The Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) on Saturday conducted a by-election in 15 local government areas of the state despite a subsisting court order halting the exercise. The by-election was meant to fill councillorship vacancies in 59 wards across the state. Voters were seen at several polling stations in Benin City and other locations […]
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) have related the controversies that surrounded Saturday’s by-elections as a decline in democracy under the current administration. Bolaji Abdullahi, ADC’s interim national publicity secretary, released a statement on Sunday as a reaction to the now concluded by-elections that was held in some parts of the country on the 16th of […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Garki/Babura federal constituency bye-election in Jigawa state. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Mukhtar Rabiu, the APC candidate, winner of the poll after he secured 38,449 votes. His closest rival, Isah Auwalu Manzo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), polled 13,519 votes, while Sabo Salisu of […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) on its victory at the by-elections in Zaria Kewaye State Constituency, Basawa State Constituency, and Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency which held Saturday. In a congratulatory message, the Speaker specifically felicitated the APC candidate for Zaria Kewaye, Hon. Isah Haruna Mohammed […]
The Labour Party has condemned the conduct and outcome of Saturday’s bye- elections in the country. The party described the elections as mockery of democracy and a rehearsal of possible flaw of the 2027 general election. Ken Eluma Asogwa, Senior Special, Adviser, Media to the Interim National Chairman, Labour Party, Senator Nenadi Usman on Sunday […]
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has reclaimed the mantle of leadership in Ibadan North Federal Constituency in the recently concluded by-election since 2011. The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced Fola Oyekunle as winner of the by-election on Sunday morning, having successfully collated the results from all the wards in the LG. Professor Abiodun Oluwadare, […]
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna have revealed that the N25.9 million cash seized from one of its members during Saturday’s by-election is for party logistics. Edward Masha, Kaduna PDP chairman, made the statement at a press conference on Saturday to clear the air about the alleged vote-buying going on in the party. In […]
The Kano State Police Command has arrested no fewer than 288 suspected thugs armed with dangerous weapons during Saturday’s by-election in four local government areas. Abdullahi Haruna, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, confirmed the arrests in a telephone interview with Punch. “As at 1pm today (Saturday), 288 thugs were apprehended with dangerous weapons in the […]
The Ogun police command has announced that two officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been arrested for alleged electoral manipulation in Iperu Remo. Omolola Odutola, the police spokesman, said in a statement released on Saturday that the officials were arrested during the federal constituency by-election with the outrageous sum of N2.5m in […]
The Kaduna police command along with the DSS have arrested a man with N25 million cash allegedly for vote buying in the ongoing by-election. Mansir Hassan, spokesperson for the police command in Kaduna, revealed the details to the press on Saturday as electorates casted their votes in some parts of the country. He said the […]
Peter Obi, the 2023 LP presidential candidate has urged his supporters to vote for ADC, the coalition party, in the forthcoming by-elections. Obi published this statement on his X page on Thursday ahead of Saturday’s by-elections all over the country due to the leadership crisis that has now ravaged the Labour Party. Early this month, […]
Nentawe Yilwatda, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has maintained that APC will be undefeated in Ogun state ahead of the by-election. Yilwatda made the statement on Thursday at the Gateway International Airport in Iperu, Ogun state after the party’s final campaign which held in Sagamu. Speaking ahead of the Saturday’s by-election, the […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari to jettison the plot to use the police as a tool to intimidate voters and rig the Irepodun/Ekiti/Oke-Ero/Isin Federal Constituency by-election, in Kwara State, scheduled for Saturday. The party cautioned President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to bear in mind that such a […]
Ajiya Samson Garba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the Takum 1 State Constituency By-Election conducted on Saturday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Taraba State. Our Correspondent gathered that the by-election was to fill the vacuum created at the State Assembly owing to the death of Barrister Hosea Ibi, who […]
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has said that the defeat experienced by the All Progressive Party was a lesson. He congratulated the winner of the Osun West Senatorial District by-election, Otunba Demola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Aregbesola took to his twitter account to pass his comment on the Adeleke’s victory, the […]