Late arrival of election materials and malfunctions of Card readers have marred Presidential and National Assembly elections in some local government areas of Bayelsa.
Author: The Eagle Online
The agent of the Peoples Democratic Party assigned to President Muhammadu Buhari’s polling unit 003, Kofar Baru III (A and B) Daura, Katsina State, disappeared from the unit shortly before the commencement of the counting of votes.
Harry Kane scored on return from injury for Tottenham but they fell to a surprise 1-2 defeat at Burnley, which severely dented their English Premier League title hopes on Saturday.
Great Ogboru, Delta state governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, on Saturday said that President Muhammadu Buhari has done well in office and deserves a second term.
The police in Lagos have arrested four persons in connection with the disruption of voting and destruction of voting materials in Okota, Okota in Oshodi/Isolo council area of Lagos State.
Sorting and counting of votes have commenced at Otuoke Otazi play ground and other units in Ward 13 in Ogbia Local Government Area of Baylsa after voting ended by 3.00 p.m.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described as fake, the social media report that he voted manually at his Polling Unit 006 in Oro, Irepodun Local Government in Kwara South, after the card reader failed to authenticate him.
The police at a polling unit 009 Karu, near Abuja, arrested nine suspected hoodlums for being in possession of knives while the Presidential and National Assembly elections were in progress on Saturday.
Tinubu made his position known to newsmen shortly after casting his vote in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections
Voting in the ongoing Presidential and National Assembly in going on peacefully in Sokoto State with large turnout of voters.
Dr. Cyril Omorogbe, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Delta State, has blamed the delay in commencement of voting in some parts of the state on late arrival of result sheets.
Eyewitnesses, who were at different polling units at Ago Palace Way and Okota, said members of OPC successfully scuttled the exercise, forcing voters to scamper for safety.
The Peoples Democratic Party agent killed in Abonema area of Rivers State allegedly by men in Nigerian Army uniform has been identified as Thywill Dabotubo.
Charles Udoh, the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, has confirmed the abduction of Iniobong Ekong, the Senior Special Adviser on Security Matters to Governor Udom Emmanuel.
In a statement on Saturday, Colonel Timothy Antigha, the Chief of Military Public Information of the MNJTF, said the attack took place at around Dorou, west of Damasak, along the Kamadougou River.
The vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, has described the Independent National Electoral Commission’s processes for the presidential and national assembly elections as clumsy.
There was an impressive turnout of voters in some parts of Kwara State on Saturday as voters besieged voting units to exercise their franchise in the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Some of the passengers who arrived the Airport from countries like the United Arab Emirates, United States of America, United Kingdom and South Africa among others could not immediately find means of transportation to their final destinations.
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of National Diaspora Commission, on Saturday admonished Nigerian youths not to allow anyone to use them for violence during the voting processes and at the collation centres.
Voting materials did not arrive on schedule at various polling units in Umuahia and Ohuhu in the Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia.