Suspended ex-Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose and former Senate President Pius Anyim How Wike, others escaped suspension As the Iyorchia Ayu-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) continues its offensive against those it called ‘dissidents group’ and anti-party elements, the 16-member National Working Committee (NWC) of the party has become polarised. It was learned that at the […]
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Ahead of the November Kogi Governorship election, Sen. Yakubu Oseni (APC-Kogi), has said that he would turn the fortunes of the state around if given the mandate. He made this known while addressing a news conference in Abuja on Thursday. Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo States’ off-season governorship election will be held in November. Oseni, who […]
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insists on free, fair election The campaign team of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV), the Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos state, has said it will halt the distribution of promotional materials at midnight on Thursday. It said the move would be in compliance with the election guidelines. “We wish to let the public know that we […]
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Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour To put to rest the allegation surrounding the legitimacy of the Labour Party’s (LP) candidate for Lagos governorship election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, a team of legal practitioners representing the standard-bearer, has dismissed claims by a former governorship aspirant, Ifagbemi Awamaridi, that he was the authentic flagbearer […]
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Senators Chimaroke Nnamani and Ibrahim Shekarau are both former two-term governors of Enugu and Kano State. The two former governors, who represented their respective districts in the senate, recently joined hands to bring the operation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) into further public scrutiny. Both men had aspired to return to the Red […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State on Monday said that it would not lose sleep over serial decampees who it described as political prostitutes. In a statement by its State spokesman, Mr Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, the party said that it was not disturbed by the exit of Mr Banji Okunomo and Mr Solomon […]
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President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu displaying his Certificate of Return with President Muhammadu Buhari Tracking Tinubu’s chequered battles Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in the early hours of March 1, 2023 returned as the winner of the presidential poll held on Saturday February 25. That brought to fruition the former Lagos State governor’s life-long journey […]
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The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result of the Saturday presidential election. The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba in Abuja on Thursday, said it had commenced action to seek redress in court. It also rejected the declaration of the Presidential Candidate […]
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There was relative calm in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital and other places, where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, conducted the rescheduled presidential, Senate and House of Representatives elections in 141 polling units. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, had postponed elections in the 141 polling units in Yenagoa, over disruption of electoral processes in […]
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Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has described tomorrow’s general elections as a milestone in the nation’s democratic development. He said this in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Malam Olawale Rasheed, on Friday in Osogbo. Urging every eligible citizen to actively participate in the exercise which he said would go a long way in […]
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