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Labour Party candidate for Surulere 1 Constituency, Olumide Oworu, has accused th Independent National Electoral Commission of omitting his name on the final list of House of Assembly candidates in the recently concluded election. It will be recalled that Oworu, lost the election to the Progressives Congress candidate, Desmond Elliotm Speaking in a statement he released via his Twitter handle ...

Labour Party candidate for the Lagos State gubernatorial poll, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has vowed to seek redress in court if the outcome of the ongoing election does not favour him. The Labour Party candidate, who spoke shortly after casting his vote at his polling unit 045, Oshifila/Abule Igbira in Anifowose, Ikeja, alleged that there are incidences of vote suppression by thugs ...

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has exercised his democratic civil rights by voting vote at the his polling unit at PO 045 in Anifowoshe, Ikeja, Lagos State. It should be noted that he is  one of the major candidate for the election slugging it out with the incumbent Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressive ...

About 3200 party members have dumped the Labour Party (LP) for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Obingwa and Isiala-Ngwa South Local Government Areas of Abia State. In Obingwa, the decampees numbering over 3000 and led by Hon. Maduka Akpulonu, Director General of the party’s Senatorial candidate in the February 25th election decamped. They were received at Osusu Amaukwa ...

The Lagos chapter of the Accord Party (AP) has opted out of its alliance with Labour Party (LP). The party also said it is endorsing Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Saturday’s election. Lagos Accord Party chairman Dele Olajide said the party opted out of the alliance because its contributions to Peter Obi’s victory in Lagos ...

Popular pan Yoruba group, Oodua Youth Parliament (OYP) has disowned the factional Afenifere group led by Supo Shonibare, following the endorsement of Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour in Lagos. The group said the Factional Afenifere group does not represent nor speak for the Yoruba race. Frowning at factional Afenifere’s support for Rhodes-Vivour, OYP also warned the factional group ...

One of the chieftains of the Labour Party and a top member of  Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of selling votes to the highest bidder. Okonkwo insisted that Nigerians refused to sell their votes and voted their conscience. He disclosed this in a statement via his Twitter handle on Wednesday. The ...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode has explained why Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu should be re-elected. Fani-Kayode made the remark while accusing the Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, of running an anti-Yoruba, pro-Igbo campaign. In a series of tweets, the former Aviation Minister, said the LP candidate was part of those who burnt down buses ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won two of the three senatorial districts in last Saturday’s election in Imo State. Labour Party (LP) won one seat to become the main opposition party in the state, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) failed to clinch any of the seats. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that APC won the Imo ...

Three days to the election, Mr Oyibo Chukwu, candidate of the Labour Party in Saturday’s Enugu East Senatorial District election has been assassinated. Chukwu was killed at Amechi, Awkunanaw local government area of Enugu while returning from a campaign rally. He was murdered alongside five of supporters. The killers were also said to have burnt him and his supporters who ...