The Independent National Electoral Commission has resumed the collation of results of the governorship election in Kogi State.

 

INEC Returning Officer for the election and Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Umar, announced the suspension of the exercise on Sunday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.

 

Collation officers for the remaining two local governments of Ibaji and Lokoja have also turned in their results.

 

INEC has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, David Lyon as winner of governorship election in Bayelsa State.

INEC Returning Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Faraday Orunmuwese, announced the result early today.

He said the APC candidate polled a total of 352,552 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Duoye Diri, who scored 143,172 votes.

The Supreme Court has ruled that President Muhammadu Buhari was “eminently qualified” to contest the February 23 presidential election.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, prepared the full judgment of the apex court which is being read by Justice John Okoro.

The full judgment delivered today was to provide explanations for the apex court’s summary decision of October 30 which dismissed the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging the victory of Buhari at the February 23 presidential poll.

The court affirmed the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal which held that Buhari possessed the requisite educational qualification to contest the poll.

It held that the Nigerian Constitution only required a candidate contesting the presidential election to be educated up to secondary education even when the candidate does not possess the certificate.

The Supreme Court has ruled that President Muhammadu Buhari was “eminently qualified” to contest the February 23 presidential election.

 

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, prepared the full judgment of the apex court which is being read by Justice John Okoro.

 

The full judgment delivered today was to provide explanations for the apex court’s summary decision of October 30 which dismissed the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging the victory of Buhari at the February 23 presidential poll.

 

The court affirmed the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal which held that Buhari possessed the requisite educational qualification to contest the poll.

 

It held that the Nigerian Constitution only required a candidate contesting the presidential election to be educated up to secondary education even when the candidate does not possess the certificate.

Ahead of the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, former President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned violence that had characterized campaigns in the two states.

 

Jonathan, who handed over to Buhari in 2015, described signals coming from the two states as disturbing.

 

He expressed sadness that people were already being killed when election had not begun; adding that the only way out to thuggery and violence was electronic voting.

 

Jonathan spoke in Port Harcourt during the presentation of a book authored by a former Deputy Governor of Rivers State,  Sir Gabriel Toby.