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Political parties in Jigawa State signed a peace accord on Tuesday ahead of the Buji/Birnin Kudu Federal Constituency rerun election. Two political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressive Congress, APC, signed the peace accord organised by the Jigawa State Police Command. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has scheduled Saturday, February 3, 2024, for a rerun ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately commence the process of conducting fresh elections in the 27 constituencies in Rivers State that have become vacant because of the defections in the Rivers State House of Assembly. PDP asserted that by defecting from the party to the All Progressives Congress, APC, the ...

Projection emerged that the Senator representing Edo Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Monday Okpebholo, popularly known as ‘Akpakomiza’ is likely to clinch the 2024 All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket in Edo State. The outcome of the independent opinion poll conducted by the Esan Alliance Movement (EAM) for all the governorship aspirants in the state, which results were ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has declared inconclusive the last governorship election in Zamfara State which produced Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner. A three-member panel of the court held that there was ample evidence that the election process was not concluded in Maradun Local Government Area and some polling units in Birnin-Magaji and Bukyun ...

Elections will not hold in 40 polling units in the November 11 governorship elections in Bayelsa and Imo states, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said. The commission, in a statement by the National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, Sam Olumelun, said that elections will not be held in those polling units because there are no registered ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is certain of winning the November 11 Kogi governorship election through free, fair and credible election. Mr Kingsley Fanwo, the spokesperson for the state APC governorship campaign council, stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Lokoja. According to reports, Fanwo was reacting to insinuations that the party was distributing free recharge cards ...

Bayelsa State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva, has said the November 11 poll will not just be an election, but also a liberation of ‘Bayelsans’ from the concentration camp such a great state has been reduced to. The former minister of state for Petroleum Resources and the state leader of the APC urged Bayelsa ...

No fewer than 2,300 soldiers will be deployed for the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State. The Imo Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Professor Sylvia Agu, disclosed thisduring a media round table, organized in Owerri for journalists, by the International Press Centre, IPC, in collaboration with the European Union, EU. Her words: “Insecurity, no doubt, remains an issue. It ...

The Chairman House Committee on Appropriations, Hon Aliyu Muktar Betara, has emerged as the preferred choice to become the next Speaker, according to an opinion poll. In the survey conducted by Parliament Inc, respondents identified Betara as their favourite to succeed Femi Gbajabiamila among other aspirants. In a statement made public on Friday, the organisation claimed hat the Borno lawmaker ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the collation of Saturday’s supplementary governorship election in Adamawa State. National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, Barrister Festus Okoye said on the Commission’s Twitter handle that the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Adamawa state and the Returning Officer have been summoned to Abuja with immediate effect. This followed the premature announcement of ...