The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Tuesday, November 9 for a supplementary election in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. Returning Officer for Saturday’s governorship election in the state, Professor Florence Obi, announced this in the early hours of Monday. The decision to hold supplementary elections...
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An Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ad hoc staff has absconded with 41 result sheets in Oba 1, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra state. The Local Government Collation Officer, Gabriel Odoh said this on Sunday while presenting the result of the Local Government Area at the collation...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Gombe – The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Gombe State has threaten to suspend the former state’s governor, Senator Danjuma Goje, for allegedly inciting crisis in the state. Senator Goje, who was called in Gombe during his government as ’emperor’ due to his links to...
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Charles Soludo, has reportedly defeated his main opponents, Andy Ubah of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) and Valentine Ozigbo of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in their local government areas. Mr Soludo has polled more votes than his two contenders...
The Member Representing Orumba North and South Federal Constituency, Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo, has expressed happiness that the governorship election was held in spite of initial security challenges that greeted its conduct. Ezenwankwo, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, that the election was...
Anambra Deputy Governor, Dr Nkem Okeke, has displayed his ballot paper to other voters on Saturday before casting his vote. He said that he did this to dispel the rumour making the round that he had re-defected to his former party, the All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA). “I had...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Bosco Onunkwo, has called on INEC to extend the voting deadline at the on-going Anambra governorship election beyond 2.30 p.m. “I call on INEC to give us additional three hours to accommodate the high number of people who are...
Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has expressed shock over the technology breakdown of the Bimodal Verification Accreditation (BVA) system. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been experiencing technical challenges in the use of the...
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, along with his wife, Erelu Bisi, has not anointed any candidate that will takeover from in 2022. Mr Yinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, denied an allegation by a group that the governor’s wife has anointed the Secretary to the...
Widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu has expressed worry over the dwindling political fortune of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Ojukwu made the remarks in a statement she signed on Thursday to mark the posthumous birthday of the late Biafra warlord, on Nov. 4. She...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Jime, the Gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue state in the 2019 election has urged the people of Benue South Senatorial District (Zone C) to keep up their fight to produce the Benue state Governor in 2023. He...
The newly elected Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa, Alhaji Ibrahim Bilal, has urged members and supporters of the party to be united to reclaim the governorship seat in the 2023 general elections. Bilal made the appeal while addressing party members in Ganye town, headquarters of Ganye...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Former Lagos Governor and All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has commiserated with Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong and Joseph Din’s family over the passing of the retired army captain. Asiwaju Tinubu described the late Captain Din “as an elder statesman, prominent...
Dr Nkem Okeke, Anambra Deputy Governor, said that security challenges facing Anambra residents would be tackled as a core need for peaceful co-existence of the all persons in Anambra. Okeke said that the All Progressive Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Sen. Andy Uba, has reassured him that security of lives...
In 1984 – 85, I had the misfortune of reporting events at the Special Military Tribunal sitting in Kaduna. The Second Republic had just come to grief and one state governor after another were put on trial for crimes against the Nigerian state. The governors had like all political...
A former candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the November 6 Anambra Governorship Election, Chukwuma Umeoji, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), a week to the poll. Umeoji, who is the current member of the House of Representatives representing Aguata Federal Constituency in Anambra...