•Olumide Akpata The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, yesterday said he won’t challenge the result of the September 21 gubernatorial election. Akpata emerged third with 22, 763 votes in the election, reports Channels TV. He lost to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Monday Okpebholo, who raked i...
•Olumide Akpata The results from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Viewing Portal (iRev) indicated the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Edo Olumide Akpata is out of the race. Akpata lost his polling unit to his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Asue Iguodala, reports The Nation. According to resu...
•Ighodalo, Obi and Akpata A Political group, under the aegis of Obidients United For Equity, Justice, and Fairness has accused Mr Peter Obi for unilaterally adopting Olumide Akpata as standard bearer of Labour Party thereby jettison the principles of internal democracy. In a press release made available to our correspondent in Lokoja, the grou...
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Monday Okpebholo and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Dr Asue Ighodalo were yesterday absent at the debate organised by the Edo State Council Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) while the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Olumide Akpata, his Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) cand...
•Olumide Akpata The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, on Thursday joined the Edo State Labour Party (LP) Campaign Council for the September 21, Edo State governorship election to canvas for votes for the party’s flag bearer, Olumide Akpata. Governor Otti, while addressing the teeming crowd of LP supporters and members who received him, called...
•Olumide Akpata The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed an appeal filed by Kenneth Imansuangbon, seeking to disqualify Olumide Akpata as the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State. In the lead judgment delivered by Justice Okon Abang, the appellate court held among others, t...
•Olumide Akpata Labour Party (LP) candidate in the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, says he can’t be remote-controlled by any political benefactor or godfather if he wins the forthcoming poll. The former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said he is only answerable to the people of the state. ...
The Federal High Court sitting in Benin has dismissed a suit filed by Kenneth Imasuagbon, challenging the candidature of the Labour Party (LP) gubernatorial candidate, Olumide Akpata for the Edo State governorship race. The court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit, adding that the suit lacked merit and was based on specula...
•Olumide Akpata and Kenneth Imansuangbon A governorship aspirant of the Labour Party (LP), Kenneth Imansuangbon, has filed a suit at the Benin Federal High Court, seeking to void the election of the party’s candidate, Olumide Akpata, for the Edo State Governorship election scheduled for September this year. In suit No. FHC B/CS/26/2024 filed b...
•Akpata Ahead of the September 21 gubernatorial election in Edo, Olumide Akpata, the flag-bearer of the Labour Party (LP), has vowed to resist any attempt to rig the poll. He gave this assurance during an interactive session with OBIdients on X space titled “Vawulence Space: One-on-one with Olumide Akpata”, reports Nigerian Tribune. “I will do...
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