As law abiding and responsible citizens, Lagos-based leading Nollywood actors and producers, Paul Obazele and Zack Orji, travelled to Owerri, the capital of Imo State to cast their votes for Goodluck Jonathan in the recently held presidential elections. The duo didn’t go alone, they went in the company of other top players in Nollywwod, including, […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described last Saturday’s presidential election as the most systematically rigged in Nigeria’s electoral history, warning against a repeat of such malfeasance in Tuesday’s governorship/state assembly poll. “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been boasting that it will clinch the governorship election in Lagos and elsewhere on the strength […]
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has debunked the claim by the Congress for Progressive Change that votes from the South-South and the South-East were inflated in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan during the presidential election. He said the high votes recorded from the two zones were as a result of the popularity of […]
The Coalition of 45 registered political parties on Wednesday hailed the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in last Saturday’s election and called on his co-contestants to put the outcome of the poll behind them and join the winner in moving the nation forward. Addressing newsmen in Abuja at a world […]
The United States has congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan for winning Saturday’s presidential election, saying the election represents “a positive new beginning for Nigeria”. A statement issued late on Tuesday by U. S Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton wished Jonathan well “in meeting the many challenges facing Nigeria” and in providing good governance. “On behalf of […]
FORMER military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has sent a congratulatory message to President Goodluck Jonathan on his victory in last Saturday’s presidential poll. Babangida said Jonathan’s victory had put him in a good stead to further unite Nigeria, just as he admonished the president to assemble a good team to actualise his dream of a […]
Representatives of some of the opposition parties said they refused to sign the 2011 presidential result sheets as compiled by INEC because they noticed some irregularities. The parties are Congress for Progressive Change and Action Congress of Nigeria. NAN reports that besides the ruling PDP, it was only the representatives of ACN and CPC […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that the conduct of Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections was better than those of the presidential and National Assembly polls. Before he gave the order, after collecting his Certificate of Return at INEC’s Electoral Institute in Abuja, the President suspended the Minister […]
Post-election violence swept through some Northern states on Sunday night and Monday as results of the presidential poll released by the Independent National Electoral Commission clearly showed Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the winner. States where violence flared were Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa, Katsina, Plateau, Yobe, Bauchi, Borno, Katsina and Sokoto. In states like Kano, Bauchi […]
President Goodluck Jonathan was on Monday formally declared winner of Saturday’s presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Out of the 38,209,978 total valid votes, Jonathan polled 22,495,187 votes (58.9 per cent) while his closest rival, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change came second with 12,214,853 votes or 31. 98 […]
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