Vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mr Peter Obi, on Tuesday, said the results declared by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from Anambra state was unacceptable to the party.

He accused the electoral umpire of disenfranchising over 8 million registered voters in the South East Geo-political Zone in the last general election.

Addressing newsmen in his Onitsha residence, Obi further lamented that the election was systematically planned to ensure the zone did not participate fully in the exercise.

He argued that only 20% were able to cast their votes out of 10 million registered voters in the area.

He said, “You will recall that on the election day I said that the process was clumsy and we also had major problem of card readers and most people could not vote.

“When over 400,000 Card Readers got burnt it became clear that something was wrong somewhere and INEC could not save the situation and they will not allow people to vote manually.

“But in some other parts of the country people are allowed to vote manually and it was accepted by the electoral body. Now how can you tell me that a state like Yobe and Bornu produced the number of voters that is higher than Anambra and Ebony states put together?

“The two states are areas that have been at war and I wonder how they got Card Readers that are working so well despite the war situation that they found themselves?

Obi regretted the retrogressive disposition the country was tilting to, noting that instead of the country building on achievements of the 2015 general election the country was on a reverse

He added, “The impressive turn out of voters was discouraged by the performance of the electoral body last Saturday.

Obi further decried the harassment and attack members of his party had suffered in the hands of security agencies targeted at intimidating them.

He however hinted that it was not in his powers to announce any demand for the cancellation of the election, saying, “It is left for the party to make its position clear on the matter.”

Student of the University of Lagos (Unilag) on Tuesday told an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court that she was allegedly gang-raped by eight fellow students and blackmailed with a video recording of the assault.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Miss Z (name withheld) a 19-year-old student of the institution made the revelation while giving evidence during the trial of five students over the alleged crimes.

The students are -Moboluwaji Omowole, 19, Chuka Chukwu, 19, Peace Nwankama, 19, James Aguedu, 20 and Osemeka Josephine, 20.

They face a three-count charge of defilement of a child, permitting the defilement of a child in a premises and procuration.

Other students who are alleged by authorities to be accomplices to the alleged crimes are still at large.

Miss Z who was 17-years-old at the time of the alleged gang rape was led in evidence by Mrs K.A Momoh-Ayokambi, the lead state prosecutor.

In a lengthy testimony which lasted for 2 hours and 10 minutes, she gave an explicit account of her ordeal.

Narrating the events that led to the alleged gang rape, she told the court that she became friends with Nwankaba (the third defendant) who was her roommate when she moved into school hostel at the 2016/2017 academic session.

She alleged that Nwankaba, her friend and roommate lured her to be gang raped.

“I had three roommates which included Peace Nwankaba, during the course of being in the room, Peace and I became friends, she even introduced me to her parents on our matriculation day between Jan. 13 to 17 2017.

“One day in the early afternoon around 12pm, Peace called me on the phone and asked if I was around and asked if I wanted to hang with another boy called Yinka (now at large) at High Rise which is a staff quarters hostel at Unilag.

“At the time I did not know what High Rise was, I told her and she said it was a hostel where people stay.

“I told her I was not sure that I will think about it, she cut the call and called me again within the space of five minutes but this time it was Yinka who was talking to me.

“He told me it was supposed to be a hang out and Peace will be there, at that point I agreed and since I didn’t know where High Rise was Yinka and Peace told me to meet them at Jaja Hall, a male hostel at Unilag.

“When I got there I only met Yinka with James (fourth defendant). When I saw Yinka I asked of Peace and he said she is at High Rise.”

She said when she got to High Rise, she was led to a small building behind High Rise where she met Seriki (now at large) and a group of boys but was assured by Yinka that Peace will come to the premises.

Miss Z said: “James led me up a flight of stairs and we got into a room, there were boys outside the corridor because some of the boys who were downstairs had come upstairs.

“I entered the room with Seriki qms James but Yinka stayed outside, when I entered the room I met two boys and a girl the boys are- Emmanuel (at large), I cannot remember the name of the second boy and Josephine (the fifth defendant).

“When James and Seriki entered the room, Josephine and the two boys left and at this point it was clear to me that Peace was not in High Rise.

“Yinka then asked me to have sex with him, I said no but he continued forcefully persisting and removing my clothes at this point, two other people who were looking into the room entered the room and held me down while Yinka had forceful sex with me.

“In no particular order, the following took their turns – Daniel, James, Yinka, Bolu (first defendant), Seriki, Emmanuel and two other people who I don’t know their name. They were eight men.”

Miss Z said that she that following the alleged gang rape, she was subjected to further sexual assault by the some of defendants and their accomplices.

“After they did that they all came into the room including Josephine and they started playing music, four people held me down and were touching me all around while Josephine was either kissing one of then dancing with one of them.

“At a point Josephine asked of she could kiss me while I was trying to fight off the people around. I was thinking of leaving but I was outnumbered and I didn’t know if those downstairs were part of them.

“Eventually Josephine kissed me and they made comments like its not that bad etc. When they were molesting me, there was a guy who was sitting down and video recording all that was happening on a phone.

“My first instinct was to get the phone from him but I thought I was outnumbered. At a point when they were leaving, they led me outside the building and they told me they had a video of what happened.

“They said if I don’t want to be popular in school, I have to answer them anytime they wanted to have sex. They collected my number and shared it among themselves,” she said.

Miss Z said she did not know how to handle the situation and kept everything that happened to herself because she was scared she will get into a lot of trouble because of the video and that her father will be very angry.

She said felt victimised and in bondage and that she gave Nwankaba her roommate the benefit of doubt thinking that she was unaware of what happened to her.

“I was still talking to Peace as I assumed she did not know what happened, I trusted her, she introduced me to her parents during matriculation and we were in the same room,” she said.

Miss Z told the court that a week or two after the alleged incident she was on more than two occasions subjected to more gang rape and sexaul assault by the members of the group who now included Simi, Randy, Idowu and Eddy (who are all at large).

She alleged that some of the assault and defilement occurred at Chukwu’s (second defendants) parents house Pako area of Yaba.

Miss Z told the court that to add to her ordeal, rumours about the video tape began to make rounds in the school premises.

“I started hearing stories and the narrative was as though I wanted it, Henry a friend of Peace told me that I was popular at Jaja Hall and that there was a video and I wanted to get away from it.

“I had a friend (name withheld) who we both belonged to the an organization in school, he liked me and he is the type to find out about everyone he likes when he heard about the story and video he asked questions.

“Unknown to me, he reported to the school authorities and on Mar. 1, 2017, he told me to follow him to Ecobank to withdraw money but unknown to me, he wanted me to see the school counselor.

“The school counselor beckoned to me, I saw my biodata in her hands, she asked me to follow her and at this point I knew who she was.

“I thought I was going to be expelled, she pulled out a form and asked me to state what happened and I told her everything, she told me the school was behind my back and she said they will be caught, ” Miss Z said.

She said the counselor asked her to lure Omowole (first defendant) to a place within the school premises where he was arrested, taken to the office of the Dean Student Affairs where he provided the names of the rest of his alleged accomplices.

The student said she was admitted at the Unilag Medical Center for three days where the parents of arrested students tried soliciting her to not doing anything about the case.

“From the Medical Center, I went home and stayed for three weeks, during that time their parents were trying to bribe my family with between N3million to N5million.

“My family declined as my mother and brothers were very supportive,” she said.

Miss Z said when she returned to school, the story was in the news and she was being harassed as a result.

“A journalist posted the story in Nairaland and Linda Ikeji blog and one of the defendants created a fake account revealing my identity.

“My photo was also taken by some of Chukwu (second defendant) and one Eddy (at large) in the school premises.

“The people who raped and defiled me are in the same clique, they went to the same secondary school called ISL, I don’t know the full name of the secondary school, ”
she said.

Justice Sururat Soladoye adjourned the case until March 18 for cross-examination of Miss Z. (NAN)

President Buhari on Tuesday resumed office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja after returning from the presidential election break. See another photo below.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has defeated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in Lagos State.

Buhari polled 580,825 votes to defeat his main rival, Abubakar, who had 448,015 in the state.

The result was announced by the state collation officer, Prof: F.K Salako at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, collation center in Abuja, on Tuesday.

According to Salako, the total number of registered voters included: 6,313,507; total number of accredited; 1,196,490: total votes cast; 1,156,590

total valid votes: 1,089,567 and rejected votes include: 67,023

Dele Momodu has already urged Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party to pick up his phone to call on Buhari who is clearly leading in collated results of the presidential election so far.

Perhaps, it is an advice from Dele Momodu for Atiku to emulate what former president Goodluck Jonathan did in 2015 when he called Buhari on phone after realizing he had lost the election.

Taking to Twitter, Dele Momodu wrote:

My dear WAZIRIN, as a believer, you are aware that only God can give or take power. You’ve written your name in gold. Do not wait a minute longer. Please, pick that phone and call President Muhammadu Buhari. You have much more to gain Sir… Pass on the burden!

My dear WAZIRIN, to cut a long tale short, many lives have been wasted, many citizens have been brutally injured, and the results have virtually been declared, and the direction is all too obvious. And this is where you come in, as tempers rise, left, right and centre…

President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 1,232,133 votes to emerge winner of last Saturday’s presidential election held in Katsina state.

His PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got 308,056 votes.

A breakdown of the results showed that Katsina has total registered voters of 3,210,422 while the total accredited voters of the elections are 1,628,865.

The total number of votes cast is 1,619,185 while 63,712 were rejected votes

Buhari won all the 34 local government areas declared by INEC in the state.

A breakdown of the results as announced by the state’s Coalition Officer, Prof. Fatima Muktar, shows as follows:

Ingawa

APC – 29,230

PDP – 7,625

Kurfi

APC – 25,074

PDP – 9,175

Matazu

APC – 27,625

PDP – 9,151

Daura

APC – 37,648

PDP – 4,650

Sandamu

APC – 29,220

PDP – 9,025,

Rimi

APC – 33,361

PDP – 8,818

Danmusa

APC – 30,011

PDP – 7,528

Safana

APC – 26,631

PDP – 5,756

Dutsi

APC – 22,774

PDP – 5,330

Batsari

APC – 26,774

PDP – 7,916

Kusada

APC – 21,071

PDP – 6,713

Bakori

APC – 53,623

PDP – 11,931

Batagarawa

APC – 37,695

PDP – 8,453

Bindawa

APC – 35,030

PDP – 9,623

Musawa

APC – 31,690

PDP – 6,673

Dutsinma

APC – 35,700

PDP – 10,440

Danja

APC – 41,183

PDP – 9,664

Zango

APC – 25,207 ‎

PDP – 6891

Dandume

APC – 35,699

PDP – 6,647

Mashi

APC – 31,786

PDP – 14,344

Baure

APC – 42,108

PDP – 8,534

Sabuwai

APC – 22,879

PDP – 10,256

Katsina

APC – 68,968

PDP -15,170

Malumfashi

APC – 60,143

PDP – 12,352

Kafur

APC – 56,954

PDP – 15,345

Kankara

APC – 53,853

PDP – 10,768

Jibia

APC – 33,030

PDP – 7,987

Mani

APC – 38,826

PDP – 8,565

Funtua

APC – 56,256

PDP – 6,927

Faskari

APC – 44,987

PDP – 14,648

President Muhammadu Buhari has defeated his opponent, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of PDP, yet again with over 1, 073, 175 votes, Punchng.com reports.

The Collation Officer for the just concluded Presidential election in Kano, Professor Magaji Garba, who is the vice-chancellor, Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State, disclosed the results at the early hours of Tuesday, after the collation of the results from across the 44 Local Government Areas of the state.

He said, the APC Presidential candidate scored 1, 464, 768m, to defeat the PDP candidate, who garnered 391,593 votes.

Garba explained that the total votes cast during the election on Saturday was 1,964,751m, while the total valid votes stood at 1.891,134m, just as the total rejected votes is 73,617.

INEC on Monday started announcement of the presidential election results.

As of the time of filing this report, INEC had announced the result in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

The states are Ondo, Ekiti, Gombe, Kwara, Kogi, Yobe, Abia, Osun, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Enugu and the Federal Capital Territory.

The results were announced by the returning officers of the states at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari, won in Ekiti, Nasarawa, Yobe, Osun, Kwara, Kogi and Gombe, while his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, won in Ondo, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu and the FCT.

See FULL List Below;

ATIKU wins in Enugu with 355,553 votes;

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,935,168
Total No: of Accredited: 452,765
Total Votes Cast: 451,063
Total Valid Votes: 421,014
Rejected Votes: 30,049

AAC: 219
ADC: 348
ADP: 137
APC: 54,423
PDP: 355,553
SDP: 130

ATIKU wins in Ebonyi State with 258,573:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,392,931
Total No: of Accredited: 391,747
Total Votes Cast: 379,394
Total Valid Votes: 359,131
Rejected Votes: 20,263

AAC: 205
ADC: 213
ADP: 102
APC: 90,726
PDP: 258,573
SDP: 452

ATIKU wins in Abia state with 219,698 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,793,861
Total No: of Accredited: 361,561
Total Votes Cast: 344,471
Total Valid Votes: 323,291
Rejected Votes: 21,180

AAC: 212
ADC: 336
ADP: 131
APC: 85,058
PDP: 219,698
SDP: 472

ATIKU wins in Ondo state with 275,901 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,812,567
Total No: of Accredited: 598,586
Total Votes Cast: 586,827
Total Valid Votes: 555,994
Rejected Votes: 30,833

AAC:4,414
ADC:6,296
ADP:1,005
APC:241,769
PDP:275,901
SDP:1,618

ATIKU wins in FCT Abuja with 259,997 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,335,015
Total No: of Accredited: 467,784
Total Votes Cast: 451,408
Total Valid Votes: 423,951
Rejected Votes: 27,457

AAC: 583
ADC: 246
ADP: 145
APC: 152,224
PDP: 259,997
SDP: 410

BUHARI wins in Kogi state with 285,207 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,640,449
Total No: of Accredited: 570,773
Total Votes Cast: 553,496
Total Valid Votes: 521,016
Rejected Votes: 32,480
AAC: 250
ADC: 4,369
ADP: 499
APC: 285,894
PDP: 218,207
SDP: 2,226

BUHARI wins in Nassarawa State with 289,903 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,509,481
Total No: of Accredited: 613,720
Total Votes Cast: 599,399
Total Valid Votes: 580,778
Rejected Votes: 18,621

AAC: 75
ADC: 339
ADP: 107
APC: 289,903
PDP: 283,847
SDP: 359

BUHARI wins in Kwara state with 308,984 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,401 895
Total No: of Accredited: 489,482
Total Votes Cast: 486,254
Total Valid Votes: 459,676
Rejected Votes: 26,578

AAC: 401
ADC: 456
ADP: 203
APC: 308,984
PDP: 138,184
SDP: 212

BUHARI wins in Gombe state with 402,961 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,385,191
Total No: of Accredited: 604,240
Total Votes Cast: 580,649
Total Valid Votes: 554,203
Rejected Votes: 26,446

AAC: 165
ADC: 248
ADP: 135
APC: 402,961
PDP: 138,484
SDP: 248

BUHARI wins in Yobe state with 497,914 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,365,913
Total No: of Accredited: 601,059
Total Votes Cast: 586,137
Total Valid Votes: 559,365
Rejected Votes: 26,772

AAC: 137
ADC: 162
ADP: 107
APC: 497,914
PDP: 50,763
SDP: 180

BUHARI wins in Ekiti state with 219,231 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 899,919
Total No: of Accredited: 395,741
Total Votes Cast: 393,709
Total Valid Votes: 381,132
Rejected Votes: 12,577

AAC: 400
ADC: 406
ADP: 126
APC: 219,231
PDP: 154,032
SDP: 48

BUHARI wins in Osun state with 347,634 votes:

Total No: Reg Voters: 1,674,729
Total No: of Accredited: 732,984
Total Votes Cast: 731,882
Total Valid Votes: 714,682
Rejected Votes: 17200

AAC: 1,022
ADC: 1,525
ADP: 9,057
APC: 347,634
PDP: 337,377
SDP: 259

TOTAL VOTES SO FAR:

PDP: 1,369,722
APC: 2,351,834
Difference: 982,112