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2007 Nigerian House Of Representatives Elections In Kwara State
The 2007 Nigerian House of Representatives elections in Kwara State was held on April 21, 2007, to elect members of the House of Representatives to represent Kwara State, Nigeria. Overview Summary Results Asa/Ilorin West PDP candidate Suleiman Nimota O won the election, defeating other party candidates. Baruten/Kaiama PDP candidate Maimunat Adaji Hajiya Maimuna Usman Adaji or Maimunat Adaji (c.1957 – 2019) was a Nigerian politician. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2003. She was elected again in 2011 for the All Nigeria Peoples Party. Life She was an educatio ... won the election, defeating other party candidates. Edu/Moro/Patigi PDP candidate Aliyu Ahman-Pategi won the election, defeating other party candidates. Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/Oke-ero PDP candidate Makanjuola G.P won the election, defeating other party candidates. Ilorin East/South PDP candidate Abdul-Wahab Oladimeji Isa won the election, defea ... [...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 of Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwara State
Kwara State ( yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Kwárà), is a state in Western Nigeria, bordered to the east by Kogi State, to the north by Niger State, Niger state, and to the south by Ekiti State, Ekiti, Osun State, Osun, and Oyo State, Oyo states, while its western border makes up part of the Benin–Nigeria border, international border with Benin Republic. Its capital is the city of Ilorin and the state has 16 Local government areas of Nigeria, local government areas. Of the 36 states of Nigeria, Kwara is the List of Nigerian states by area, ninth largest in area, but the List of Nigerian states by population, sixth least populous, with an estimated population of about 3.2 million as at 2016. Geographically, Kwara state is split between the West Sudanian savanna in the west, and the Guinean forest–savanna mosaic List of ecoregions in Nigeria, ecoregion in the rest of the state. Important geographic features of the state include rivers, with the Niger River, Niger flowing along the norther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Nigeria Peoples Party
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (abbr. ANPP) was a political party in Nigeria. Under the leadership of Late Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke who was its vice presidential candidate to General Muhammadu Buhari in the 2007 presidential elections. The party won a paltry 32.2% of the vote behind ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Buhari was the ANPP candidate in the 2003 presidential election, with Chuba Okadigbo as the running mate taking second place and about 18% of the vote according to official results."Huge win for Nigeria's Yar'Adua" BBC News, April 23, 2007. The party assumed a new leadership following its September 2010 national convention in Abuja. A successful convention was held at [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incumbent
The incumbent is the current holder of an 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 action; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maimunat Adaji
Hajiya Maimuna Usman Adaji or Maimunat Adaji (c.1957 – 2019) was a Nigerian politician. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2003. She was elected again in 2011 for the All Nigeria Peoples Party. Life She was an educationalist who owned a school and was a politician in the Fourth Nigerian Republic. Adaji lived in Kaduna for the better part of her lifetime who represented Baruten/Kaiama federal constituency between 2003 and 2011. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2003. She was a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) who won her election in a People's Democratic Party (PDP) party dominated area. Adaji served as deputy chairperson of the Internal Affairs committee led by West Idahosa. In 2011 she was elected to the House of Representatives. Other women elected that year included Suleiman Oba Nimota, Folake Olunloyo, Martha Bodunrin, Betty Okogua-Apiafi, Rose Oko and Nkoyo Toyo Nkoyo Esu Toyo (born November 5, 1958) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliyu Ahman-Pategi
Aliyu Ahman Bahago (born 31 December 1964), is a Nigerian politician. He is the member of the federal house of representatives for EduMoro. Early life His father was former Minister of Health and Agriculture Ahman Pategi, during Ahmadu Bello, reign. He attended primary school Patigi, and had a WASC in Government Secondary School Ilorin 1976 -81. He completed Basic studies 1981–82. He obtained his BS'c on International Studies in Ahmadu Bello University1982-85. And his MS'c in Political Economy and Development Studies in University of Abuja, 2000–02. Career He started as Chief Executive Officer for Platform Nigeria Limited, in Ahmann Patigi Farms. He served as Director at Tranex and Branch Chairman of Kwara State Red Cross Society. Aliyu Ahman Was Member Federal House of Representative at National, He was three time member of Edu Moro, Pategi Pategi or Patigi is a town and Local government in Kwara State, Nigeria with the headquarters located at the town. The town is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
