President-elect to emerge today –Jega

The Independent National Electoral
Commission has said that despite
the extension of Saturday’s
elections till Sunday in some parts
of the country, the results of the
presidential poll will be declared
on Monday(today).
INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega,
gave the assurance as some of
results from wards, local
government areas and states
continued to emerge on Sunday.
For instance, results from Osun and
Ogun states showed the All
Progressives Congress Presidential
candidate, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari, defeating President
Goodluck Jonathan.
But in Ekiti State, Jonathan had an
easy ride as he beat the APC
candidate.
Jega, who gave journalists an
update on the conduct of the polls
in Abuja, said that as of Sunday
evening, results of the elections
had only been completely collated
in two states, one of which was
Ekiti.
He said, “Some people assume that
when I said 48 hours( for the
release of the results), it starts from
the morning the elections
commenced. It is 48 hours after
elections have ended, like
yesterday(Saturday).
“You start counting 48 hours from
yesterday (Saturday) when
substantial majority of the polling
units ended elections.”
The INEC chief expressed
satisfaction over the conduct of
the polls, which he said held in a
substantial number of polling units
across the country, including the
troubled North-East zone where
internally displaced persons voted
in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno
states.
“We are pleased that the elections
went on smoothly in a substantial
number of polling units across the
country, including the North-East
where the commission was also
able to conduct voting for
Internally Displaced Persons in the
three states of Adamawa, Yobe and
Borno,” Jega said.
He said that out of more than
150,000 card readers used for the
conduct of the polls , only 300
failed, representing about 0.25 per
cent of the total number of
machines.
“It is also gratifying to note that the
card readers worked well in the
majority of polling units, even
though there were areas where
difficulties experienced
necessitated additional guidelines
to allow for manual accreditation of
voters, as announced yesterday
(Saturday),” Jega said.
He stated that manual accreditation
was done in some polling units in
Osun, Kebbi, Ekiti, Adamawa, Borno,
Jigawa, Anambra, Akwa Ibom and
Ebonyi states.”
Jega said the elections were
extended and concluded on
Sunday in nine states and the
Federal Capital Territory.
Taraba State has the highest
number of 116 polling units where
the polls were extended.
Other states where the number of
polling units where the elections
were extended are Lagos (90),
Kebbi (16), Adamawa (25), Niger
(six ), Yobe (37), Borno (eight),
Jigawa (37), Kano (13) and FCT
(two).
He also rejected the claim by the
spokesman for the PDP Presidential
Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-
Kayode, that his party had won in
certain number of states.
Jega, who said Fani-Kayode should
be asked the source of his figures,
stated that as of the time he was
addressing the journalists on
Sunday evening, collation had only
been concluded in two states. He
said that the results from the two
had yet to arrive Abuja in the
manner that it could be announced.
The chairman said, “You said
somebody in one of the parties said
the PDP is winning in 23 states. I
don’t know the sources of his
information. I know result have not
been collated in 23 states.
“May be you should direct the
questions to him and let him
explain.”
He advised journalists “to be
careful about reporting this kind of
information that is being put out
there by people who are clearly
partisan.”
He also debunked speculation that
he was under pressure to declare
results of the presidential election
inconclusive.
“We are not under any pressure to
declare inconclusive elections. In
fact, I wonder who will be
interested in declaring the election
inconclusive. I think candidates will
be interested in being declared
winners and not to have the
election declared inconclusive,”
Jega said.
The INEC boss said his office had on
Sunday morning received petitions
from the APC in Rivers State calling
for outright cancellation of the
elections in the state.
He assured the petitioners that the
commission would consider all the
complaints, including the
allegation of presence of some
underage voters and substitution
of some members of the
commission’s ad hoc staff with
untrained partisan persons in
Rivers and Lagos states.
However, results from Osun State
showed that Buhari recorded
victory in 22 out of the 24 Local
Government Areas so far
announced by the state INEC. He
had 264,734 votes.
Jonathan,who won the remaining
LGAs – Ife Central and Ife East –
scored 192,288 votes.
The results were announced in
Osogbo by the returning officers for
each of the LGAs on Sunday.
Also in Ogun State, the APC
presidential candidate defeated
Jonathan in 13 out of the 20 LGAs
whose results were announced by
INEC.
He polled 308, 290 votes while
Jonathan scored 207,950 votes.
The APC candidate for the Ogun
Central Senatorial District, Lanre
Tejuoso, defeated PDP’s Abisola
Sodipo-Clark, the wife of an Ijaw
national leader, Edwin Clark.
Tejuoso scored 115, 197 votes while
Sodipo-Clark had 30,036 votes. The
sitting senator for Ogun Central and
Social Democratic Party’s
candidate, Olugbenga Obadara, got
15,124 votes.
Jonathan, however, had it easy in
Ekiti State where he polled 176,466
votes from 16 councils in the state.
Buhari garnered 120,331 votes.
The result was announced by the
state Returning Officer, Prof.
Adebiyi Daramola, to party officials
on Sunday.
It was also a sweet victory for the
PDP as it won all the three
senatorial and six House of
Representatives seats in the state.
Impliedly, by implication two of the
APC senators – Anthony Adeniyi
and Olubunmi Adetumbi – who
contested the poll will not join
their colleagues in the eight
National Assembly.
Gbenga Olofin, the third APC
candidate for Ekiti Central was
defeated by Fatimat Raji-Rasaki,
wife of a former Lagos State
military administrator, Brig.-Gen.
Raji Rasaki of the PDP.
Those elected for the House of
Representatives seats are Kehinde
Agboola, Ayotunde Oladimeji,
Thaddeus Aina, Olamide Oni, Akin
Awodumila and Segun Adekola.
In Kogi State, Buhari was leading by
polling 108,817 votes from six LGAs
as against Jonathan’s 84,555 in five
LGAs.
The APC candidate also won in
Dekina, the LGA of Governor Idris
Wada with 18, 819 votes to
Jonathan’s 13,885 votes. He also
won in Amadu Alli’s LGA of Idah with
10,445 votes to Jonathan’s 6,113.
But there was a mild tension in
parts of Imo State on Sunday as
armed officials of the Department
of State Services, the Police and the
Army barred journalists from
collation centres in the state.
At the collation centre in Owerri
Municipal Council Secretariat,
journalists were turned back from
the gate by stern looking security
operatives who asked them to go
back and wait until the results
were announced.
All efforts to reach the Resident
Electoral Commissioner, George
Ada, were abortive as his telephone
was switched off.

I hope there won't be ojoro sa

Let wait and see they announce the winner.

Okay

smile2012 wrote:

I hope there won't be ojoro sa

power to the people

Power ole

No power again as e dey go bro.

Akwa Ibom PDP 900,000+ against APC 57000+
IMO PDP 600,000+ against APC 130,000+
Enugu PDP 500,000+ against APC

Congratulations to the whole
nigeria for a successful poles.
God is a winner and Nigeria is
the winner. We love u all.

Congrats

dericyk wrote:

Congratulations to the whole
nigeria for a successful poles.
God is a winner and Nigeria is
the winner. We love u all.

yea.

Bro aneke, what happen to the words "power" ?

eddyvic wrote:

Bro aneke, what happen to the words "power" ?

u av announced the winner abi?

Not yet, just congratulation u in advance.

Congratulations...