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The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the collation of the Adamawa State governorship election. The commission announced this in a statement issued on Sunday. Hudu Ari, the Resident Electoral Commission (REC), had declared Senator Aisha Dahiru, aka Binani, as winner of the election under controversial circumstances. But Barr. Festus Okoye, National Commissioner, Information & Voter Education, overruled him and ordered suspension of the collation. “The attention of the Commission has been drawn to a purported declaration of winner in the Adamawa Governorship election by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) even when the process has clearly not been concluded.”…

There was mild drama on Sunday as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the winner of the Adamawa governorship election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for the state, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, made the declaration on Sunday after the supplementary election that was held on Saturday in a drama-filled announcement which was done under strange circumstances. During the collation exercise, Yunusa walked into the collation centre on Sunday morning when collation was suspended on Saturday, The Whistler reports. Without reading the scores secured by the various candidates, he announce that “APC…

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, was involved in a ghastly motor accident on the Abuja-Lokoja highway. THE WHISPERER gathered that Akpoti-Uduaghan was involved in a fatal accident on Friday while she was on her way to Abuja and was to return to Lokoja for the Sunday governorship primary. According to an eyewitness, the vehicle carrying the Kogi Central Senatorial candidate of the PDP in the National Assembly election hit a curb on the road, causing injury to the passengers in the car. The eyewitness told Nigerian Tribune that she was rushed to the Federal Teaching…

According to him, the level of reception accorded Obi by Nigerians in the diaspora makes the APC feel Obi is still campaigning. ISAAC FAYOSE, brother to former governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) is having sleepless nights despite defeating the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi. According to him, the level of reception accorded Obi by Nigerians in the diaspora makes the APC feel Obi is still campaigning. Reacting to a video of Obi being received by Nigerians abroad, Fayose claimed that APC is wondering why a “loser” would be accorded such treatment. “They…

The Director General of the World Trade Organization, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is billed to deliver a Keynote address, Friday, April 15, as the Abia Governor-Elect Dr. Alex Otti inaugurates his Transition Council in Aba. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala's address will be followed with the inauguration of the Council before the plenary session would commence. Following the full confirmation and official acceptance of all appointments, the Council's Secretariat issued a full list of the Transition Council members. They are: 1. Mr. Victor Onyenkpa ( Chairman) 2. Mrs. Ifueko Omogui Okauru (Co-chairman) 3. Ms. Arunma Oteh 4. Professor Ndubuisi Ekekwe 5. Mr Uche…