The Court of Appeal has reserved judgments in three appeals and a cross appeal filed in relations to the dispute over the governorship election held in Edo State on September 21, 2024, in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner. A three-member pan...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa The governorship election petitions tribunal for Ondo State November 16, 2024 gubernatorial election today began sitting in Akure, the state capital. Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), its candidate, Agboola Ajayi, through their attorney, Ishaka Dikko, filed petition against the declaration of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, ...
The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the conduct of the Ondo State governorship election on Saturday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), calling it ‘a sham’. The opposition party, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, yesterday, said it is reviewing the outcome of the poll, repor...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced November 8, 2025, as the date for the off-cycle governorship election in Anambra state in line with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022. Announcing this at a meeting with leaders of political parties today, INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said a formal notice for the e...
•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...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has opened its online portal for the accreditation of media organisations and journalists covering the upcoming Ondo State governorship election, set for November 16, 2024. INEC, in a statement released today by its National Commissioner and the Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Commi...
The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Rotimi Oyekanmi, has said that the commission has learnt its lessons. Oyekanmi stated this while analysing the Commission’s preparedness on the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State during an interview on Channels TV last night. He said ...
•Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (right) The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu alongside members of the commission on Thursday held an extraordinary meeting with political parties leaders at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja. The meeting focused on the Commission’s preparations for the upcoming Edo and ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that more than 44,000 polling and collation agents have been submitted by political parties for the upcoming Edo State governorship election. This information was disclosed in a press release issued today by the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education...
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said it has suspended its ongoing ward-to-ward campaigns across the state in solidarity with the ongoing nationwide protest against hunger and bad governance. This was announced in a press release signed by the Director General of the Edo PDP gubernatorial campaign council, Hon. Math...