It was a narrow escape for the ruling party in Kaduna state as the party candidate, Sen Uba Sanni was declared the winner of the Saturday election in the state.Uba Sanni defeated his closest rival with barely 12,000 votes. Uba Sanni scored 730,000 while Ashiru scored 719,000Meanwhile, the PDP has rejected the result announced by INEC.

In a landmark achievement, Rev Hyacinth Alia, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the Benue state governorship election.Ali, a reverend father, garnered 473,933 votes to defeat Titus Uba, the candidate of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), who polled 223,913 votes, to be declared the winner on Monday.Herman Hembe of the Labour Party (LP) scored 41,881 votes.Alia was sacked by the Catholic church last year for fully engaged in partisan politics....

In furthering the victory the party recorded in the National Assembly election in the state some weeks ago, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of the March 18 governorship election in the state.Declaring the result at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) State Headquarters in Abakaliki on Sunday, the State Returning Officer, Charles Igwe, said Mr Nwifuru garnered a total of 199,131 votes cast across the...