•Asuerinme Ighodalo and Monday Okpebholo Barely 24 hours after summoning parties to appear before it, copies of the purported judgment of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has flooded the internet. The Justice Wilfred Kpochi-led three-member tribunal had on March 3, reserved its judgment on the case the Peoples Democratic P...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives yesterday passed for second reading, a bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to make the Court of Appeal the final arbiter in disputes involving governorship, National and State House of assembly elections. The bill is among the 39 constitution amen...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has scheduled its governorship primary ahead of the November 8 general elections in Anambra for April 5. Chidi Chidebe, Chairman of party in the state disclosed this in a timetable made available to newsmen in Awka today. The timetable said congress to elect 3-man adhoc delegates from wards would hold [&helli...
•Dr Asue Ighodalo Four additional witnesses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today claimed that the conduct of the 2024 governorship election in Edo State was characterised by irregularities in some polling units in Esan North East, Oredo, Esan South East, and Esan Central Local Government Areas in the state. The development brings to 10 ...
Ahead of the November 16 governorship election in Ondo State, the Labour Party and its candidate, Chief Olusola Ebiseni, have rejected their exclusion from the list of participants of a debate organised for governorship candidates by Channels Television. Only two candidates, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressive Congress and Chief A...
The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has said that the Ondo people will elect a credible candidate on November 16 and protect their votes because Ondo is not Lagos or Edo. NNPP National Chairman, Ajuji Ahmed, said this in Akure, yesterday, during the party’s campaign flag-off for its governorship candidate, Olugbenga Edema, reports Vanguard. A...
•PDP candidate, Agboola Ajayi Ahead of the November 16 governorship election in Ondo State, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party today flagged off its campaign in the state. Hundreds of the party faithful converged on Oyemekun Road, Akure, the state capital, in different branded party uniforms and fez caps amid fanfare, reports Th...
•Okpebholo Monday Okpebholo, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has emerged victorious in the Edo State governorship election held yesterday. According to the results from 18 local government areas (LGAs) announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today, Okpebholo secured a total of 291,667 votes, repo...
•Security operatives Less than 48 hours to the governorship election in Edo State, there is heavy presence of police personnel in Benin, the state capital. The heavy presence of security personnel caused traffic gridlock in some areas of the state capital where security personnel from the Nigeria Police and other security agents were seen stat...
•Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare The Edo State Government yesterday raised the alarm over alleged indiscriminate arrest of leaders of the Peoples DemocratÂic Party (PDP) by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) on false accusations ahead of the September 21 governorship elecÂtion in the state. The state...

