While Senator Joshua Dariye won PlateauCentral Senatorial District with 189,150 votes, General Jeremiah Useni polled 126,154 votes to emerge the winner of the Senate seat for southern senatorial zone and GovernorJonah Jang scored 234,455 to emerge winner for the northern zone
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In a statement jointly issued by US Secretary of State John Kerry and his British counterpart, Philip Hammond, they frowned at any attempt to distort the results of the March 28 presidential election in a manner that will not reflect the will of the Nigerian people
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, however announced that he would proceed on break to allow results from more states to get to the centre
He defeated the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan
The results from the 16 local government areas of the state, collated on Monday morning and announced by the Returning Officer, Prof. Musbau Akanji, showed Buhari polled 302,146 votes to defeat Jonathan who garnered 132,602 votes
The Returning Officer for Abia State, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba, declared Jonathan the winner on Monday
In the official figures for the election released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, Jonathan won in seven out of the 13 local government areas of the state
The challenges highlighted by the Mission included the Card Reader malfunctioning in some polling stations, especially in the finger print identification of voters resulting in the resort to the use of manual accreditation of voters; insufficient and/or non-availability of electoral materials like ballot papers, indelible ink and incident forms in some polling stations; late arrival of electoral officials and materials; and delay in the voting process
He said: “The results were cancelled in a polling unit in Kibiya Local Government Area and Jodade Polling Unit in Kunci Local Government Area
Obuah said: “Rivers State is a traditional PDP State and even if the elections are conducted a million times, the PDP will win here. Was the APC expecting Rivers people to vote for another Presidential candidate other than President Goodluck Jonathan? That must be a wishful thinking
The APC said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed: “The information that we have received since we issued our last statement is to the effect that the Administration is holding clandestine meetings with security chiefs and others with the sole aim of altering or scuttling the results, which they consider to be highly embarrassing and unpalatable, using malleable RECs
The Co-ordinator of Women’s Pro-Climate Federation for Buhari + Osinbajo Presidency 2015, Ekaette Enitan Sanusi, who made the allegation, declared that the election in the oil-bearing state “is a shame”
NAN also reports that the results in the two wards reached the collation centre at the council secretariat at about 7am and 7:30am respectively, on Sunday
A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who visited the collation centre for Michika/Madagali Federal Constituency at Ribadu Square in Yola, said as at 9.30am, officials were still waiting for results from some wards
According to him, elections are ongoing in 21 polling units across Shasha/Akowonjo, Egbeda/Alimosho, Olofin, Igando/Egan, Ipaja North, Ipaja South, Ayobo/Ijan Village and Abule Egba/Meiran/Alagbado Registration Areas of Alimosho Local Government Area
He said: “The two polling units affected in Maiduguri are Gwange 11 and Yerwa Secondary School and the five units in Jere are Kaka-Yazdaram, Biriri, Ajari, Kittla and Gongolang-Lawani
At one of the polling units in Riyom Local Government Area, women, youths and the aged were seen showing much enthusiasm and being keen to participate in the process
The security agencies, comprising the police, the Department Security Services, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Nigeria Immigration Service and others attached to the centre, demanded to have a copy of the results, forcing the officials to reproduce extra copies
Malfunctioning card readers also resulted in process delays in many parts of the various states as voters had to be given manual accreditations after verifying their names in the voters’ register
General Gowon, who was at the Asokoro District polling unit 11 to observe proceedings, however, met no official of the Independent National Electoral Commission on ground as scheduled