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Ibrahim Kabiru, a candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party in the Birnin Kudu Constituency, has been proclaimed the victor of the Jigawa State House of Assembly supplementary election by the Independent National Election Commission.

On Saturday, the Federal University Dutse’s Prof. Usman Haruna, the returning officer, announced Kabiru as the victor in the Birnin Kudu Local Government Area.

He claimed that Kabiru received 36,050 votes, defeating Mr. Muhammad Surajo, the incumbent of the All Progressives Congress and his closest rival, who received 34,545 votes.

According to Haruna, Sulaiman Abdullahi of the NNPP received 722 votes, followed by Muhammad Yakubu of the ADC with 283 votes, Halilu Aliyu of the ADP with 117 votes, Ahmad Abdullahi of the LP with 17, Musa Mahmud of the PPP with 460 votes, and Shuaibu Basiru of the SDP with 14.

“That Ibrahim Kabiru of PDP, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and returned elected,” the returning officer said.

Atiq Ahmad was shot dead while speaking to journalists live on TV in the terrible footage from the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Ahmad, who had more than 100 criminal cases pending against him, was reportedly under arrest and being led by police to a court-ordered medical examination when the event took place.

Only two days prior, his son Asad Ahmad was fatally shot by Uttar Pradesh Police in what was widely regarded as an extrajudicial assassination.

When Ahmad was being questioned by journalists about why he had not gone to his son’s funeral, a shooter crept up behind him, pointed a gun directly at his head, and shot him once, instantly killing him. Ahmad’s response was that he had been forbidden from going.

The shooter fired several rounds at Atiq as he fell to the ground.

Afterwards, two more shooters opened fire, murdering his brother Ashraf, who had a history of crime identical to that of his cousin.

In the hail of gunfire, a police officer and a journalist were also said to have been hurt.

When they were being apprehended by police, the assailants were heard yelling “Surrender” and “Jai Sree Ram,” a cry honoring the god of Hinduism.

“All the three shooters have been kept in three different police stations of the city,” a police commissioner confirmed following the attack.

A judicial panel has also been appointed by the government of Uttar Pradesh to investigate the attack.

More police were deployed, and they were marching on foot around the city.

Ahmed, a former member of parliament, and his brother were in police custody when they were taken to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, where Ahmed was charged with murder and assault.

Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the state where the shooting occurred, has been under fire for encouraging “encounters,” a phrase used in his state to describe extrajudicial killings. He has since established a high-level commission to look into the murder.

Adityanath and the governing BJP party have been under fire from opposition lawmakers and human rights advocates for encouraging “anarchy and lawlessness.”

“When someone can be killed by firing openly amidst the security cordon of the police, then what about the safety of the general public?” tweeted a former Chief Minister of the state, Akhilesh Yadav.

”Due to this, an atmosphere of fear is being created among the public, it seems that some people are deliberately creating such an atmosphere.’

Mail Online has learned that in an effort to restore law and order, police had set a hard curfew and were conducting flag marches nearby.

As the preliminary investigations are being completed, the three gunmen have been detained at three different police stations.

On Saturday, Senator Athan Achonu was announced as the Labour Party, LP’s nominee for governor of Imo in the November 2023 election.

The Landmark event facility in Owerri announced Achonu as the winner.

The governor-elect of Abia state, Alex Otti, stated that Achonu won with 134 votes, defeating Jack Ogunewe, who received 121 votes, according to the chairman of the electoral commission.

Others Mrs. Ndidi, Mrs. Martins Agbaso, and Capt. David Mbamara each received 13 votes. AIG Charles Agomuo received one vote, followed by Kelechi Nwagwu with nine, Chinedu Amadi with four, and others.

Kenyan police announced on Saturday that they had detained a local cult leader after four of his followers apparently died after he instructed them to starve themselves so they might “meet Jesus.”

Eleven additional members of the Makenzie Nthenge-founded Good News International Church were found Friday in the Shakahola forest close to the town of Malindi. Three of them were taken to a hospital and are now in critical condition.

Authorities expressed their concern that there would be found additional victims.

“The pastor is under arrest after he surrendered because he knew we were looking for him,” said Charles Kamau, criminal investigations chief of Malindi sub-county.

Prior to his Monday court appearance, he was taken into jail.

After complaints of “ignorant civilians starving to death under the pretense of meeting Jesus after being brainwashed by a suspect, Makenzie Nthenge, a pastor of Good News International Church,” police conducted a raid in a forest near the coast of Kenya on Friday.

The identities of the four dead are yet unknown.

Seven men and four women, ages 17 to 49, were among the 11 who were sent to the hospital, according to the report.

On Saturday morning, Said Ali, the hospital’s administrator, informed AFP that only two of them were still there.

He claimed that several of the nine individuals who departed had rejected food or medication that had been supplied to them.

Following rumors of a potential mass grave where additional followers may have been interred, investigators were anticipated to continue their search in the Shakahola forest on Saturday.

According to local media, Nthenge was detained and charged last month after two kids died of starvation while in their parents’ care.

Later, he was freed on a bail of 700 dollars ($100,000 Kenyan shillings).

The Divisional Police Officer of Okokomaiko, SP Emmanuel Edebagha, has been immediately fired by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, for failing to supervise his troops.

The CP further mandated that Edebagha and all other officers engaged in the incident face immediate disciplinary action.

Benjamin Hundeyin, the state spokesperson, revealed this on Saturday via his Twitter account.

“CP Idowu Owohunwa has ordered the immediate removal of DPO Okokomaiko for his lack of supervision of his men. CP Owohunwa has also ordered the commencement of disciplinary action against him and all his indicted officers (who are already in the state headquarters),” Hundeyin tweeted.

According to reports, division officers fraudulently accused a phone dealer from Lagos of being a fraudster in order to extract N100,000 from him.

Timipre Sylva, the recently-retired Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has emerged as the APC’s candidate for the Bayelsa State governorship election on November 11.

At the party’s primary election held on Friday and Saturday, Sylva received 52,061 votes to overcome five other candidates and claim the governorship ticket.

In order to conduct the election in the state’s 105 wards and eight local government districts, the APC used the direct mode electoral system.

Joshua Macaiver, a former militant leader, received 2,078 votes, while David Lyon, a former Bayelsa governor-elect running on the APC platform, received 1,584 votes.

Moreover, Festus Daumiebi received 557 votes, Isikima Johnson received 584 votes, and Prof. Ongoebi Etebu received 1,277 votes.

At the party’s headquarters in Yenagoa on Saturday, Major General Ahmed Jibrin (retired), the chairman of the Bayelsa APC primary election committee, proclaimed the former governor the contest’s victor.

He said, “With this result, Timipre Marlin Sylva, having scored the highest number of votes cast is hereby declared as the winner.

“By the power conferred on me by the APC National Working Committee, I declare Chief Timipre Marlin Sylva as the winner of this election.”

The panel then went on to do an affirmation exercise with five ad-hoc delegates from each of the 105 wards within the party’s secretariat in the state capital to confirm the conclusion of the process after revealing the results.

In order to run in the APC’s Bayelsa governorship primary, Sylva resigned from his position in March.

Under the PDP platform, he presided over the state from 2007 to 2012, but the party refused to provide him a ticket for a second term.

The former minister later joined the APC and ran for governor as its candidate in 2015, but he lost to Seriake Dickson of the PDP, who was the incumbent governor at the time.

Four people have been detained in connection with the murder of Peter Nweke, a PDP leader, according to an announcement made by the Ebonyi State Police Command on Friday.

On March 18, 2023, the day of the state’s governorship and house of assembly elections, Nweke was tortured to death by criminals who were thought to be supporters of a competing party.

While acting as his party’s agent in the region, the PDP ward chairman was assassinated at Umuezeokaoha hamlet in the state’s Ezza North Local Government Area.

The state police command said that the suspects had admitted to the crime in a statement that was signed by its spokesperson, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya.

The statement partly read, “During the interrogation of the suspects, the first suspect, Leonard Kelechi Nwali, a Labour Party House of Assembly aspirant, Ezza North Constituency, confessed to hiring the assailants who were meant to torture the late Peter Nweke. However, he died in the process. According to him, the late Peter Nweke posed a threat to his political ambition, so he contacted one Akwasi of Umuezeoka, in Ezza North LGA, who spearheaded the torture that eventually resulted in the death of Mr Peter Nweke.

“The second suspect, Onyebuchi Chita, of Nkomoro community, in the same local government area, confessed to have brought in the killers from Nkomoro into Ogboji community, where Peter Nweke was killed.

“The third suspect, Aloke Obinna, of Ogboji community, confessed to have given his motorcycle to one Onyebuchi Chita for escape after the incident.

“While Ifeanyi Nwokpuku, the fourth suspect, of Ogboji community in Ezza North LGA, conspired with one Sampson Nweke, who pointed Peter Nweke out to the killers.”

After the investigation is complete, the suspects will be arraigned, according to Onovwakpoyeya.

A butcher has been detained by the Delta State Police Command for reportedly killing his wife with a knife in the city of Warri.

According to reports, the incident happened on Thursday night while the suspect was returning from the market and attempting to scoop up hot water for a bath.

According to report, his wife requested him not to touch the boiling water on the cooker and refused, saying he hadn’t paid for the upkeep of the house or the replacement of the cooking gas cylinder.

The guy allegedly disregarded his wife’s objections and pushed his way to the hot water boiler when it was on fire.

As a result, the enraged wife allegedly struck him, which led to a fight between the two of them.

The wife allegedly raced for a kitchen knife during the ensuing altercation with the aim to stab her husband.

However, the male allegedly overcame the wife, took the knife from her by force, and then repeatedly stabbed the woman until she passed out.

According to reports, the suspect then transported the suffering wife to a private hospital for treatment after realizing the seriousness of his actions.

His daughter reportedly raced to a neighboring police station to report the event after learning of the distressing development, and the suspect was promptly taken into custody.

The event was confirmed when contacted by DSP Bright Edafe, the police public relations officer for Delta State Command.

The PPRO said, “Confirmed” without providing much details.

Almost 200 people who were detained for various electoral offenses during the recently completed general elections are expected to face legal action from the Independent National Election Commission.

Almost 50 electoral offense case files have already been forwarded to the election umpire by the Nigeria Police Force.

Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, provided an update on the number of case files that the commission had received from the police authorities and the number of electoral offenders that had been turned over to it. The prosecution of more than 200 accused people is planned.

“The commission has directed its Litigation and Prosecution Department to study the files and advise it on the prosecution. The department has since commenced action and as soon as it finishes, it will revert to the commission accordingly.”

Usman Baba, the inspector general of police, gave commissioners of police in charge of state commands instructions to ensure an investigation into every instance of Election Act violation during the presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25, 2023, on March 13, 2023.

The IG instructed them to forward the case files to INEC for prosecution as soon as the inquiry was over.

On March 14, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman, announced that the commission was assembling a legal team to handle allegations of electoral misconduct during the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections.

On March 28, Baba issued a directive requesting the submission of all electoral offense case files to the Commissioner of Police overseeing the legal section.

He claims that this will allow for coordinated processing and central collation by INEC’s legal unit prior to the start of the criminal investigation.

He pledged that the NPF would work with INEC leadership to see that all electoral criminals were swiftly and transparently prosecuted, not just in the interest of criminal justice but also to advance the police’s goal of sanitizing the country’s election process.

In Abuja, Baba addressed a gathering of the NPF’s strategic police managers, which included assistant inspectors general of police, commissioners of police, deputy inspectors general of police, and other tactical commanders.

As part of the state’s 2023 Hajj fees, the Jigawa State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has deposited N2.5 billion with the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria.

Alhaji Umar Labbo, the executive secretary of the board, informed reporters in Dutse on Friday that NAHCON gave the state 1,225 seats for the election in 2023.

Each intended pilgrim in the state, according to his statement, would pay N2.9 million in Hajj fee, as sanctioned by NAHCON.

80 percent of the seats given to the state by NAHCON, according to Labbo, had been distributed to its 27 local government areas for sale to prospective pilgrims.

He added that AZMAN Airlines had been given the task of transporting the state’s pilgrims by the board.

Those those who had not yet finished paying their Hajj fees were advised by the executive secretary to do so by April 21 at the latest.

Labbo also praised Jigawa Governor Muhammad Badaru for his support of the board.