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Mr Seyi Makinde   The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seyi Makinde, is on course to win the Oyo State governorship election as he recorded 27 in 33LGAs in the state. Although he has not been officially declared as winner, and with one local government, Ibadan South West, still awaited, the PDP candidate has won 27 out of the 32 local government areas declared so far. Mr Makinde has so far received a total of 481,177 votes from the local government declared while the All progressives Congress candidate, Bayo Adelabu, received 331,799 votes. The returning officer and other INEC officials have gone on a short break while awaiting the arrival of the Ibadan South West results .

Babajide Sanwo-Olu The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State Babajide Sanwo-Olu has won in all the 20 local government areas in the state. The results were announced this afternoon at the INEC office in Yaba. Although the Independent National Electoral Commission has not officially declared Sanwo-Olu as the winner of the election, but APC defeated the People’s Democratic Party by as much as 533,300 votes. Sanwo-Olu polled 739,445 against Agbaje’s 206,141.

None of the 157 Passengers Fear Dead In Ethiopian Airline Clashon Sunday morning en route to Nairobi  from Addis Ababa  have survived, the airline said. The aircraft, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members, took off at 08:38am  (05:38 GMT) and lo st contact with air traffic controllers six minutes later. It crashed near Bishoftu, southeast of the Ethiopian capital, Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash of the plane, which was new and had been delivered to the airline in November. The pilot, who had been working for the carrier since 2010, sent out a distress call shortly after take-off and was given clearance to return.

The Allied Peoples Movement has rejected the ongoing election results being announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The APM Campaign Director General, Sarafa Ishola, said this on Sunday at the party’s secretariat at Leme, Abeokuta. Ishola said the election began peacefully on Saturday, but was allegedly hijacked by hoodlums and “unidentified uniformed men” during the collation stage. He said the results of the election were manipulated in favour of APC. He said the APM had petitioned INEC in the state to investigate the “infractions” and stop announcement of results forthwith. The DG expressed concern that, despite the complaints, the INEC has started announcing the results. Ishola said the APM rejects the results as being announced, declaring that “it was hijacked, compromised and did not reflect the wishes of Ogun people.”

Mr Seyi Makinde As the final collation of results across the local governments is ongoing, the Oyo state chapter of the ruling All Progressive Congress has submitted a petition against the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate Seyi Makinde to the electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The APC petition accused Makinde of what it described as “breach of electoral laws” and thereby demanded for his immediate arrest and prosecution. The petition addressed to the Oyo State Resident Electoral Commissioner and entitled  “Petition Against Engr. Seyi Makinde on Electoral offences committed in breach of electoral laws “ , was submitted to the Agodi office of the commission on Sunday. According to the petition, Makinde was accused of releasing a video in the early hours of Sunday where the PDP candidate “pointedly proclaimed himself winner of the governorship election in Oyo state when INEC, the authorised umpire has not concluded same nor de...

The Kwara State All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Mr. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has won the governorship election held on Saturday. He polled 331,546 votes to emerge as the winner of the highly anticipated election His Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, Mr. Abdulrazaq Atunwa, polled 114,754 votes to emerge as the runner-up in the election. From the official results declared in all the 16 local government areas in the state, Abdulrazaq led Atunwa with a margin of 216,792 votes. Notably, the APC beat the PDP in all the local government areas.

Chief Adebayo Adelabu Chief Adebayo Adelabu, the APC governorship candidate in Oyo State and his running mate, Samuel Egunjobi lost their local governments to the PDP in the March 9 governorship election. Newsmen report that Adelabu lost in Ibadan South- East while Egunjobi did so in  Iwajowa Local Government Area. Mr Abiodun Olapade, an Associate Professor from the University of Ibadan and the Returning Officer for Ibadan South East announced that Adelabu polled 13, 277 as against PDP’s 24, 556 votes.  Similarly, Mr Bashir Awodoyin, Associate Professor, who is the Returning Officer for Iwajowa Local Government announced that APC polled 8, 459 as against PDP’s 9,358 votes.