APC leads as Jonathan, Sambo, Agbaje, Ribadu, Bode George, Mimiko, Dasuki, Obanikoro, Fani-Kayode, Adams, others lose at units tree

*Jonathan loses at Aso Villa units


Some heavyweight politicians lost their polling units in yesterday’s elections.


A major loss by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the one at the two polling units in front of Aso Villa – the Presidential abode.


The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari won in the two units.
Buhari got a total of 613 votes, while Jonathan polled a total of 595 votes.


Vice President Namadi Sambo got the same treatment in the former polling unit (Kabala 005) in Kaduna where the APC received overwhelming majority of votes.


The APC scored 386 votes to beat the PDP that scored 53 votes in the presidential election. APC got 385 and 369 votes in the senate and house of assembly elections respectively while the PDP got 59 and 62 respectively.
The results were announced by the presiding officer Abdulfatah Ali.


In Lagos State Governorship candidate Jimi Agbaje’s Apapa polling unit the APC won 126 votes while PDP won 60.

Investors lose N1.18 trillion at NSE in November

Investors in the nation's bourse lost N1.18 trillion in November following sell pressure caused by drop in oil price at the global market.

Statistics from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for the period under review showed that the market capitalisation dropped by N1.18 trillion to close at N11.404 trillion against N12.579 trillion achieved in October.

The All-Share Index lost 3436.94 basis points or 9.04 per cent to close at 34,543.05 compared with 37,979.99 posted in October due to price depreciation.

A total of 9.08 billion shares worth N100.4 billion were transacted by investors in 93,875 deals against the 7.02 billion shares valued N73.56 billion traded in 85,372 deals in October.