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2019 Nigerian House Of Representatives Elections In Abia State
The 2019 Nigerian House of Representatives elections in Abia State was held on February 23, 2019, to elect members of the House of Representatives to represent Abia State, Nigeria. Overview Summary Results Aba North/Aba South A total of 10 candidates registered with the Uzo Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. APGA candidate Ossy Prestige won the election, defeating PDP Uzo Azubuike and 8 other party candidates. Prestige received 54.43% of the votes, while Azubuike received 34.25%. Arochukwu/Ohafia A total of 16 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. PDP candidate Uko Nkole won the election, defeating APC Nnamdi Iro Orji and 14 other candidates. Nkole received 34.67% of the votes, while Oji received 33.30%. Bende A total of 11 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. APC candidate Benjamin Kalu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives (Nigeria)
The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate is the upper chamber. The House of Representatives has 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the plurality (or first-past-the-post) system. Members serve four-year terms. The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the house. Nigerian state delegations The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, assumes a National Assembly for the federation which consist of a senate and a House of Representatives. The senate consist of three senate members from each Nigerian state and one senate member from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. There must be three hundred and sixty members in total, representing constituencies for the Federal House of Representatives. Members (since 1979) *Members ** List of members of the House of Representatives of Nigeria, 1979–1992 ** List of members of the House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abia State
Abia State ( ig, Ȯha Abia) is a state in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, it is bordered to the north and northeast by the states of Enugu, and Ebonyi, Imo State to the west, Cross River State to the east, Akwa Ibom State to the southeast, and Rivers State to the south. It takes its name from the acronym for four of the state's most populated regions: Aba, Bende, Isuikwuato, and Afikpo. The state capital is Umuahia while the largest city and commercial centre is Aba. Abia is the 32nd largest in area and 27th most populous with an estimated population of over 3,720,000 as of 2016. Geographically, the state is divided between the Niger Delta swamp forests in the far south and the drier Cross–Niger transition forests with some savanna in the rest of the State. Other important geographical features are the Imo and Aba Rivers which flow along the Abia's western and southern borders, respectively. Modern-day Abia State has been inhabited for years by various eth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Progressives Congress
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. This marked the first time in Nigerian history that an opposition party unseated a governing party and power was transferred peacefully. In 2015, the APC won the majority of seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives, though it fell shy of winning a super-majority to override the ability of PDP to block legislation. During Buhari's first term, waves of defections led the party to lose its federal legislative majorities in 2018, with both Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara among the dozens of lawmakers that defected to the PDP. Nonetheless, Buhari was reelected in the 2019 general elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Progressives Grand Alliance
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is a political party in Nigeria. Electoral history At the legislative elections held on 12 April 2003, the party won 1.4% of popular votes and 2 of 360 seats in the House of Representatives of Nigeria but no seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections of 19 April 2003, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, won 3.3% of the vote. In gubernatorial elections of April 2011, Chief Rochas Okorocha (APGA) was elected governor of Imo state, polling 15% more votes than incumbent governor Ikedi Ohakim (PDP). An APGA candidate was first elected as governor of Anambra state. In February 2013, a faction of the party merged with the Action Congress of Nigeria, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, and the Congress for Progressive Change The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) was a political party founded in Nigeria in 2009 in preparation for the April 2011 elections. It was the 63rd political party to be founded in the country. In Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria)
The Peoples Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every presidential election between 1999 and 2011 and was, until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic, although sometimes amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. History In 1998, the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria nominated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May 1999. In the legislative election held on 12 April 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incumbent
The incumbent is the current holder of an official, office or position, usually in relation to an election. In an election for president, the incumbent is the person holding or acting in the office of president before the election, whether seeking re-election or not. In some situations, there may not be an incumbent at time of an election for that office or position (ex; when a new electoral division is created), in which case the office or position is regarded as vacant or open. In the United States, an election without an incumbent is referred to as an open seat or open contest. Etymology The word "incumbent" is derived from the Latin verb ''incumbere'', literally meaning "to lean or lay upon" with the present participle stem ''incumbent-'', "leaning a variant of ''encumber,''''OED'' (1989), p. 834 while encumber is derived from the root ''cumber'', most appropriately defined: "To occupy obstructively or inconveniently; to block fill up with what hinders freedom of motion or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossy Prestige
Ossy Chinedu Prestige (24 January 1965 – 6 February 2021) was a Nigerian businessman and politician who served in the 8th House of Representatives. Ossy Prestige was a member of the APGA and has served as the House of Representatives member for Aba North/Aba South Nigeria Federal constituency of Abia State since 2015. Prestige was a member representing Aba North/Aba South federal constituency in the House of Representatives died on February 6, 2021, in Germany, at the age of 56. Background Hon. Prestige Ossy hailed from the Agboji community of Abiriba in Ohafia L.G.A of Abia State. He held a B.Sc degree in Government and Public Administration from the Abia State University, Uturu, an MBA in Shipping and Logistics from the Lloyds Maritime Academy London, United Kingdom, and an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Public Administration from Commonwealth University in Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uko Nkole
Uko Ndukwe Nkole (born 20/10/1975 in Ozu Abam Arochukwu, Abia State) is a Nigerian politician and member of the Nigerian National Assembly. Nkole was the representative from Arochukwu/Ohafia in the Federal House of Representative in the 8th and 9th assemblies. He did not contest for reelection to the House of Assembly in 2023. Early life and education Uko Ndukwe Nkole was born on 20 October 1975 to Chief Emmanuel Ndukwe Nkole and Madam Nkole. His father was a senior manager at the Central Bank of Nigeria., Nkole attended both Government College Umuahia and Ovukwu Secondary school, where he received his junior and senior school certificates in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1999, in geography at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He also received a postgraduate diploma from the Nigerian Town Planning Institute in 2008, an M.Sc. in Environmental Management 2019 University of Nigeria Nsukka, and a PhD in view. Nkole is also an alumnus of RIPA - Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nnenna Elendu Ukeje
Nnenna Ijeoma Elendu Ukeje is a Nigerian politician who was the representative for Bende Federal Constituency, Abia State, Nigeria. Having had a successful career in the private sector, Nnenna was elected to the House of Representatives in 2007, She was re-elected to the position on 29 May 2011 and also served as the Chairman house committee on foreign affairs. In the 2015 general elections she was also re-elected to the house of representative and once again appointed as the house committee chairman on foreign affairs. Background Ukeje is from Alayi, Abia State and attended Federal Government Girls' College, Owerri, Imo State. She also attended the University of Benin, Edo State before graduating from the University of Lagos with a bachelor's degree in education. Ukeje worked in the hotel management industry. Her father Sunday Elendu-Ukeje was a pilot with the Nigerian Air Force and Nigerian Airways prior to his retirement. Her mother, Roseline Ukeje, served as Chief Judge o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Kalu
Benjamin Okezie Kalu, is a Nigerian politician and a member of the House of Representatives in the 9th Nigeria National Assembly, representing Bende federal constituency, Abia State. He is currently the spokesperson of the House of Representatives and the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs. Life, education and political career Benjamin Okezie Kalu graduated from the University of Calabar, where he served as a student representative at twenty three years. At twenty nine years, he served as the national chapter of the PDP in diaspora. He served as the youngest local government chairman of Bende, Abia State, Nigeria at the age of thirty one. At thirty four years, he served as the senior special adviser to the then governor of Abia State Orji Uzor Kalu on local government and chieftaincy affairs, before becoming the senior special adviser to the governor on Millennium Development Goals and international relations at the age of thirty five. Kalu started his poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nkeiruka Onyejeocha
Nkeiruka Chidubem Onyejocha (born 23 November 1969) is a Nigerian politician and a ranking lawmaker in Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives. She represents Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia State. Onyejocha is an active member of the Nigeria federal parliament and often contributes brilliantly to debates on critical national issues in the house. She has sponsored several bills and moved motions that have improved the lives of ordinary citizens and help safeguard their rights. In 2017 she sponsored a bill that makes emergency treatment of victims of gunshot obligatory and compulsory for hospitals without demanding or delaying treatment to first obtain police reports before commencing treatment in emergency situations. Onyejocha was first elected in 2007 on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP then Nigeria’s ruling party. She defected to All Progressives Congress, APC in 2018 after coming under intense pressure from her former party leaders to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent National Electoral Commission
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was established in 1998 and is the electoral body which oversees elections in Nigeria. History Regulation and administration of elections The administration of democratic elections in Nigeria dates back to the period before Independence when the Electoral Commission of Nigeria(ECN) was inaugurated in 1958 to conduct the 1959 federal elections. Prior to 1958, regional laws and government regulated and conducted elections. ECN was headed by an expatriate, Ronald Edward Wraith and four Nigerian members representing each region and the Federal Capital Territory of Lagos. The Federal Electoral Commission (FEC), established in 1960 conducted the immediate post-independence federal and regional elections of 1964 and 1965. Prior to the conduct of the 1964 election, the Chief Electoral Officer, Kofo Abayomi resigned and some party officials from the NCNC and Action Group doubted the credibility of a free and fair election. The elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
