ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI, I appreciate the battles you fought for Democracy. But for you, and a few others, Nigeria would have been sentenced to a full-blown dictatorship. Because you stood, like the Rock of Gibraltar, elections and politics became full-scale war in Nigeria. In the last four years, despite your epic support for the Saints, they threw everything at you, but God kept you going, miraculously. Today, as always, I salute your doggedness. You're a General. The best is yet to come...
Tonto Dikeh is in Dubai at the moment. The actress claims she saw and unusual thing and couldn’t keep it to herself. Tonto claims she just saw an actress with her best friend’s husband and she couldn’t wish more than God to come now, lol. Above is what she wrote on her insta-story now.
The deputy president of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has been declared the winner of his Enugu West Senatorial District for the fifth consecutive time.
Mr Ekweremadu’s political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also won the two House of Representatives seats in the district.
The district has five local governments’ areas of Oji River, Aninri, Ezeagu, Awgu, and Udi.
Announcing the result at about 12:10 a.m. on Monday, the Returning Officer for the senatorial district, Douglas Nwagbo, a professor, said Mr Ekweremadu polled 86,088 ahead of his closest rival, Juliet Ibekaku-Nwaugwu of the APC who polled 15,187.
Broadway actor Billy Porter has just shut down the Oscars red carpet with a stunning 'Cinderella' velvet tuxedo dress.
The 49-year-old Kinky Boots star may not be be nominated at the 91st Annual Academy Awards but he has stolen the show in a Christian Siriano designed outfit.
The black velvet tuxedo ball gown has a full skirt and train and it all that everyone on the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles can talk about.
The designer himself was loving Billy's entrance, tweeting: "Shutting the carpet down In a Siriano velvet tuxedo gown!”
He later added how he felt about seeing Billy on the red carpet, tweeting: “What an honor it was to create this moment!” You like? Hehehe
Three female students of one of the high institutions in Ile-Ife, Osun State have been caught carrying out rituals with female pants and other materials. The three were caught while they carried the things on their heads in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and attempted to go and take their baths at a T-Junction.
Items found on them include, pants suspected to be that of their colleagues, three calabashes filled with charms, local sponge and buckets of water. When questioned why they have the items and what they were out doing in the middle of the night, they couldn’t give a reasonable reason.
The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that the Presidency is mounting pressure on the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to alter some of the results of the elections held on Saturday.
The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, also called for the upholding of results from polling units across the country, which it said were in favour of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Ologbondiyan said, “The party says it is already aware that the Buhari Presidency has been mounting pressure on the INEC and dispatching officials to change results in Rivers, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Kogi, Bauchi, Cross River, Borno, Yobe and Edo states, among others, in a frenzy to allocate fictitious figures to the defeated President Buhari.
“Pathetically, the Buhari’s presidency is also threatening the South-East state governors to change results.
“In Bauchi State, we are aware of the plots to move thumb-printed ballot papers and fabricated results from Bauchi to Dass Local Government Area to upturn the PDP’s victory in the results already delivered and announced at the polling units in the area. This is why the electoral officials have been delaying moving the results for final collation and announcement. If this plot fails, the APC plans to void the results in Dass.”
He warned that the agents of the party had the results as declared at polling units and would not accept anything to the contrary.
“President Buhari and the APC should therefore quietly come to terms with the fact that they have been defeated.
“The PDP therefore cautions INEC to respect the laws and electoral guidelines by upholding and declaring results from the polling units as expressed by Nigerians on Saturday,” he added.
The PDP also called for the release of its member, Buba Galadima. He was said to have been picked up by gunmen on Sunday. The PDP accused the Department of State Security of masterminding the kidnap; but the DSS denied the allegation by the PDP.
“We don’t know anything about Galadima. He is not with us,” the spokesman for the DSS, Mr Peter Afunanya, told our correspondent.
The National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, said the party was not happy with the alleged arrest of its member.
He said, “We as a party condemn this arrest in the strongest possible terms. Buba Galadima is a patriot. His patriotism has been previously and strongly highlighted by various Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari.
“What crime has he committed? I answer my own question and say none. Mr Galadima is constitutionally guaranteed a right of freedom of speech and freedom after the speech.
“The nation is currently boiling with the deaths caused by thugs of the All Progressives Congress. Not one of these thugs has been arrested by the DSS.
He added, “The nation was embarrassed by drone images of bullion vans laden with cash driving into the home of the national leader of the APC and no action has been taken by the law enforcement authorities. Yet a patriot and pro-democracy activist is arrested.
“We cannot be hoodwinked by the puppeteering of the DSS by the APC. It is obviously no coincidence that the APC Presidential Campaign Council called for the arrest of Mr Galadima at 12 noon today (Sunday February 24) and the arrest was duly effected by the DSS an hour later.
“This arrest is only the latest in a pattern of anti-democratic actions by the Muhammadu Buhari administration.”
President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC, through his Campaign Council has called for the immediate arrest of a Peoples Democratic Party’s chieftain, Alhaji Buba Galadima, over alleged plan to release fake presidential results, giving victory to PDP's Atiku Abubakar.
Buhari's team are insisting that Atiku has not won the election.
The Spokesperson for the council, Festus Keyamo, (SAN), in a statement on Sunday, claimed that the PDP had become devastated by the authentic results filtering out of polling units nationwide.
He said, “Our usual sources within the camp of the PDP have informed us that an emergency meeting of the main opposition party has been summoned for today somewhere in Abuja.
“Top on the agenda of the PDP is to activate the last strand of their Dubai strategies that have since collapsed like a pack of cards: they plan to release fake results of the presidential election later today (Sunday) or early Monday morning that they claim to have compiled themselves.
‘Our information is that they aim to create confusion that will lead to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar claiming victory in a day or two from today ahead of the official announcement of the results by INEC. Then, what would follow will be some carefully choreographed protests by pockets of hoodlums in some parts of the country. The ultimate aim is to curry the sympathy of our foreign friends and push us to the Venezuela situation.”
The statement added that some PDP social media agents were already posting on the Internet some states allegedly ‘won’ by the PDP.
Keyamo said, “In fact, Alhaji Buba Galadima, an official spokesperson for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has made a short video announcing PDP as the ‘winner’ of the presidential election. As an official spokesperson, he is clearly acting on behalf of Atiku and on his instruction. We, therefore call for the immediate arrest, interrogation and prosecution of Galadima in this regard. The world is watching and waiting on Atiku Abubakar to say something on the video by Galadima."
Also, the APC accused the PDP of making a provocative statement by calling on INEC to arbitrarily announce its candidate, winner of the presidential election.
The APC National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, in a statement on Sunday said the call by the PDP was an unwarranted strike against democracy and the people of Nigeria.
Issa-Onilu stated, “This call is shameful and alarming. Unwilling to wait for INEC, the constituted authority to complete its task, the PDP seeks a short cut by false and premature claims of victory. This cannot stand.
“Our nation is trying to perfect its democracy, not turn it into a mockery. Sadly, this objective is lost to the PDP. The PDP’s guiding principle is distilled to the following; because they want something, then they should get it.
“But this is not the way of democracy. Democracy means the people choose for themselves not that the PDP chooses for them.’’
Reacting, the PDP said that the APC is afraid of its own tactics which was deployed in 2015, where the APC posted election results on its website even while the then INEC Prof Jega was still collating results from across the state. The leading opposition party however insisted that it has won.
The history of Nigerian aviation can be traced back to November 1, 1925, when the first aircraft to ever land in Nigerian landed in the ancient city of Kano. 90 years ago, an aircraft belonging to the Royal Airforce (RAF) – De Havilland DH 9A – touched down Nigeria.
The air trip to Nigeria from Helwan (a town in Egypt) was led by the then Flight Lt. Coningham.
Nigerians awaited the arrival of the aircraft re-scheduled to land by 5pm. At 5.10 pm on November 1, 1925, Coningham landed the aircraft on a polo ground outside Kano’s ancient walls.
There were crowds of about 20,000 people who came to witness the first aircraft to land in Nigeria.
Vincent Orange’s book, the “Coningham: A Biography of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham”, vividly captured the expedition.
Kano residents only saw plane again ten years after the Coninghams’ departure when Imperial Airways aircraft landed during the reign of Emir Abdullahi Bayero in 1935.
Coningham who is the pilot that landed the first aircraft in Nigeria was presumed dead on January 30, 1948 when the airliner he was flying to Bermuda got missing off the coast of USA. His death remains one of the unsolved mysteries of the aviation history. His whereabouts is still not known till date.
The Peoples Democratic Party has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to declare its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the winner of the 2019 presidential election held across the country on Saturday.
PDP expressed the view that its candidate has won the election, and that INEC was only delaying the announcement to enable it falsify figures in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress’s candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari.
The leading opposition party on Sunday afternoon insisted that, “The PDP charges INEC to immediately announce results as delivered from the polling units and declare the people’s candidate, Atiku, the winner of the February 23 presidential election.”
Copying the United Nations, the European Union Commission, the US Embassy in Abuja, the UK High Commission in Nigeria and French President Emmanuel Macron, among others, PDP wrote further, “Our position is predicated on clear and verifiable results across the nation, showing that Atiku is in clear lead both in spread and total number of votes cast.”
Citing intelligence report, PDP said, “Intelligence available to us is that INEC is delaying the announcement of results following directives by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and the APC which are bent on altering the figures from the polling centres and allocate fictitious figures for President Buhari.”
Continuing, the PDP said, “Curiously, INEC server is now shut down, results are no more being transmitted and the reason is to enable the APC to inflate figures from six designated states.
“We call on international observers and election monitors to insist on a transparent process of transmission of results and the monitoring thereof.”
Indicting APC governors across the states, PDP wrote: “We already have reports of how APC governors have been making desperate efforts to tamper with the results of the elections in their respective states with the view to award conjured votes to President Buhari.
“In Kogi State, Governor Yahaya Bello has been making frantic moves to change results to suit APC’s intent and purposes as against the wishes of the people, expressly delivered at the polls.”
PDP indicted certain government officials, saying, “Nigerians already know how the Minister of Transport and the DG of the Buhari Campaign, Rotimi Amaechi, used the military to hold an INEC official in River State, Mrs. Mary Efeturi, hostage and insisted that she alters the results in favour of President Buhari.”
Warning the INEC chairman not to change the results of the presidential elections, the party said, “The PDP calls on INEC Chairman, Prof. (Mahmood) Yakubu to note that in this age of Information Communication Technology, Nigerians already have the results as delivered at the polling centers and any attempt to alter any figure will be faced with vehement resistance.”
A young lady who got high on drugs - was tied up in public for constituting public nuisance. According to Facebook user James Adesina who shared the report, the lady who acted under the influence of drugs, was tied up by security guards in the area after going on rampage and damaging some properties.
In a clip posted online, the yet-to-be identified lady can be seen laughing and making some gestures (with her friends at the background) while being talked to by the guards who tied her up.
She was left outside for quite some time to get herself before she was released to go home and 'behave'.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately announce results as delivered from the polling units and declare its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the winner of the February 23 Presidential election
It said its position is predicated on clear and verifiable results across the nation, showing that Atiku is in clear lead both in the spread and the total number of votes cast.
A statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary and Director, Media & Publicity PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, intelligence available to the party is that INEC is delaying the announcement of results following directives by the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC), which it said are bent on altering the figures from the polling centres and allocate fictitious figures for President Muhammadu Buhari, particularly in northern states.
The statement added: “Curiously, INEC server is now shut down, results are no more being transmitted and the reason is to enable the APC to inflate figures from six designated states.
“We call on international observers and election monitors to insist on a transparent process of transmission of results and the monitoring thereof.
“We already have reports of how APC governors in the northern states have been making a desperate effort to tamper with the results of the elections in their respective states with the view to award conjured votes to President Buhari.
“In Kogi state, Governor Yahaya Bello has been making frantic moves to change results to suit APC’s intent and purposes as against the wishes of the people, expressly delivered at the polls.
“Nigerians already know how the Minister of Transportation and the Director-General of the Buhari Campaign, Rotimi Amaechi, used the military to hold an INEC official in River state, Mrs Mary Efeturi, hostage and insisted that she will not be released until she alters the results in favour of President Buhari.”
The PDP called on INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to note that in this age of Information Communication Technology, Nigerians already have the results as delivered at the polling centres and any attempt to alter any figure will be faced with vehement resistance.
It further said: “In delaying the announcement of the results, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu is allowing the APC to turn him into a villain and directly pitching him against the people. He should, therefore, extricate himself from the rejected APC and be on the side of the people, by immediately announcing the results as already delivered at the polling units and declare, the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the winner.
“Anything short of this is not acceptable to Nigerians, who had already expressed their wishes and aspiration at the polls.”
Baba Suwe;s first son, Adeshola Omidina has written an open letter to Nigerians thanking them for coming to his father’s aide. Dropping the letter on social media, Adeshola wrote;
Dear Sir/Ma,
It gives me great pleasure to express the gratitude of our family to every Nigerian/Baba Suwe’s fans,
Non-Nigerians home and abroad.
Starting with my mother, His Excellency Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Ori idobale ni mo wa sir), TAMPAN President & Members, Movie Marketers, Late Barrister Aturu & his wife, Mr. & Mrs Segun Rasco, Mr. & Mrs. Whesu (Awokoya) Pittsburgh, Mr. Kola Olotu, Mr. Yomi Fabiyi, Jamaica Hospital New York, Federal Ministry of Health, Lagos University Teaching Hospital(LUTH) staff,
Nollywood Colleagues, Media Houses, Journalists, bloggers, Human Rights NGOs, clergymen and so on. Kindly pardon me if any ommission.
On behalf of Omidina family, I like to deeply thank everyone for your countless support, financially, morally and otherwise. The love shown to my father Babatunde Omidina (a.k.a Baba Suwe) is so enormous and extra-ordinary especially in the last 6days. The contributions and those still contributing to my father’s road to recovery are unimaginable and unthinkable. This is simply Pure Love.
I can see the favor and grace of God in my dad’s life. It is our prayers that in few months time, with your continued prayers and support, he will return fit, healthy again and back to the screen. He sends his deepest appreciation and will of course do personally later.
The family will never forget this unique love, care and acceptance. God bless all the hands that giveth, they SHALL NOT LACK. Our family wish everyone the best of sound health and prosperity.
With sincere humility and gratitude.
President Muhammadu Buhari spent some time at the farm in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State yesterday. Some on social media say he's preparing his retirement place, while others say he just went to check it before returning to Aso Rock for another four years.
The forces from Presidency to Police were all out against Senate president Bukola Saraki, and they eventually succeeded in denying him a return to the Senate. Consequently, he won't be returning to the upper legislative chamber having lost his reelection bid to Ibrahim Oloriegbe of the All Progressives Congress.
While Oloriegbe polled a total of 123,808, Saraki who contested under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, trailed with 68,994 votes, leaving a margin of 54,814 votes.
The results were announced at the collation center of the senatorial district in Ilorin, the state capital.
Saraki lost all the four local government areas in the senatorial district, The Cable reports.
In Ilorin south, Oloriegbe had 26,331 while Saraki secured 13,013 votes. In Ilorin east, Oloriegbe polled 30,014 votes while Saraki got 14,654. In Asa, Oloriegbe polled 15,932 while Saraki got 11,252 votes. In Ilorin west, his local government, Oloriegbe, garnered 51,531 votes ahead of Saraki who had 30,075 votes.
Like Saraki, Oloriegbe is a medical doctor. He was a member of the state assembly between 1999 and 2003. In 2011, when Saraki first contested the senatorial election, he defeated Oloriegbe who ran on the platform of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
Saraki was a member of the APC until the crisis between the executive and legislature made him return to the PDP where he spent his two terms as governor of Kwara.
He was among the aggrieved PDP members who formed nPDP and teamed up with the APC to win the 2015 general election. He sought the presidential ticket of the PDP but lost to Atiku Abubakar who later appointed him the director-general of his campaign.
Some people rushed in to inform us in my hostel that someone has been stealing pants overnight in our street. First, it wasn’t funny when I ran to my bathroom. But as soon as I remembered we have a secured fence in my hostel, I started making jest of myself.
At first, I didn’t believe it, because I’ve been a bit skeptical about those cases of some yahoo boys stealing used pants. But seeing was believing today...
Come and see how people unleashed a first class harassment on the lady.
According to Idea Flavour’s reports, a man spotted her walking around aimlessly amidst two hostels. Then, she was suspected by a man who accused her. The man asked her to show what’s in her hand and she fled. With immediate effect, he alerted some nearby passersby to help him catch the suspect.
They gave her a resounding slap and she began to confess that she’s from Ibadan and she’s on her way back already that they should forgive her.
Before I reach that incredible scene, I met them pouring petrol/fuel on her body with a match ready to disburse a lifetime “hell on earth” on her soul.
My crew asked her when she started Pant selling business and maybe it’s been so lucrative. But she kept looking at us. That alone vexed me to the extent that I wished I could unleash a hot resounding slap.
INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu has confirmed the killing of a staff of the commission on election duty in Rivers State. The victim is said to be a married woman and mother of two.
Her father, Sir Daperi Amachree wrote; 'GOOD BYE Ibisaki Amachree.Here lies my beautiful daughter Ibisaki, a post graduate degree holder, full of cheer, love and kindness and mother of two. She was shot dead yesterday by a trigger happy and jittery soldier while she was on a national assignment with INEC.
I have never arranged for the death of any youth. I hate violence and thuggery. If law enforcement agents have to kill an enemy, should it be my responsible and peaceful daughter? It is well. Only God knows why it happened. He will surely repay the wicked.'
Senate President Bukola Saraki lost in his bid to return to the Senate in Saturday’s National Assembly elections in Karate Central Senatorial District.
Mr Saraki, who contested on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, lost to Ibrahim Oloriegbe of the All Progressives Congress.
The Senate President lost all four of the local governments in his senatorial district.
The local governments, which include Asa, Ilorin East, Ilorin West and Ilorin South, were all won by Mr Oloriegbe.
Declaring the result of the elections in the district, the returning officer, Olawole Obiyemi, a professor of human kinetics education at the University of Ilorin, said Mr Saraki polled 68,994 votes.
On the other hand, the total votes garnered by Mr Oloriegbe was 123, 808.
Mr Oloriegbe was thereafter declared the senator-elect in Kwara Central Senatorial District.
