•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...
The Peoples Democratic Party, yesterday, approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja to challenge the judgment of the Federal High Court nullifying its February 22 governorship primary in Edo State, which produced Asue Igbodalo as the party’s flag-bearer for the September 21 governorship election. The appellant, in an appeal hinged on 25 grounds, ...
•Edo PDP governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, today, declared the Peoples Democratic Party, February 22, 2024, primary election, that produced Asue Ighodalo as its governorship candidate invalid. Justice Ekwo made the declaration while delivering judgment in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/165/20...
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has approved the inauguration of new Governorship Election National Campaign Councils ahead of the Edo and Ondo states elections. The inauguration is set to take place tomorrow, Thursday, June 27, with plans to ensure victory in the upcoming elections. This was disclosed in a state...
Ahead of the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State, political parties and their candidates have intensified campaigns across the nooks and crannies of the state to woo voters. The political atmosphere in Edo State is that of scheming, horse-trading and jostling, as political parties and their candidates are not leaving any ston...
•Some of the contestants A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bamidele Oloyeloogun said the party will lose the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election if Saturday’s primary is not cancelled. Oloyeloogun stated this at a press conference in Akure yesterday. Recall that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa emerged as the candidate of AP...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa The Governor of Ondo State Lucky Aiyedatiwa has been declared the winner of the APC wards primary and the candidate of the party in the coming governorship election in the state. Aiyedatiwa amassed a total of 48,569 votes in the primaries while fellow contender, Mayowa Akinfolarin, polled 15,343 votes, with Olusola O...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has cleared all 16 aspirants for the Ondo Governorship primary on April 20. The seven-man Sen. Joshua Lidani-led Screening Committee gave all the aspirants the nod to contest the primary, reports The Nation. The exercise took place on Friday after inauguration of the Screening Committee and the Screen...

