Media mogul Alistair Soyode has continued his enlightenment on creating awareness for Nigeria’s coming 2019 election through the YES Nigeria Movement with some political stakeholders in Nigeria as part of the strategic roles the nation’s electorates holds, to be decisive, positive and focus on solution orientation. Mr Soyode who paid a courtesy visit to the […]
By Femi Falana Since the return to democratic rule in 1999, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has conducted the general elections on a two-tier or three-tier basis. Even though the National Assembly had attempted in the past to use the Electoral Act to alter the sequence of elections fixed by the INEC, it did […]
* We’ll take action at appropriate time- INEC * Jega backs legal option* NASS action illegal- Falana * We stand by our decision on reordering of elections – Senate Indications emerged on Sunday night that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may seek legal redress over the National Assembly reordering of 2019 elections timetable earlier […]
…Insists 2019 elections will be difficult to rig The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disassociated itself from the current videos and pictures in the social media platforms, showing under-aged persons thumb-printing ballot papers and voting in an election. This is even as the Imo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Francis Chukwuemeka Ezeonu, has said […]
In the countdown to the 2019 General Elections, in the course of His rescue mission and a bid to prevent unprecedented political upheavals in the country, God in His infinite mercies may decide to arrest and throw some political juggernauts troubling the peace and progress of this country into His political dungeon and allow them […]
* He should respect existing structure, Kwara Chairman tells NWC No, it is not true, says Gov. Ahmed Following fears and uncertainty that the alleged return of Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will change the party structure in the state, the Kwara State chapter of the party has […]
As the intrigues and politicking for the 2019 presidency is gathering momentum, the Special Adviser to President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will not seek re-election if he considers his health as a challenge. Although Buhari is yet to speak publicly about his reelection bid, his supporters […]
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to disqualify Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State for the 2019 governorship election over alleged violation of the electoral act. The party in a release signed by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani and made available to […]
* Says support for Adesina, confirmation of ‘belonging to everybody’ As the battle for the 2019 presidential election gradually becomes more interesting, especially with the recent resignation of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the All Progressives Congress (APC), the uncertainty about the future political ambition of President Muhammadu Buhari, who had hitherto had been […]
* Anambra guber: We don’t arrest but strive to win election Ebony State Governor Dave Umahi has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to seek re-election in 2019. Umahi is a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and contested on the platform of the PDP. The governor spoke on Thursday during an interview with the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has no option than to re-contest the presidential election in 2019 in view of his performance in the past two years, the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawal, has said. Lawal stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Buhari in Abuja, on Friday. The Senator, […]
The 2019 General Elections are approaching and Nigerians are waiting, with their voter cards, to perform their civic rights. The Independent Electoral Commission has assured Nigerians that it has found a solution to the Card Reader machines challengers witnessed in 2019. It is another critical year for the nation’s democracy and the card reader machine […]
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu has dissociated himself from fake campaign posters purporting to show him in the running for the 2019 governorship elections in his home Delta State, sighted in Abuja. In a press statement issued by the media office of the ministry, Kachikwu claimed to have “absolutely no knowledge […]