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“On election day, several acts of thuggery and intimidation halted polling in various locations, especially across the south but also in states in the center and northern areas,” the EU EOM monitors said.
A resident of Benue State, Terungwa Shankyula, urged the governor-elect to come up with ideas that would lead to infrastructure growth and the state’s overall development.
Kano State citizens go to the polls on March 18 to elect a new governor as the outgoing Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s second term ends on May 29.
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PDP has dominated the state since the country’s return to democracy. In 1999, Chimaroke Nnamani was elected under the platform of the PDP and governed the state for eight years. He handed over to a fellow party man, Sullivan Chime, who governed the state from 2007 to 2015.
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Nigeria has a lower probability of electing a young governor who is between 35 and 40 years in the forthcoming gubernatorial election, according to Dataphyte analysis.
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Dataphyte analyses Makinde’s chances to navigate and overcome the hurdles before him to emerge as a second-term governor on March 11th, 2023.
Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) got 4,772 (1.02 percent) votes in the state, while the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) contestant, Rabiu Kwankwaso, polled 1,803 votes.
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This is the second time a sitting governor in the state has lost his bid to pick the senatorial seat in the state.
However, reports from the field show that this is not the case. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not help the situation either.
However, for the position of the Senate, only ADC, PDP, APC, and NNPP have contestants in all the states and the FCT. The SDP has contestants in 36 of the 37 states (including the FCT).
With the current cash shortages amid an election, what is the fate of the election, given the history of vote-buying in previous elections?
Ten states with 39.19 million registered voters can will play vital roles in deciding the country’s next president come February 25, 2023. These states account for 41.92 per cent of the total registered voters in the country.
Nasarawa State spent 30 percent of its agricultural expenditure of N1.31 billion on capital items. Kwara and Kogi states spent less than 15 percent of their total agriculture expenditure on capital items. In Kwara State, only 14 percent of N622 million earmarked for expenditure went to capital items.
Twenty-five year-old Aina Ajibola dropped out of Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic, giving up her dream of becoming a graduate. This was the second time she was abandoning tertiary education, the first being at Obafemi Awolowo University.
Of the three sectors reviewed, agriculture is the only area where Rivers spent more than it budgeted on capital projects. The state had a capital to recurrent ratio in the agriculture sector of 22 to 88 percent.
