Tag Archives: Anambra Election

Yiaga Africa, an election watch group has said that about 76,104 voters in six local government areas of the state state may not vote  in Anambra governoship election on Saturday. The group said about 76,000 voters who got registered during the Continuous Voters Registration in the state could be disenfranchised because of delay in getting their voter cards from the ...

Gbenga Daniel, former governor of Ogun State, says he is a crisis manager, and best suited to lead the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as national chairman to regain power in 2019. Daniel is one of the aspirants eying the national chairmanship position of the party, to be determined through election at its Dec. 9 convention. He was in Kogi on ...

The Nigerian Army says it will replicate the template it adopted for its officers in the just concluded governorship election in Anambra in future polls in the country. The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Adamu Abubakar, disclosed this when he received members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Enugu State Council, on ...

  Anambra Governor, Willie Obiano, has expressed confidence that his party – the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), will win elections in other South East states. He said this in Anambra State, shortly after he was declared the winner of the governorship election on Sunday, November 19. In response to the fact that he is the only governor form APGA ...

Imo Governor, Rochas Okorocha  has congratulated Governor Willie Obiano on his re-election. Okorocha gave the congratulatory message in a statement by  his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemedo, on Monday in Owerri. The governor said that Obiano’s victory was too clear to be contested or questioned. He, therefore, advised candidates of other political parties who took part in the election to ...

John Nnia Nwodo, President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a socio cultural organisation of Igbo has congratulated Willie Obiano for his victory in the just concluded Anambra governorship election. Nwodo also congratulated Obiano’s opponents for a healthy and competitive encounter. He urged Obiano to put the campaign rhetoric apart and extend his hand of fellowship to his opponents while asking the rest ...

Some human rights activists and politicians have commended the people of Anambra for making  the November 18 governorship election successful despite threats by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB). The Secretary General of Inter-Party Advisory Council, Shola Omolola, said that the people exhibited high level of intelligence toward the election. “The turnout of voters in the election simply implies ...

Officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) have released a man who was arrested on Saturday for allegedly trying to buy votes during the Anambra governorship election. Ifedioranma Nwaana, a professor, regained his freedom hours after he was arrested and taken away by DSS officials at a polling unit located at Community Primary School, Amawbia in Awka, the state ...

Security has been fully taken care of in Anambra state. Mostly due to the threats issues by the Indigenous Poeple of Biafra (IPoB) No fewer than 36 political parties and candidates are participating in the election being conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). And election is holding in 4,608 polling units in the 21 council areas with report ...

An Octogenerian voter in Anambra, Ogechi Onwudinjo, has decried the late arrival of materials and officials of INEC in Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Onwudinjo, 82, advised INEC to strictly adhere to timing of activities on Election Day in all its future elections. Onwudinjo said at her Ahocol Phase 1 Polling Unit in Awka South Local Government Area on ...