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The APC now has 16 governors, the PDP has nine, and the Labour Party and the NNPP have one each. Nigeria’s ruling party won the gubernatorial election in the northern state of Kebbi, which went for re-election due to inconclusive results in March, which the election officers said was vitiated by fraud and malpractices.
The APC now has 16 governors, the PDP has nine, and the Labour Party and the NNPP have one each. Nigeria’s ruling party won the gubernatorial election in the northern state of Kebbi, which went for re-election due to inconclusive results in March, which the election officers said was vitiated by fraud and malpractices. The re-election was conducted in another state, Adamawa, lying northeast of the West African country, where re-election had to be conducted for the same reasons, and was suspended. The returning officer alleged that he was not allowed to do his work by the local representative of the Electoral Commission (INEC).
Nigerians elected former Lagos State chief executive Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC party as the president in the general elections held on 25th February. He is due to succeed two-term incumbent Muhammadu Buhari on 29 May. But the opposition, citing fraud and irregularities, is challenging Mr. Tinubu’s victory in court, which legal experts say could be a long-drawn process.
Gubernatorial elections were held in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states on 18 March. In both Kebbi and Adamawa, the APC candidates were pitted against those of the main opposition party, the PDP. In Kebbi, the Electoral Commission’s representative Sa’idu Yusuf declared the APC candidate, Nasir Idris, the winner with 409,225 votes against his PDP rival, Aminu Bande (360,944 votes). The APC now has 16 governors, the PDP has nine, and the Labour Party and the NNPP have one each.
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In Adamawa, the local representative of the Electoral Commission usurped the role of the returning officer and declared an APC candidate, Aisha Dahiru Binani, the winner. The returning officer had postponed the collection of results from the last 10 districts to Sunday morning. But local INEC representative Nuhu Ari gathered a team of journalists before the counting resumed and declared Ms. Binani the winner, the only female gubernatorial candidate in Nigeria, and faced incumbent Governor Ahmad Fintiri of the PDP. The chaos created by Ms. Binani’s declaration of victory prompted INEC to suspend the results.
