The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the first runner up in the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor of Sokoto State as the party’s candidate in 2019 governorship election. Confirming Tambuwal’s nomination, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, INEC, Mr Festus Okoye said his emergence as […]
Ekiti State Police Command has paraded 27 persons it arrested for electoral related offences in the just concluded July 14 governorship election in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, Mr Bello Ahmed, stated this while parading the suspected electoral offenders in Ado-Ekiti on Friday. He added that 11 out of the 27 […]
The Governor of Kebbi State and Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Campaign Council Ekiti State, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, ahead the forthcoming Governorship election in the state said the team is working hard to realize its campaign by winning the election. Governor Bagudu said that the Campaign Council which was set up by the immediate […]
All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in the South-west have restated their support for the party’s gubernatorial candidate in the July 14 Ekiti Governorship election, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and condemned a court case allegedly instituted by one of the defeated aspirants of the party in the state, Chief Segun Oni. They said the decision to support […]
A fresh crisis is brewing in the camp of the Osun State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC), over who succeeds outgoing Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, in the September 22, 2018 governorship election in the State. The crisis is not a physical one but crisis of wisdom against the interest of one person who […]
Chieftain of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Chairman of the Party in Osun State, Alhaji Ademola Ishola has boasted that the party would uproot the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) from power in the September 22, 2018 governorship election. Ademola in a chat with The Daily Times in Osogbo, at the inauguration of the […]
Olusegun Mimiko, the immediate past Governor of Ondo state has been questioned to account for the fund raised by the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2016 governorship election in the state. A group, the Peoples Democratic Party Support Group (PSG) queried Mr. Mimiko in a statement to reporters in Akure on […]
Ekiti State deputy governor, Prof Kolapo Olusola has described the comment attributed to the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi over the forthcoming governorship election in the State as an empty boast. Fayemi had allegedly recently threatened that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will use every power to capture Ekiti State in […]
Gives PDP govt red card Former Governor of Ekiti State and Minister of Steel and Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi (PhD) has issued the Peoples Democratic party(PDP) government in the state ‘quite notice,’ as he issued red card to it at the weekend. Fayemi who announced his intention to contest for the July 14 governorship […]
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has been urged to incorporate both his supporters and the losers in the last governorship election so as to move the state forward. The traditional ruler of Nawfia in Njikoka Local Government Area of the state, Igwe Chijioke Nwankwo, who gave the advice, said for the Governor to have […]
Governor Obiano has expressed gratitude to President Muhammad Buhari for living up to its promise in providing enabling environment for a credible democratic process during governorship election in the state. Obiano stated this while delivering his acceptance speech at his residence, Aguleri, Anambra East local government area. He said, ” My first and deepest gratitude […]
Against the backdrop of the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State slated for Saturday and the need to prevent any security breach around the Niger Bridge linking Asaba, Delta State to Onitsha, Anambra State, the Commissioner of Police, Delta State Command, Zanna Ibrahim, has ordered the restriction of vehicular movements through the Niger Bridge with […]
The candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) in the November 18, 2017 governorship election in Anambra State, Comrade Akunwata Ejoh Ojiba, has revealed why his party refused to join in what he described as campaign rallies war ahead of the poll. The ACPN had adopted a noiseless door-to-door, person-to-person, and community-to-community campaign […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has come out to state that none of the sensitive materials meant for the November 18th Governorship election in Anambra State is missing. This clarification is on the heels of a media publications where a chairman of one of the political parties contesting for the Anambra elections alleged that two […]
By Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti Ahead of the 2018 Governorship election in Ekiti State, the All Progressives Party, (APC) has described the annointed candidate of Governor Ayo Fayose, his Deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola as no match to any of its aspirants in the state. Specifically, the party dressed down the anointed candidate of Fayose for […]
John Ndu The security agencies in Anambra state have expressed their readiness to conduct the Governorship Election scheduled for Nov. 18 in the state. The Chairman of INEC/Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security and Commissioner for Police in the state, Mr Garba Umar gave the indication shortly after a meeting of the Committee at the […]
The All Progressives Congress candidate in the just-concluded governorship election in Taraba State, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, has rejected the results of the poll as announced by INEC on Sunday. Addressing a press conference in Jalingo, shortly after the announcement of the results, Alhassan described the entire elections process as a “daylight robbery” and said […]
The Oyo State Social Democratic Party, SDP candidate in the coming governorship election, Engr. Seyi Makinde has reaffirmed his resolve to contest the election under the platform of his party. Engr. Makinde, reacting to leaflets in circulation in parts of Ibadan that he would work with the incumbent governor Abiola Ajimobi, said it was […]