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The All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State have accused each other of being behind the violence that erupted in Ile Ife after the House of Assembly election on Saturday.

The Director of Publicity of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Monday that the violence in Ife and Ilase was caused by the PDP.

He said that supporters of the PDP, which won two seats in the Osun State House of Assembly, had been venting their anger on members of the APC, whose party won 24 seats out of 26 available.

But the Secretary of the PDP in the state, Mr. Bola Ajao, when contacted on the telephone, denied the allegation.

Ajao said that the PDP was not known to be troublemakers, saying the APC would attack and kill and would be the first to rush to the press to accuse the PDP.

The APC statement read, All Progressives Congress in the State of Osun has called on the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to prevail on its partys Osun chapter to stop forthwith, the killings going on in Ile Ife and Ilase in the Obokun Local Government Area of the state.

Violence and murder are crimes against humanity and society and they are not tolerated in a democratic setting.

If Osun PDP leadership and their supporters have any issue or objection to the outcome of last Saturdays election, the lawful and civilised thing to do is to seek redress from the election tribunal.

However, the PDP secretary challenged the APC to name the PDP members who perpetrated the crimes.

He said, We need to ask the APC if those who engaged in the violence wore PDP clothes. How did he know that they were supporters of the PDP?

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Osun APC, PDP trade blame over post-election violence

The All Progressives Congress has blamed Saturdays inconclusive governorship election in Imo State on the State Independent National Electoral Commission.

The Director of the Rochas Okorocha Campaign Organisation, Mr. Iheukwumere Alaribe, made this known while speaking with journalists in Owerri, the state capital, on Monday.

Alaribe accused INEC of colluding with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to declare the election inconclusive, in spite of overwhelming evidence that the APC won in Imo.

He said, It is clear that the APC had the advantage of more than 79,000 votes over the PDP. We had the advantage of geographical spread, too and we were able to secure 25 per cent of the votes in all the local government areas in the state.

Alaribe argued that though, there was evidence that the people of Imo voted massively for the APC, it was shocking that the INEC conspired with the PDP to prevent voters in some parts of the state the right to perform their civic responsibility on Election Day.

Declaring that election did not take place in all the three LGAs in Mbaise land and results were also manipulated in Oru East as well as Ezinihitte, he noted that the governorship poll was inconclusive because of the connivance between INEC and the PDP.

He called on the Police and other law enforcement agencies to investigate the allegations of election malpractices against the Commission and the opposition party in Imo.

Regarding the current status of the election, he said, Although INEC has not officially communicated to us, we are prepared to submit ourselves for the run-off election. But, we want to be sure that it will be free and fair. If INEC had done the proper thing, the run-off would have been avoided.

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APC blames INEC for Imo gov inconclusive election

The All Progressives Congress has blamed Saturdays inconclusive governorship election in Imo State on the State Independent National Electoral Commission.

The Director of the Rochas Okorocha Campaign Organisation, Barrister Iheukwumere Alaribe, made this known in a meeting with journalists in Owerri, the state capital, on Monday.

Alaribe accused INEC of colluding with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to declare the election inconclusive, in spite of overwhelming evidence that the APC won in Imo.

He said, It is clear that the APC had the advantage of more than 79,000 votes over the PDP. We had the advantage of geographical spread too and we were able to secure 25 per cent of the votes in all the local government areas in the state.

He said though there was evidence that the people of Imo voted massively for the APC, it was shocking that the INEC conspired with the PDP to prevent voters in some parts of the state the right to perform their civic responsibility on election day.

Declaring that election did not take place in all the three LGAs in Mbaise land and results were also manipulated in Oru East, as well as Ezinihitte, Alaribe noted that the governorship election was inconclusive because of the connivance between INEC and the PDP.

He called on the Police and other law enforcement agencies to investigate the allegations of election malpractice against the Commission and the opposition party in Imo.

Regarding the current status of the election, he said, Although INEC has not officially communicated to us, we are prepared to submit ourselves for the run-off election. But, we want to be sure that it will be free and fair. If INEC had done the proper thing, the run-off would have been avoided.

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APC blames inconclusive Imo gov election on INEC

Preliminary results from across the country indicate that the All Progressives Congress might win 18 or 19 of 29 states where governorship election held Saturday.

On the other hand, the Peoples Democratic Party might win in 10 or 11 states.

Our projection suggests that the opposition All Progressives Congress, which won the March 28 presidential and national assembly elections, will prevail in Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, and Kwara states.

Others are Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Sokoto Yobe States and Zamfara states.

By that likely outcome, the PDP appears set to lose Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina and Kebbi to the APC.

The PDP on the other hand will most likely win in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Plateau, Rivers and Taraba states.

Imo is difficult to call for any of the parties at this time. Results so far released put the APC ahead, but the PDP may spring a surprise at the end of collation.

If the final outcome of the election stands that way, the APC will be in control of 20 states when two of its states Edo and Osun where governorship election did not hold Saturday, are added.

The party will also nominate the federal minister who will govern the federal capital, Abuja.

On the other hand, the PDP will be in control in 15 states, given that it is presently the ruling party in Ondo, Ekiti, Bayelsa and Kogi states, where governorship election did not hold Saturday.

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Nigeria: #NigeriaDecides: Governorship Polls: APC Set to Win 18 or 19 of 29 states, PDP 10 or 11

One of the most ambitious public polls taken in Ontario in the runup to the federal election suggests Justin Trudeaus Liberals are ascendant in the countrys largest province but not yet enough to give them a good shot at winning government.

Surveying 3,000 Ontarians through a combination of land lines and cellphones, from late February through the end of March, Innovative Research Group found the Liberals with 39-per-cent support among decided voters. The Conservatives were at 37 per cent, the NDP at 17 per cent and the Green Party at 7 per cent.

Those numbers would represent a major turnaround for the Liberals after bottoming out in the 2011 election, when they received 25 per cent of Ontarios popular vote and won just 11 of its 106 seats. By the estimate of Greg Lyle, Innovative Researchs managing director, the Liberals would be on pace for between 49 and 62 of the 121 Ontario seats on the new federal map that will be used for this years vote.

Such results would likely be enough to deny Stephen Harpers Conservatives another majority government. But at the lower end of that spectrum they would need to be accompanied by significant gains elsewhere to even assure the Liberals of forming Official Opposition, let alone laying claim to the most seats nationally.

Owing to its large sample size, the survey offers a window into how the parties stack up in different regions of Ontario. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Within the city of Toronto, where a total of 646 voters were surveyed, the Liberals appear to be dominant, with the poll showing them supported by 50 per cent of decided voters next to 30 per cent for the Conservatives and just 15 per cent for the NDP. Further breakdowns show those gains coming primarily from the NDP in the citys core, and from both the Conservatives and the New Democrats closer to the city limits. With Liberal support seemingly consistent across the city, they appear well-positioned to win the vast majority of its 25 seats, although the margin of error is larger for the regional breakdowns.

In the Greater Toronto Area, widely considered to be the single most important electoral battleground in the country, the picture is more complex. In the western section of the GTA, which most notably includes the cities of Mississauga, Brampton and Oakville, the Conservatives appear to remain strong, polling at 44 per cent to the Liberals 34 per cent and the NDPs 15 per cent. But in the northern and eastern parts of the GTA which among other municipalities includes Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham and Ajax the Tories and Liberals are shown to be in a virtual tie with Conservatives slightly ahead 43 per cent and 40 per cent. (Sample sizes for the two areas were 377 and 365, respectively.)

Considering the unpopularity of the governing provincial Liberals in the economically hard-hit southwestern and south-central corners of the province, where there are 30 federal seats, Mr. Trudeaus party fared surprisingly well among the 791 Ontarians polled there running even with the Conservatives at 35 per cent each among decided voters. And the Liberals and Conservatives are in another virtual tie in eastern Ontario, at 43 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively.

In a poll with plenty of cause for concern for the NDP, responses in Northern Ontario provide more of it showing Thomas Mulcairs party sinking from 41 per cent in the past campaign to 25 per cent now, the Tories slipping less precipitously from 36 to 27 per cent and the Liberals rising from 19 to 34 per cent. There, though, a small sample size of 198 respondents means findings have a large margin of error.

Despite their improvements elsewhere in the province, though, its in the Toronto area where the Liberals have by far the most potential for gains something borne out by Innovative Research looking at groups of ridings that had similar results in the past election. The key change is that now most close races in Toronto and GTA are being won convincingly by the Liberals, Mr. Lyle said in an interview, and even some seats won by the Conservatives with wide majorities last election are now competitive.

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Federal Liberals poised to make great election gains in Ontario, poll finds