Sunday, 24 February 2019

Updated: Results from polling units

As voting yesterday, the Independent and National Electoral Commission, INEC, swooped into action by collating and announcing polling units results from different parts of the country.

These results according to PREMIUM TIMES are live updates of the official results as announced by INEC officials at the various polling units.

Atiku wins all voting points at Unit 007 Pyakasa in FCT


The presidential candidate for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has won in the eight voting points at Unit 007 Pyakas, Lugbe, FCT
Mr Sadiqu Abdulrazak, the Presiding Officer for the unit, said Abubakar scored 1,205 votes while President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) got 173 votes.

Breaking News: Thugs storm INEC office, burn ballot boxes


Alleged political thugs, Sunday stormed the office of the Independent National Electoral office in Oriade local government area, Osun state, and set all the ballot boxes on fire.

Reports have it that they opened fire to

#NigeriaDecides: SEE RESULTS: Buhari wins Atiku in Bola Ahmed Tinubu's polling unit


President Muhammadu Buhari emerged victorious at the polling unit of National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the ongoing elections.
Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State casted his vote at Unit 047, Alausa, Ikeja

#NigeriaDecides: Army arrests 15 ‘political thugs’ in Ikebiri 1, Southern Ijaw LGA, Bayelsa State


Fifteen suspected political thugs have been arrested by the Nigerian army in the Ikebiri 1, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

The army said the hoodlums planned to disrupt the presidential and national assembly elections in the region. Jonah Danjuma, a spokesperson of the Nigeria Army, noted that the arrest of the thugs by

INEC to fix new dates for elections in some part of Rivers


Following the pockets of violence recorded in different parts of the Rivers State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to postpone the elections in this warring areas and a new date is to be announced for the

Saturday, 23 February 2019

Results: Atiku defeats Buhari with 17 votes inside Aso Rock, APC wins at Dambazau’s polling unit in Kano


The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, defeated President Muhammadu Buhari at the polling center of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. There are two polling units in the presidential villa including PU 021 and PU 022.

The PDP scored a total of 1,030 in the two units at the center while the APC got a total

Elections : PDP agent rejects Abaji results over mixed up result sheets


The PDP agent on Saturday in Abaji, FCT, rejected Presidential and National Assembly results over allegations that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) mixed up the result sheets.

Mr Abubakar Ibrahim, who spoke, said that INEC officials at Abaji Local Government mixed up the presidential and National Assembly sheets.

Breaking: INEC postpones elections in Anambra, Rivers, Lagos, others


The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced the postponement of the elections in some parts of Lagos, Rivers and Anambra States following disruption of the exercise due to violence.

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral

#NigeriaDecides: President Buhari wins his polling unit in Daura with 523 votes while PDP gets 3 Votes

President Buhari has won his own polling unit in Daura, Katsina State.
President Buhari, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, polled 523 votes to beat the Peoples Democratic Party, which scored 3 votes. 

#Nigeriadecides: President Buhari wins in Atiku’s polling unit


President Buhari has won the presidential election in Ajiya polling unit 12, in Yola, the Adamawa State capital where his main contender and PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar voted earlier today.
According to the results collated by the

#NigeriaDecides2019: NYSC Member Killed by APC Military Thugs In Bonny, Rivers State



According to reports, Nysc Members in Bonny feared dead. Sporadic shootings, stray bullet pieced through a Bosom feeding mother, others receiving treatments from various degrees of injuries.

Another voter alleged that ballot papers have already been thumb printed at the polling unit:

Elections 2019: Card reader malfunction immediately after VP Osinbajo casts vote


Card readers deployed to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's polling unit malfunctioned just minutes after the VP voted

The development prevented other voters including ANN presidential candidate Fela Durotoye from voting

After frantic phone calls, just one card reader was finally able to work. There was serious drama at Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's polling unit on Saturday,