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General elections were held in Nigeria on 23 February 2019 to elect the President, Vice President, House of Representatives and the Senate. The elections had initially been scheduled for 16 February, but the Electoral Commission postponed the vote by a week at 03:00 on the original polling day, citing logistical challenges in getting electoral materials to polling stations on time.
Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi CON ( Igbo: [òbí] ⓘ; born July 19, 1961) is a Nigerian politician, statesman, political activist and business executive. He served twice as the Governor of Anambra State from 2006 to 2010, and a second term until 2014. Born in Onitsha, Anambra State, Obi had his secondary education at Christ the King College ...
During the 2019 general elections, Situation Room recruited, trained and deployed about 8,000 election observers across Nigeria's 36 States and its capital Abuja, who monitored presidential, parliamentary and State elections and sent in reports from the field to the Situation Room Election Hub located at Transcorp Hillton Hotel, Abuja. For the ...
ABUJA (Reuters) -A Nigerian election tribunal will on Wednesday deliver its ruling to petitions challenging the result of a presidential vote that brought Bola Tinubu to power, the court registrar ...
Official website. Muhammadu Buhari 's tenure as the 15th president of Nigeria began with his first inauguration on 29 May 2015, and ended on 29 May 2023. A retired general and member of the All Progressives Congress from Katsina State, he previously served as military head-of-state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, when he was deposed in ...
Omoyele Yele Sowore (born 16 February 1971) is a Nigerian politician, human rights activist, citizen reporter, writer, lecturer and pro-democracy campaigner, known for founding the online news agency Sahara Reporters. [1] [2] [3] In August 2018, he founded the African Action Congress party and ran as its presidential candidate in the 2019 ...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Founded on 6 February 2013 from a merger of Nigeria's three largest opposition parties, the party came to power following the victory of party candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election.
The Young Progressives Party ( YPP) is a social-democratic political party in Nigeria. The party was created to challenge the two major contemporary parties in Nigeria, the People's Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress. In its manifesto, it called for concerted efforts to improve welfare, fight for social justice and provide ...