Sen. Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe (PDP – Cross River), has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remained the dominant party in the state from the results of Saturday’s rerun elections in four Local Government Areas. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Chairman, senate Committee on Gas, stated...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Hon. Pogu Lawan of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has emerged winner of the By-election for the Chibok LGC State Constituency in Borno State He scored a total 9,101 votes and was returned elected. He was followed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Despite the heavy security presence and vote buying that characterised the just concluded re-run elections, electorates in Sokoto State seem to have made their preferences known as indicated in results declared by the various Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Returning Officers. The results...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The battle of supremacy between the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been settled through the ballot box on Saturday. Announcing the results for the re-run election in Akamkpa /Biase Federal Constituency and Yala/ Obudu State...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Mr Yakubu Adamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Saturday’s rerun election into the Birninkudu/Buji Federal Constituency seat. The Appeal Court had, in November 2023, declared the March 18, 2023 Birninkudu/Buji Federal Constituency election inconclusive and...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Prof. Anthony Ani, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s Ebonyi South Senatorial by-election in the state. Ani won with 46,270 votes, defeating his closest rival, Ifeanyi Eleje of APGA who garnered 3,513. Silas Onu of the PDP polled 2,783 votes and...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have shared the spoils in the court-ordered rerun election in four Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Cross River. Declaring the results in the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 4, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Guma I State Constituency in Benue, Mr Terwase Uche, has been declared winner of the rerun election by Returning Officer, Prof Julius Ikya. Ikya declared Uche as the winner of the rerun election on Saturday in Daudu, the constituency’s headquarters....
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the Ebonyi South Senatorial District rerun, Mr Ifeanyi Eleje, has described the election as “hugely flawed”. Eleje, who made the assertion on Saturday at Afikpo while speaking to newsmen, further described the process as “marred with intimidation”. “This is the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mr Shittu Ibrahim, has been declared winner of the State House of Assembly re-run election for Saki West State Constituency in Oyo State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the result of the poll on Saturday evening at the INEC Collation...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State, has said only 121, 111 registered voters possesses Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to vote at Saturday’s by-election in Surulere 1 Federal Constituency of the state. The INEC’s spokesman in Lagos State, Alhaji Taiwo Gbadegesin disclosed this in an interview...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur, has led the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign team to Chibok town in preparation for the upcoming House of Assembly by-election scheduled for Saturday. The event saw the presence of several notable APC figures, including the APC...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun has debunked alleged crisis within the party ahead of the 2026 governorship election in the state. The APC Chairman in the state, Mr Tajudeen Lawal, who debunked the reports in a statement on Thursday, urged members to...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – The Chairman of the Benue chapter of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Mr Augustine Agada, has been suspended by his Ehaje Ward 1 executives for alleged anti-party activities. The APC Ward Chairman of Ehaje Ward 1 in Ogbadibo Local Government Area (LGA) of the state,...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) has charged the Speaker of Plateau House of Assembly, Gabriel Dawang, to swear in the party’s 16 house members affirmed by the Court of Appeal as duly elected. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, made the call...
The Labour Party (LP), on Tuesday said it has the capacity to dislodge the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the coming Edo governorship election. The Party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, made this known in Abuja while addressing newsmen on some of the...
A democracy without opposition is like making an omelet without breaking eggs; or, a bird flying with one wing or one clapping with one hand. Yet, the fact is there is no opposition in the nation’s so-called democracy. Opposition political parties simply exist as platforms for power grabbers...
The Supreme Court reserved judgment in the appeal by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called Binani, against the governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintiri. The tribunal and Court of Appeal had dismissed Binani’s petition challenging the victory of Fintiri in the governorship...
The lawmaker representing Anambra South in the National Assembly, Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, has called on the people of Anambra to give him their mandate in the 2025 governorship election to enable him address the state’s leadership questions. Senator Ubah, a member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), who...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL,Sokoto Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, has called on opposition parties in the state to join hands with him towards developing the state. “‘We have no state other than Sokoto. It is all our collective responsibility to make Sokoto better. Hence I am calling on all...