By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna: The Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] has declared President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP the winner of the 2011 presidential poll in Nigeria. Announcing the result in Abuja last night, The INEC Chairman and the Chief Returning Officer for the presidential election, Professor Attahiru Jega, said the PDP candidate stands elected as President having satisfied the constitutional requirements for the position. According to the announcement by the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, in total, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 22,495,187; Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) 12,214,853; All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) 917,012;... Continue Reading
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna: The ECOWAS Observation Mission has appraised Saturday’s Presidential election declaring that the election meets the criteria of being free and transparent. Briefing newsmen in Abuja, head of the team, and former interim President of Liberia, Mr. Amos Sawyer said the mission is satisfied with the concrete steps taken by the electoral body, INEC to ensure that electoral officers were in full control of polling processes and for ensuring the availability of adequate voting materials at polling stations nationwide. The Observer Mission also lauded collaboration of security agencies in ensuring that the elections were conducted in a... Continue Reading
By Gambian Correspondent – The ground has been set for the much-awaited bye-election in Wuli East constituency, after the ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) and the opposition National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD) on Monday nominated their candidates for the elections. While the ruling party fielded one Saidou Sabally, a native of Passamas Fula Kunda in Wuli East district, the opposition NADD’s candidate is Suwaibou Touray, the same candidate who lost to the ruling party’s candidate in the last legislative elections. Presided over by IEC official Alieu Momar Njie, the nominations took place at the Independent... Continue Reading
By Gambian Correspondent – As the political situation in Ivory Coast begins to settle down, the opposition Gambia Moral Congress (GMC) yesterday issued a statement condemning in the strongest terms, what it called the illegitimate attempts of former President Laurent Gbagbo to cling to power by all unlawful means. In the statement signed by its party leader, Mai Ahmad Fatty, the GMC expressed its unconditional solidarity with the peoples of Cote d’Ivoire in their legitimate quest for democracy and the sanctity of their collective will abundantly expressed through the ballot box, while supporting recommendations for Laurent Gbagbo’s “immediate prosecution for... Continue Reading
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Nigeria’s incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party last night emerged victorious in twenty-one out of the twenty-nine states whose results the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced. Dr. Jonathan was closely trailed by the Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who won in seven of the states where results have been announced. As at eleven p.m. last night, Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) won in only one of the twenty-nine states. A combined team of the army, mobile... Continue Reading
