By EMEKA CHIKWE, Port-Harcourt – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers says it will issue Certificates of Return to the Governor-elect, Deputy Governor-elect and State House of Assembly members-elect on March 29. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr .Johnson Alalibo, made this known on Monday in a...
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By DANJUMA JOSEPh, Lafia – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State has advised the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to seek redress in the court of law if dissatisfied with the outcome of the governorship election in the state. APC in a statement signed by the party...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said he is in support of the suspension of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu. The Executive Committee of the PDP in Igyorov Ward of Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, suspended Ayu on Sunday, after...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kebbi says calls for declaration of the governorship election result is an affront to the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Alhaji Abubakar Gari-Malam, an All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart in the state, has called on the INEC to declare the...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The police in Nasarawa State have banned all forms of protests in order to forestall the breakdown of law and order in the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Ramhan Nansel, disclosed this in a statement issued in Lafia on Sunday. According...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is trying to cover its tracks after rigging the March 18 Delta governorship election. Dr Timi Tonye, the Deputy Director, Media and Publicity, Delta APC campaign organisation, said this in a statement on Sunday in Asaba....
A United State of America -based business tycoon and philanthropist, Dr Magdalene Agada, has described Friday’s Abuja Appeal Court victory of Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun, as well deserved victory. Agada’s felicitation was conveyed in a statement issued from New York, U.S.A. and was made available to newsmen in...
INEC assured in Abuja on Saturday that it would conduct credible supplementary governorship election in Adamawa that would be the pride of Nigerians and of the international community. INEC’s Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye, gave the assurance when some women staged a protest at the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday in Abuja called on INEC to review the March 18 Ogun governorship election result. Its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba told a news conference that the party rejected the declaration of Gov. Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as...
The people jubilated on Saturday, as the Delta Governor-Elect and Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori stormed the Ughelli Motor Park, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the State. Oborevwori, on his way to his Osubi residence for the first time after he was declared...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has petitioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the outcome of the March 18 governorship election in Delta. The petition was signed by Mr Godwin Anaughe, the state APC Director, Election and Strategy on Saturday in Asaba. Anaughe said that the collation of...
Alhaji lbrahim Ajia, the PDP candidate for the llorin-West/Asa federal constituency in the Feb. 25 general elections in Kwara, has withdrawn his legal process against the APC and the INEC in the spirit of Ramadan. Ajia made the declaration in a statement made available to the News Agency of...
The remains of the Sokoto state Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Usman Suleiman, who died on Friday has been laid to rest. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Suleiman, a traditional title holder of Danmadamin Isa died as a result of brief illness in Sokoto. The funeral...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, Friday evening, dismissed an appeal by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate, All Progressives Congress (APC), and his vice, Kassim Shettima, in the Feb. 25 election. A three-member panel headed by Justice James Abundaga, in a...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over alleged directives aimed at frustrating the procedure for issuance of Certified True Copies (CTC) of form EC8A. The Spokesman, PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Charles Aniagwu, stated this at a news conference on Friday in...
A former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, says he proudly supported the APC candidate, Chief Francis Nwifuru to win the March 18 governorship election in Ebonyi. Anyim made the assertion on Friday while reacting to his suspension alongside others by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC)...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has congratulated Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun on his victory at the Appeal Court on Friday. Okowa, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, said the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which nullified Adeleke’s...
The Enugu PDP Campaign Council has dismissed the statement credited to opposition parties rejecting the outcome of March 18 governorship poll in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APGA Governorship Candidate, Mr Frank Nweke, and his LP counterpart, Chijioke Edeoga, had in separate statements...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has dedicated his victory at the appeal court, which affirmed him him as winner of the July 16, 2022 governorship election, to God and the people of the state. Governor Adeleke in a statement on Friday in Osogbo, said...
The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun on his Appeal Court’s victory. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Friday, annulled the Osun Governorship Election Tribuna’s decision and upheld...