LAGOS LG/LCDA POLLS: HAKEEM BAMGBOLA PREDICTS CLEAN SWEEP FOR APC; SAYS ‘PDP IS IN DISARRAY IN LAGOS’

By Oki Samson

A Commissioner at the Lagos State Local Government Service Commission (LGSC), Hon. Hakeem Bamgbola has predicted a clean sweep for his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) at the just-concluded LG/LCDA polls in Lagos.

He made this affirmation as he cast his vote earlier today at polling unit 054 Makanjuola under Sanusi ward in Itire/Ikate LCDA.

Breaking: Why I want INEC to surrender election materials for inspection – Atiku

….as tribunal okays stand-down to deliver a ruling

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,  PDP,  Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, adduced reasons why he applied for an order to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  to surrender all the materials used for the February 23 presidential election, for inspection.

He said the request was to establish that the exercise was fraught with manifest irregularities, including multiple thumb-printing of ballot papers, saying he intends to engage forensic experts to analyse the election materials.

Consequently, he prayed the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, for leave to be allowed to obtain some of the sensitive materials that INEC deployed for the presidential election. Meantime, the tribunal, stood-down its proceedings for one hour to enable it to consider the merit or otherwise of the request.

Women storm INEC headquarters, fault military involvement in elections

Women protesting
against
Independent National
Electoral Commission,
INEC, in Owerri.

The women who marched to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Abuja, on the auspices of Save Democracy Women, also called on the electoral umpire to demonstrate high level of non partisanship in Saturday’s elections.

Led by May Uneku, convener, Impact Future Nigeria, the women carried placards bearing various inscriptions to press home their demands.

Some of the placards read: “Nepotism must stop,” “Restore our stolen mandate,” “No place for tyranny in modern democracy’,” “Save our democracy,” “Black cloud over Nigeria,” “Let our votes count,” among others.