NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) commenced the 2023 general elections at exactly 8:30 am amid tight security on Saturday, February 25, 2023.
Nigerians are voting from a list of eighteen (18) Presidential candidates and four thousand, two hundred and twenty-three (4,223) National Assembly candidates, who are contesting for four hundred and sixty-nine (469) federal legislative positions.
No fewer than eighteen (18) political parties are participating in the 2023 general elections, however, some would not be fielding candidates for the position of president. This is less than the 91 political parties that participated in the 2019 general elections.
According to the figures recently released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), there are currently 93,469,008 Registered Voters but 87,209,007 voters out of the 93,469,008 registered voters have collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and would be expected to vote in the 2023 general elections compared to 84,004,084 in the 2019 general elections.
The main contenders in terms of political parties are the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the Labour Party, LP, and of course, the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the ruling APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is flying the flag of the PDP, former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi is the candidate of the LP, while Rabiu Kwankwaso is the NNPP standard bearer.
In the build-up to the elections, Newsonline Nigeria reports that Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), have popped up clearly as top contenders for the office of the president.
Regardless, whoever emerges the winner of today’s contest will be sworn in on 29 May for a four-year term to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari whose second term in office lapses on that day.
On the other hand, over 4,000 candidates are standing for elections into the two chambers of the National Assembly. While about 1,100 are gunning for 108 out of the 109 seats in the Senate, a total of 3,057 candidates are contesting for the 360 seats in the House of Representatives. The election will not hold in Enugu East Senatorial District until 11 March because of Wednesday’s murder of the candidate of the Labour Party, Oyibo Chukwu.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Ekiti State has announced the final result of the presidential election held in the country on Saturday.
INEC state Collation Officer and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State, Professor Akeem Lasisi, announced the result at the state Collation Centre in Ado-Ekiti after the collation officers from the 16 council areas presented their results one after the other.
He explained that out of the 18 registered political parties that took part in the exercise, APC got the highest number of votes with 201,494 votes.
The PDP came second with 89,554 votes, while Labour Party polled 11,397 votes, as New Nigerian Peoples’ Party secured 264 votes.
Professor Lasisi said the total number of vote cast was 314,478, while over 6,000 were rejected.
The INEC State Collation Officer said Ekiti had 986,777 registered voters out of which 315,058 were accredited for the election.
On his part, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Ayobami Salami, thanked all the stakeholders for their support, which led to the peaceful conduct of the exercise.
All the party agents at the state Collation Centre signed the result sheets and collected one copy each.
Below are the result from the 16 local government area as announced by INEC:
ILEJEMEJE
APC- 4,599
LP-97
PDP- 2662
NNPP- 3
ISE/ORUN
APC- 11,415
LP- 497
PDP- 2,734
NNPP- 10
EFON
APC-5,873
LP- 125
PDP- 2,521
NNPP-3
GBONYIN
APC-. 11,969
LP-245
PDP-4,178
NNPP-11
EMURE
APC-8,159
LP-465
NNPP-14
PDP- 3035
IREPODUN/ IFELODUN
APC-14,265
LP- 544
PDP-5,516
NNPP-24
IKERE
APC-11,659
LP- 910
NNPP- 24
PDP- 7,198
IJERO
APC- 12, 628
LP- 373
NNPP- 6
PDP- 5, 731
IDO/OSI
APC- 11, 917
LP- 782
NNPP- 14
PDP- 7, 476
EKITI WEST
APC- 14, 516
LP- 391
NNPP- 10
PDP- 4,318
MOBA
APC- 12, 046
LP- 246
NNPP- 11
PDP- 5,847
IKOLE
APC- 15, 465
LP- 779
NNPP- 11
PDP- 10, 198
EKITI EAST
APC- 12, 435
LP- 375
NNPP- 7
PDP- 7, 782
OYE
APC- 14, 472
LP- 643
NNPP- 20
PDP- 7, 143.
EKITI SOUTH-WEST
APC- 11, 334
LP- 440
NNPP- 9
PDP- 5047
ADO-EKITI
APC- 28, 751
LP- 4, 485
NNPP- 87
PDP- 8, 168
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