Mr Oluwatosin Ayeni has emerged as the candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party( NNPP) for the Nov. 16 governorship election in Ondo State. The Chairman of the 2024 NNPP Governorship Primary Election Committee in Ondo State, Alhaji Yusuf Galambi, said a total of 113 delegates were accredited for...
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A former deputy governor of Ondo State, Mr Agboola Ajayi, has emerged the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Nov. 16 poll in the state. Ajayi, one of the seven aspirants that contested for the ticket, polled 264 votes and his closest co-contender, Mr...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Sept. 21 governorship election, Dr Asue Ighodalo, has advised the party to close ranks and strategise to permanently defeat Nigeria’s development nemesis. Ighodalo gave the advice at a meeting hosted by former Minister for Solid Minerals, Sen. Odion Ugbesia, leaders...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for discipline and unity among party members in Lagos State to ensure victory in the state in 2027. Mr Rahman Owokoniran, South-West Secretary of the party, made the call at the Lagos PDP Maiden Ramadan Lecture on Sunday in Lagos. The...
Russia’s elite expects President Vladimir Putin to reshuffle senior government roles after his election victory, according to reports. Sources close to the authorities said they expected younger people to be brought in, including perhaps as deputy ministers and heads of ministerial departments. The older generation of government officials...
The United States Supreme Court has allowed Donald Trump to remain on Colorado’s presidential ballot, rejecting a state supreme court decision barring him from the election because of his involvement in January 6. Justices unanimously rule that Donald Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado Trump was wrongly removed...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has determined May 29 as the date for this year’s national and provincial elections. The president has consulted with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on the election date and convened a meeting with all nine provincial premiers to discuss the state of readiness...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared Saturday’s Edo governorship primaries as inconclusive. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, said this when he spoke with newsmen in Abuja Morka said that the decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) in...
The Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, struck out the petition filed by the Action Peoples Party (APP) against the election victory of Gov. Ahmed Ododo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11 governorship poll in the state. The three-member...
A large proportion of the votes cast in the presidential and parliamentary elections in El Salvador must be recounted due to technical issues, the president of the Supreme Electoral Court said. Nearly 30% of the ballot boxes used for the presidential election and all ballot boxes used for...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Mr Peter Uzokwe of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), as the winner of the rerun election for Nnewi North, Nnewi South and Ekwusigo Federal Constituency of Anambra. The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Charles Nweke, said that Uzokwe polled 25,518 votes...
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 EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has called on the Senegalese Government to urgently choose a new date for the country’s presidential elections that was postponed. ECOWAS Commission in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said it has taken note of the...
Senegalese President Macky Sall on Saturday announced the indefinite postponement of the presidential election scheduled for February 25, just hours before official campaigning was due to start. In an address to the nation, Sall said he signed a decree abolishing a previous measure that set the date...
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...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is set to hold by-election in 39 national and state Constituencies across the country. To this end, the commission has called on the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) to pay attention to the potentials for...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he owes no apology to anybody for supporting the re-election of Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa in the November 11, 2023 off-cycle governorship poll. Jonathan said his public support for the governor was in line with the aspirations of the the majority...
The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the election of Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu state. Justice Mohammed Garba, who delivered the lead judgement described as mere allegation the statement that Mbah did not posses the National Youth Service Corp certificate, which is one of the certificate he tendered...
In the first part of this write-up, we saw how in 1983, the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), afraid of defeat, capitalised on Shehu Shagari’s perceived likeability and reversed the election timetable and started with a vote for the president. They relied on what they christened...
Is there something with the presidential system of democracy we have twice adopted for ourselves that necessitates involving the courts where judges are made to be the ultimate arbiter between contestants? In 1979, it was the judges who decided who emerged as the president between Alhaji Shehu Shagari...