•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 polls, Peter Obi, has said the reported N744,500,000 his campaign team spent on the 2023 election litigation was not just for paying lawyers, as some have reported. He said this yesterday in a statement signed on his behalf by Dr Yunusa Tanko, […]
•Ighodalo A Lagos-based lawyer, Asue Ighodalo has been declared the winner of another factional primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State. Ighodalo defeated nine other contenders in the election held today, Thursday, February 22, reports The Nation. He received 577 votes to become the party’s nominee for the September 2024 pol...
•Philip Shaibu The deputy governor of Edo State, Phillip Shaibu, has emerged as the winner in a factional primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2024 Edo governorship election. Shaibu won the parallel primaries with over three hundred and one votes. Meanwhile, the Governor Godwin Obaseki faction of the party is yet to […]...
•Governor Bassey Otu The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu, who is the chairman of Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC’s) governorship direct primary election, has disclosed that a fresh shadow poll would be conducted in the 192 wards, across the 18 local government areas of the state. Otu, who briefly addressed reporters ...
The Nigeria Police Force Zone 5 has released the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure. Abure and others were released on bail today around 2am, a spokesman for the police zone, Tijani Momoh, told our correspondent. Also, LP national spokesman, Obiora Ifoh, confirmed that the embattled national chairman, who was arrested by ...
•Peter Obi The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has condemned the “humiliating” arrest of the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure. Obi, in a string of posts on X (formerly Twitter), described as “pinnacle of rascality”, the manner at which Abure was arrested in Benin City, the Edo State […]...
The Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution has promised to complete the process in 24 months. The Chairman of the Committee, Sen.Barau Jibrin, said this at the inaugural meeting of the committee yesterday in Abuja, reports Vanguard. “It is important to note that the Committee is not constituted to rewrite the 1999 […]
•Apapa and Abure The Labour Party (LP) has decried the arrest of its national chairman, Barrister Julius Abure, by a combined team of police officers and operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) yesterday in Benin, Edo State. The national publicity secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, in a statement, shortly after videos of [&helli...
•LP National Secretary, Umar Farouk Leaders of the Labour Party yesterday arrived in Benin, the Edo State capital over the arrest of the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure. Abure was arrested yesterday by Police operatives of Zone 5 Benin for attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms, and related offences, reports Channels TV. Spea...
•Sacked Governor Uzodinma The All Progressives Congress National Working Committee has sacked Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, as Chairman of the Edo State Gubernatorial Election Committee. A revised list issued today and signed by Suleiman Argungu, National Organising Secretary of the party, announced Cross Rivers State Governor Bas...

