Observer groups accredited for the Osun Governorship Election have commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the successful and peaceful conduct of the re-run exercise across the seven polling units in the state. The leadership of the group, Kalu Victor, gave the commendation during a post election news conference on Thursday in Osogbo. Victor said, “The electoral umpire had ...

Rabiu Kwankwaso, former Kano Governor and PDP Presidential Aspirant, said he will “easily beat President Muhamadu Buhari” if given his party’s ticket to face the APC candidate in 2019. Kwankwaso, who spoke on Thursday in Jos, during a consultation visit to the North-Central state, said that he had the electoral value to wrestle power from the APC. “I come from a ...

Bello Ahmed, the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police in charge of the Osun governorship re-run election in Olede in Ife South Local Government, has said that Security Agents were monitoring the issue of vote-buying. Ahmed, while speaking with journalists at Adereti polling Unit 12, ward 7 in Olode, said that anyone caught buying votes would be arrested. He, however, said ...

The Secretary to the Government of Federation, Boss Mustapha, has visited Iyiola Omisore in Ile-Ife. Mustapha came with Ekiti Governor-elect, Kayode Fayemi, who has been to the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Governorship Aspirant, Omisore’s house, three times in the last 24 hours. Mustapha’s visit came after another visit by an APC Delegation, comprising four state governors, Fayemi and the National ...

David Olukoga, an Aide to former Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, and Chairman, Edo State Traffic Management Agency (ESTMA), on Wednesday, formally defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Olukoga led several of his supporters, majority of who were youths, to the PDP Secretariat. They were received by Dan Orbih, the party’s State Chairman as well ...

Lagos Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday expressed his readiness to participate in Saturday’s Primary Election where members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, across the state are expected to choose the party’s flagbearer for the 2019 governorship election through Direct Primaries. The governor said in seeking re-election, he was approaching the founding fathers and teeming members of the party with ...

Magnus Abe, an All Progressives Congress, APC,  Governorship Aspirant in Rivers has faulted the decision of the party’s  National Working Committee (NWC) supporting Indirect Governorship Primaries. Abe made the assertion in Port Harcourt on Tuesday while reacting to the NWC’s approval of Indirect Primaries in Rivers. The Aspirant, who represents Rivers South-East in the Senate, said that the NWC’s decision ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, National Working Committee (NWC) has approved both the Direct and Indirect mode of Primaries for its governorship election scheduled for Saturday, September 29, in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This was contained in a statement issued by Yekini Nabena, the APC National Publicity Secretary, on Tuesday in Abuja. Nabena, however, said ...

The APC Campaign Council for the Osun Governorship Election has urged voters in the areas where the state’s election rerun will hold on Thursday to ignore the “  ranting’’  of the PDP and turn out en masse to vote for the ruling party.” A statement issued in Abuja by the Chairman of the Council’s Media Committee, Lai Mohammed, said the ...

An Owerri High Court presided over by Justice Benjamin Iheaka on Tuesday nullified the impeachment of Imo Deputy  Governor,  Eze Madumere. Iheaka, in his verdict, said the seven-man Panel set up by the Chief Judge of Imo,  Justice Pascal Nnadi, to investigate allegations against Madumere erred in its  duty. He said the Panel did not comply with the provisions of  Section ...