President Bola Tinubu has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the path to victory in the September 2024 gubernatorial election in Edo State. The president expressed the optimism while presenting the party’s flag to the state gubernatorial candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and his running mate, Hon. Dennis ...
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has declared that there was nothing unusual in members of the legislative arm disagreeing over issues during plenary. Speaking with newsmen yesterday after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, Akpabio stressed that despite different positions held by senators, majority ...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu has formally reacted to the claim by the Resident Electoral Commissioner Bayelsa State, Mr. Obo Effanga, that results of the off-season Bayelsa state governorship elections would be collated manually. Effanga was reported to have stated that the Independent National ...
Atiku, in the motion he filed through his team of lawyers led by Chief Chris Uche, SAN, said the evidence he is seeking to tender before the apex court, would establish his allegation that President Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, submitted forged documents to the Independent National ...
In what appears to be a preemptive move against destabilization, the Senate leadership on Tuesday pushed through an amendment to its standing rules.Under the amended rule, only ranking members can stand for elections and be voted into the office of President and Deputy President of the Senate. This is coming ...
Over 241, 715 Permanent Voter Cards have yet to be collected by the voters in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states two weeks to the October 9, 2023 deadline issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the collection of the cards ahead of the November 11 off-cycle governorship polls in ...
The court of appeal in Edo state has affirmed Julius Abure as the national chairman of the Labour Party (LP). Delivering judgment in the appeal marked CA/B/93/2023 and filed by Lucky Shaibu, a chieftain of the party, the appellate court presided over by three justices, unanimously upheld the decision of ...
The chairmen of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have rejected the recent dissolution of the party’s executives in seven states by the National Working Committee (NWC). The aggrieved chairmen on Thursday described the dissolution as “gross abuse of power” and”unacceptable.”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NNPP’s ...
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has asked politicians in the state not to prepare for violence in the November 11 governorship election, saying the poll is about votes and not guns. Governor Diri also urged his opponents to contest for the ballots and not bullets. His Chief Press Secretary, Mr. ...
The Commandant General (CG) of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has summoned the Adamawa State Commandant of the Corps, Muhammad Bello, to the Corps’ National Headquarters to explain the role he played in the just concluded election in the state. A statement by the ...
